URBAN HARVEST FARM AT UJIMA …
GOOD FOOD EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN IN EAST NEW YORK, BROOKLYN
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Slow Food NYC is dedicated to Good,
Clean, and Fair Food for All. We believe that everyone
has the right to ample, culturally meaningful, delicious food that is good for
human health and well-being, the planet, and those who labor to bring food to
our tables.
We bring these values to Urban Harvest Farm at Ujima, our tuition-free, educational, urban farm in East New York, Brooklyn.
East New York suffers limited availability of fresh, wholesome food and
disproportionate incidences of diet-related disease - obesity and diabetes. Your
financial support of Urban Harvest at Ujima will help us EXPAND and IMPROVE the educational experiences
we can provide to help meet these challenges.
ABOUT URBAN HARVEST AT UJIMA
In 2010, Slow Food NYC turned an abandoned community
garden into a thriving educational urban farm - bringing a little more beauty, good
and clean food, and laughter and learning into the neighborhood.
Urban
Harvest at Ujima is a safe, secure place where children are provided with a
structured, five-day program of hands-on gardening experiences, age
appropriate food and farming focused lessons and activities, nutrition
education, and communal good food preparation and enjoyment... experiences that
help prepare them to make healthy choices, lead healthy lives, and act for the
health of their families and community.
WE HAVE BIG PLANS FOR UJIMA THIS
SUMMER AND YOU CAN HELP!
With the
support of community partners and supporters, like YOU, we will continue to
dedicate our time and passion to this important work because we believe that
learning about and experiencing Good, Clean, and Fair Food in a convivial
atmosphere has great impact on children.
Building upon the success of 2015, our goal is to EXPAND and IMPROVE the
educational experiences we can provide at Ujima. The funds raised through this campaign will
go towards:
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Farming an additional, near-by lot
and erecting hoop houses to increase the amount of good, clean food we can grow
and bringing laying hens and honey bees to the farm;
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Expanding farm operation hours to
incorporate afternoon gardening opportunities for senior citizens (providing
inter-generational education opportunities for the children);
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Developing a “food box” program to
provide fresh vegetables and herbs (and flowers for the table) to each Student
and Senior Farmer each week;
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Conducting a weekly Student
Farmer-operated, community farm-stand.
Our plans are ambitious and will come to fruition with YOUR SUPPORT!
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP
Slow Food NYC is run entirely, with love and dedication, by
volunteers and 100% of the funds raised for Urban Harvest at Ujima are used for
farm operation. Here
is what your contributions can help accomplish:
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$25 can help
stock the cupboard with food preparation staples;
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$150 can help buy a new pop-up tent to cover our “farm stand”;
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$250 can build a
new hoop house to extend the growing season or a new chicken coop for laying
hens;
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$500 can
compensate a neighborhood high school youth to work as a Student Farmer Peer Mentor
for a month, during July or August;
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$1,000 can help provide Student Farmers with lunch, prepared with fresh,
seasonal, local, ingredients, for a month during July or August;
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$1,200 can help build new raised planting beds at a new farm site.
The Impact
During the summer of 2015, Student
Farmers:
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Planted and tended 60 varieties of vegetables, herbs, and flowers;
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Harvested about 150
pounds of herbs, salad and cooking greens, and other vegetables;
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Prepared lunch together every day,
incorporating fresh food from the farm (about
2,000 snacks and lunches, largely plant-based, were prepared and enjoyed);
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Composted about
175 pounds of plant material and food scraps; and
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Increased, while
at the farm, the number of fruits and vegetables they consumed daily by about
100%.
Check this for more about Urban Harvest
at Ujima 2015 - http://www.slowfoodnyc.org/download/sfnyc-uh-2015-report.pdf
Other Ways You Can Help
Don't forget to use the Indiegogo share tools to tell
your friends about us! please like us on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Ujima-Garden-192106040837994/ and https://www.facebook.com/SlowFoodNYC/
CONTACT US
We would LOVE to tell you more about what we do and how important Ujima
is to the community. E-mail Dee Dee
Tiller – deedeertiller@gmail.com - for more
information!
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