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Cook healthy? Chef? Join our Heart Healthy Chef Night for Families

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ORGANIZATION: Seeds in the Middle

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Chef Night

Seeking people with a passion for cooking fresh and healthy.

On Friday, July 25th, we are doing a special project at the Seeds in the Middle Community Action Spot at 318 Rogers Ave., Brooklyn, NY

One of our team who is a specialist in heart health will do a powerpoint about the heart and the impact of diet on the heart and then do a trivia game of what people learned.

We'd like to have a heart healthy cooking right after. In this, people of all ages - families, too - can divide up and make different fresh dishes like salads, soup, pasta, fresh fruit dessert or whatever you wouldl ike to suggest in our space.

We need chefs to lead those activities - or cook for us for the evening and then lead the families in a demo on how to make the dishes.

Does this interest you? This is a family-friendly event.

If you would just like to come to the event and cook with us, we will have a sign up soon. The event will be 5-10pm. This will not be a free event as proceeds will support the charity and costs of the food and space.

If you would like to volunteer, please email us at info@seedsinthemiddle.org and tell us your experience and what heart healthy dish you would propose. Prep can start at 3pm.

Seeds in the Middle will provide all fresh ingredients.

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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

Community
Health & Medicine
Hunger
Community, Health & Medicine, Hunger

WHEN

Fri Jul 25, 2025
03:00 PM - 09:00 PM

WHERE

SIMCA Spot318 Rogers Ave.Brooklyn, NY 11225

(40.66569,-73.95393)
 

DATE POSTED

June 28, 2025

SKILLS

  • Cooking / Catering
  • Event Management
  • Food & Beverage Services
  • Food Service
  • Healthcare

GOOD FOR

  • Kids
  • Teens
  • People 55+
  • Public Groups
  • Private Groups

REQUIREMENTS

  • This is a Done in a Day opportunity and there is no prior training or ongoing commitment needed.
  • Must be at least 18
  • At least 4 hours
  • Love to cook, preferably have a food handlers license or be a chef, but you can just be someone who wants to share passion

Private Group Details

  • Group Size Range 1 - 10
  • Event can be held at organization location(s)
  • Donation Requested
  • If you are going to eat with us or just enjoy the event, then we require a donation.

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