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Urban Harvest: Good Food Education for NYC Kids

Urban Harvest at Ujima provides hands on food experiences that prepare kids to make healthy choices.

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Urban Harvest: Good Food Education for NYC Kids

Urban Harvest: Good Food Education for NYC Kids

Urban Harvest: Good Food Education for NYC Kids

Urban Harvest: Good Food Education for NYC Kids

Urban Harvest: Good Food Education for NYC Kids

Urban Harvest at Ujima provides hands on food experiences that prepare kids to make healthy choices.

Urban Harvest at Ujima provides hands on food experiences that prepare kids to make healthy choices.

Urban Harvest at Ujima provides hands on food experiences that prepare kids to make healthy choices.

Urban Harvest at Ujima provides hands on food experiences that prepare kids to make healthy choices.

Slow Food NYC
Slow Food NYC
Slow Food NYC
Slow Food NYC
2 Campaigns |
New York, United States
$7,392 USD 108 backers
73% of $10,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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URBAN HARVEST FARM AT UJIMA …
GOOD FOOD EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN IN EAST NEW YORK, BROOKLYN

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:

  -  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;

-  Expanding farm operation hours to incorporate afternoon gardening opportunities for senior citizens (providing inter-generational education opportunities for the children);

-  Developing a “food box” program to provide fresh vegetables and herbs (and flowers for the table) to each Student and Senior Farmer each week;

-  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:

  -  $25 can help stock the cupboard with food preparation staples;

  -  $150 can help buy a new pop-up tent to cover our “farm stand”;

  -  $250 can build a new hoop house to extend the growing season or a new chicken coop for laying hens;

  -  $500 can compensate a neighborhood high school youth to work as a Student Farmer Peer Mentor for a month, during July or August;

  -  $1,000 can help provide Student Farmers with lunch, prepared with fresh, seasonal, local, ingredients, for a month during July or August;

  -  $1,200 can help build new raised planting beds at a new farm site.

The Impact

During the summer of 2015, Student Farmers:

  -  Planted and tended 60 varieties of vegetables, herbs, and flowers;

  -  Harvested about 150 pounds of herbs, salad and cooking greens, and other vegetables;

  -  Prepared lunch together every day, incorporating fresh food from the farm (about 2,000 snacks and lunches, largely plant-based, were prepared and enjoyed);

  -  Composted about 175 pounds of plant material and food scraps; and

  -  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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Farm Education Supporter

$10 USD
There is no better feeling than contributing to both community and education for NYC children. We cannot thank you enough. Your name will be listed as a special thank you on Slow Food NYC's website.
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Good Food Education Supporter

$25 USD
Thank you for supporting good food education and farming for children this summer! Your name will be listed on Slow Food NYC's website personally thanking you for your contribution
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SLOW FOOD NYC COFFEE MUG

$150 USD
You will receive a Slow Food NYC two-tone coffee mug. Your name will be listed on Slow Food NYC's website personally thanking you for your contribution
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SLOW FOOD NYC APRON

$250 USD
This will build a new hoop house to extend our growing season, or build a chicken coop for laying hens. As a small token of gratitude, you will receive a custom Slow Food NYC kitchen apron. Your name will be listed on Slow Food NYC's website personally thanking you for your contribution
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PRODUCE BOX

$400 USD
This will allow us to build a new raised planting bed at our new farm site. As a small token of our gratitude, you will receive a hand-picked box of seasonal produce harvested directly from Ujima Farm (pick-up to be arranged). Your name will also be listed on Slow Food NYC's website personally thanking you for your contribution
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STUDENT ARTWORK

$500 USD
This will compensate a neighborhood high school youth for their work as a Farmer Peer Mentor for a month. As a small token of gratitude, you will receive original farm-inspired artwork by the Ujima students. Your name will also be listed on Slow Food NYC's website personally thanking you for your contribution
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LUNCH ON THE FARM FOR 2

$1,000 USD
This will provide Student Farmers with lunch, prepared with fresh, seasonal, local, ingredients, for a full month! As a token of our appreciation, you and a friend will be invited to lunch on the farm with the children (prepared with fresh ingredients harvested on the farm). Your name will also be listed on Slow Food NYC's website personally thanking you for your contribution.
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