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Healthy Chefs! Cook/teach at low-income schools/communities in food deserts
ORGANIZATION: Seeds in the Middle
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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39 people are interested
Seeds in the Middle is dedicated to erasing food deserts in NYC, particularly central Brooklyn and it all comes back to empowering the local community to create the change they want to see - with support from us!
We have a series of community and school-run farm markets and edible gardens and we are opening more.
We also host one-off Chef Nights, when chefs come into the school kitchen and work with students to prepare a healthy, delicioius meal for the same cost as a fast food combo.
This is a weekday afternoon from 4-8 pm.
These are our schools at this map: bit.ly/seedsinthemiddlemap
We also can use support at our school and community-run farm stands for cooking demos in neighborhoods lacking nutritious ,delicious options.
Are you a healthy chef? Do you like to cook fresh and healthy and want to share? Do you spend time crafting recipes using fresh ingredients to empower lucky eaters to build their immune systems and enjoy a healthy life?
Would you like to work with community members to create menus and craft cafes tied to local schools, businesses and other possiiilities. If so, please reach out.
Times are flexible.
Our school markets are across Brooklyn, Bronx, even lower East Side. Commitment would be one afternoon.
If you want to develop a series of cooking classes with fresh ingredients with students, and can offer a curriculum, please let us know.
Our biggest days for markets are Wednesday, Thursdays, Fridays.
Coming soon - other weekend markets in Flatbush, Brownsville, Crown Heights - we hope if you can volunteer.
We also welcome you to vollunteer with kids at our spring Tastes of Brooklyn food and drink crawl.
Please go to the web link to tell us what you can do: bit.ly/seedsvolunteersignup
Learn more about our locations by going to linktr.ee/seedsinthemiddle
Questions: email info@seedsinthemiddle.org
Please send any responses to that email address and tell us about you, what you can cook, when you can cook and anything you would like us to know.
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About Seeds in the Middle
Location:
153 Warren Street, BROOKLYN, NY 11201, US
Mission Statement
Seeds in the Middle partners with students, educators, parents & their communities to access all opportunities, beginning with improving health, enhancing arts education and greening their environment. We empower and educate all to get healthy and scale educational and social disparities. Our pilot schools are in central Brooklyn, a neighborhood with among the city’s highest obesity, diabetes, and heart disease rates. We teach how to grow, market, cook, access and prepare fresh food, how to exercise & engage in the arts, all the elements needed to promote life-changing lifelong health. Our volunteers come from all walks of life. We cross cultures. We transform gray into green, destitution into inspiration.
Description
Seeds in the Middle offers joyful, healthy interventions that nurture the whole child and address the multiple obstacles blocking low-income children and families from getting healthy. We teach how to grow edible gardens, run a student-led Hip2B Healthy Market, bring chefs into schools, started soccer, running and fitness programs at school and in the community and music and arts in the schools. We integrate professional development for teachers so that a healthy lifestyle and environmental stewardship becomes organic and sustainable in the school community. To build community, we created Soccer for Harmony tournaments and the Crown Heights Farmers Market. In two years, we have engaged more than 1,000 families, and students and teachers report changing their habits to include more fruits and vegetables, and fitness. This is a pilot for any school and Seeds in the Middle plans to replicate.
CAUSE AREAS
Children & Youth,
Education & Literacy,
Hunger
WHEN
Tue Mar 18, 2025 - Mon Jun 16, 2025
12:00 PM - 06:00 PM
WHERE
Multiple locations , NY 11225
(40.66483 ,-73.95656 )
DATE POSTED
March 19, 2025
SKILLS
- Youth Services
- Environmental Education
- Cooking / Catering
- Baking
- Nutrition
- Food & Beverage Services
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
- Public Groups
REQUIREMENTS
- two hours a week, TBD - try to commit to a series of at least 4.
- Be reliable.