SUMMER YOUTH PARTY at the High School for Public Service Farm! Friday, August 13th, 11am-2:30pm (600 Kingston Avenue)
Come celebrate a successful summer on the farm and meet the teens who helped make it all possible! Find out why kale salad is the teens favorite meal on the farm! The party is sponsored by Global Kids through a DYCD grant to highlight the work Global Kids has done this summer on the farm.
11:00am to 12:00pm Welcome by GK Leaders and the Mayor's office
12:00pm to 1:00pm Student-led activities/demos such as sowing seeds, cooking, healthy choices, nutrition, diseases, etc
1:00pm to 1:30pm Lunch and Music
1:30pm to 2:15pm Student-led Entertainment
Come hear what our teens have to say about the farm: our teens will be supporting Global Kids during this party with cooking demonstrations and farm tours, but our teens have tackled so much more on the farm this summer! They have worked with Brooklyn Food Coalition to map local food access in the neighborhood; they have worked with the teens at East New York Farms!; they have visited Boswyck Farms to learn about hydroponics; they have cleaned out our chicken coop; they have participated in food justice, communiciation, and horticulture workshops; they have cooked numerous community meals on the farm; and they have worked our farmers market selling fresh produce to the community. Our Summer Youth Employment Progarm is in partnership with the High School for Public Service, Expeditionary Learning School for Community Leaders and their Growing Leaders program.
If you have a Summer Youth Employment program and you would like to participate in this Friday's event, please let us know ahead of time.
Visit the BK Farmyards website for more information on how you can get involved in the program.
Summer Volunteer Schedule at the High School for Public Service Youth Farm (600 Kingston Avenue, corner of Winthrop)
Every 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month: 10am - 4pm
Plenty of digging, planting, seeding, building, and painting to do! Stay for an hour or stay the whole day! Who wants to get out of the city for the 4th of July weekend when you could come see the farm. What to bring: closed toe shoes, water, and lunch / snacks
WANT BK FARMYARDS PRODUCE! Market Stand 3:30-7:00pm every Wednesday (600 Kingston Avenue)
Either come to our market stand or sign up for our Farmshare CSA program to recieve weekly shares of produce all season long We got carrots and collards and callaloo...and those are only our C's.
Hear what the Students have to say about their new farm
We are still working on getting titles into the video, but the people interviewed in order of apearance are: Bee Ayer (Farm Manager), Kassandra (Farm Club), Stacey Murphy (Education Coordinator), Danielle (Visiting Farmer from neighboring high school, Natacha (Human Rights Class), Genthy (Farm Club). And NO, I did not pay Natacha to say that!
Big Thank You to Mike O'Brian for filming and editing for us.
Watch the Chicken Coop Come to Life
In a 3-part video series, Leave it Better 's Graham Meriwether has done an amazing job at capturing the sounds and the action around the building of the chicken coop, the completion of the chicken coop, and the life of the chickens at Imani Garden. Special thanks to NYRP for a great roosting place! Don't forget to come to our Urban Chicken Keeping workshops in partnership with NYRP and Just Food!