Thursday, July 10, 2014

Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Farmers Markets Open! Summer Soccer/Basketball for Kids!

Join us!
Farmers Markets 
Fun Fitness for Kids and Adults 
Crown Heights Farmers Market 
TODAY 1-6 pm, Hamilton Metz Field
 Prospect Park markets Friday & Saturday
EBT, SNAP, WIC/FMNP
$2 Free Health Bucks for $5 EBT spent
TODAY - welcome RH Farms to Brooklyn!
EBT, SNAP, WIC, FMNP, Health Bucks accepted at all markets! Get $2 free for every $5 EBT spent.
Fresh-picked kale, corn, carrots, beets, spring onions, potatoes, plums, peaches, tomatoes, lettuces... more.
We're in Crown Heights, corner of Albany & Lefferts Aves. Click here for location
Kids, teens! Sign up for summer sports camps & activities. Come for soccer and basketball. Ride the blender bike. Enjoy fresh juices at the Hip2B Healthy Market. Free health screenings with Dr. Vida from SUNY Downstate.
PLAY BASKETBALL WITH THE NYPD TODAY
3:30 TO 6:30 PM
OPENING FRIDAY
Parkside Plaza Farmers Market

and....
OPENING SATURDAY
Prospect Park Farmers Market 
Featuring Brooklyn's own
Isabahlia Farms,  Mom and Pop's Natural Shop of Crown Heights and more....
Youth Soccer and Basketball Starts Today
Registration Always Open. Register here or at the market!

Hey, Mr. Long made it only a few blocks on the bike for Tour de Brooklyn! But our 340-lb Heavy Pedal Pusher has not given up his campaign for fresh food and fitness for kids!
Join guests this week for fitness every day at the markets!
Featuring Kaylan on Friday 12-3 - All ages! 

Did you our markets this week in the news? Click here!
See Brenda of Isabahlia Farms below.
SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAMS? Yes!
Sign up at the market or online here.
crown Heights Farmers Market c/o collive.com
 

                
CH Farmers Mkt - Cabbage Tomatoes  peaches
Dear Nancie,

    Crown Heights Farmers Market opens today from 1-6 pm at Hamilton Metz Park. Please support our wonderful RH Farms, trucking in two hours from New Jersey. More growers join Fridays and Saturdays.   Enjoy also fresh 50-cent snacks from our Hip2B Healthy kids.
      Kids! Play basketball today with the NYPD from 3:30 to 6:30 at the Crown Heights Market. Play soccer 3-6 pm. Parents, register here.
     We have exciting plans for our markets, powered by summer youth! We start with sports today. We'll add tutoring, cooking demos and all kinds of healthy, family and community fun activities at our markets. We'll soon welcome back Jamerican Farms with Rodrick's callaloo. Welcome, this Saturday,  Isabahlia Farms of Brownsville, BROOKLYN! See photos of their farm here! Along with vegetables and plums, they'll have farm fresh eggs!
Also - welcome Crown Heights' very own Chanel Cumberbatch with products from Mom and Pop's Natural Shop. Go, Brooklyn! More to come...
  • Thursdays - Crown Heights, Hamilton Metz Park, 1-6 
  • Fridays - Parkside Plaza at Parkside/Ocean Ave. 11-6  
  • Saturdays - Prospect Park at Empire/Flatbush Ave. 9-5 
  • Saturdays - Maybe Bed-Stuy! Stay tuned.                        
GET FREE HEALTH BUCKS - $$$$ FOR FARMERS MARKETS
DID YOU KNOW YOUR GROUP CAN GET up to $200 FREE HEALTH BUCKS TO SPEND AT FARMERS MARKETS?
APPLY NOW at the NYC Dept. of Health. IT'S EASY.
Call: 718-637-5220 or email: farmersmarket@health.nyc.gov
 CLICK HERE FOR INFO. Share flyer with every school, community group, places of worship, summer schools, daycare centers, anyone you know!

THANK YOU, GROSSE POINTE MEMORIAL CHURCH VOLUNTEERS, PS 770 AND PS 221 for the beautiful farmers market banners. Come see them & color them in!
THANK YOU, Summer Youth Employment Program for sending us this wonderful young people to power our markets! You'll see them at the markets.
We thank all our Soccer for Harmony - Crown Heights Cup players for a grand day of soccer. Who cares about the World Cup when you got the Crown Heights Cup?

Viva, Argentina!
(Okay: Go Germany, too!
 All donations go to all THREE farmers markets in Crown Heights and Prospect Lefferts, plus our Hip2B Healthy youth programs. All for harmony and beauty ... not violence.
SUMMER SPORTS 
NYPD BASKETBALL TODAY FOR ALL KIDS - 3:30-6:30 pm
Play soccer or basketball or.... join our first
Basketball/Soccer Camp: ages 8-12
Come to markets to register or
Call: 917-756-4202  
Email: info@seedsinthemiddle.org. 
Soccer: Thursday (today) 3 pm, Saturdays 1-3 pm, Sundays 4-6, pm, ages 3 & up, and Tuesdays 3 pm
We can add Tues/Thu/Fri ams, on demand! 
Basketball for grades 3, 4, 5, 6 - Tu., Th., Sat. 3:30-6:30 pm
You can also like each market on Facebook for updates.

 
These words are from Mr. Solomon Long,  340 lbs. He got on a bike to ride for fresh food. Soon, Mr. Long will be leading a weekly walk every Thursday for farmers markets & programs for underserved kids and against violence. 
Mr. Long is the retired principal of PS 91 in Crown Heights and he doesn't want kids today to grow up with NO access to fresh food or healthy activities so they die young from preventable diseases like diabetes and heart disease. 
Our markets feature not fresh produce and activities to build community. EBT/SNAP, WIC, FMNP, Health Bucks accepted. For as little as $20, we'll feature your name on our banners at our markets. Pledge more and we'll blast your business.  
     
 Folks Take Action for Their Community!
YES! For PS 221, they deserved more pre-K and thanks to the Dept. of Education, they got it! 
They are seeking one more class!

Yes, we agree education and employment and healthy youth activities fight gun violence!
   

Questions? Email us at info@seedsinthemiddle.org or call 917-756-4202.

Thanks to Assemblyman Karim Camara, Prospect Park Alliance, NYC Dept. of Transportation, NYC Dept. of Parks, NYC Street Activities Permit Office, USDA, NY state Agriculture and Markets, City Councilwomen Laurie Cumbo and Darlene Mealy, Public Health Solutions, Chef Saul Bolton, all our chefs and gardeners, the summer youth and the Grosse Pointe Memorial Church volunteers of Michigan and all who are helping us in every which way to get our markets up and our kids active and healthy. We are so very, very grateful to you.

See you at the markets and the field!

Sincerely,
Seeds in the Middle
Crown Heights Soccer Eagles
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