Inspiring social change through sustainable health   News/Upcoming Events     Hip2B Healthy Field Day Soccer, relays, potato sack races, anyone? Dozens of kids and parents raced to be fit at our Hip2B Healthy Fun Field Day at Hamilton Metz Field. SUNY Downstate was there for free health screenings. State Farm Insurance gave out water bottles and balls for prizes. They’re donating our soccer jerseys! After hours of active fun, kids and adults alike delighted in delicacies prepared by parents and supporters. See our photos. Let’s Cook with the Ivy League Who was preparing delicious salads in the Yale Club kitchen this month? Students from PS 91! After a tour of the Yale Club, Chef Charles Kehrli – along with his fellow chefs – guided fourth and fifth graders into creating carrot, cucumber and green bean salads and guacamole. They examined each other’s tastebuds with magnifying glasses and lifted 10 pounds of lard, just to get the point across! For some students, it was the first time in Manhattan, or meeting a wax green bean! Those frozen grapes were delicious. Many thanks to Chef Kehrli. See our photos. Look who’s Supporting Us! Thank you, Sue Torres, Suenos’ chef and owner! Sue taught a Saturday cooking class how to press their own tortillas, concoct her special Pico de Gallo & Guacamole and more at her colorful, Chelsea eatery. Then she donated the proceeds of the May 8th class to us! To learn more about Suenos, check out suenosnyc.com. Bike New York agrees it’s Hip2B Healthy! Yes, we can! For the first-time ever, moms and kids got to ride in the Bike NY 5-Boro Bike Tour on Sunday, May 2. Leila and Nathalie, who both survived the Haiti earthquake, were thrilled. They couldn't do the whole 42 miles. But they're inspired to next year. They plan to be ready to roll come 2011. Thanks to Ken Podziba of Bike NY for the free passes and Matthew Modine, for donated bikes! See our photos. You can still sponsor our kids! Click here. Home Depot concurs: Every child can garden! Their crew custom built 44 indoor planting tables so every child in every classroom has a chance to grow and learn where food comes from. We painted, lined and planted seeds to be ready for spring. Thank you, Home Depot Heroes. Let’s Cook! Our French Culinary Institute student chefs wow'ed parents and kids at a cooking demo and dinner party for us, right in a school cafeteria. Featuring recipes from top chefs, we learned to prepare healthy, haute cuisine for a family for less than one fast food combo meal and dine in style. See our photo. School Chefs roll out new nutritious menu items this month, using only Department of Education School Food ingredients. First on the menu: North African Gumbo. Worms, worms everywhere! Keep posted for composting workshops. Get Fit! Have Fun! Sponsor our new soccer players and runners! Spring soccer opens.   Seeds in the Middle, named by fourth graders in central Brooklyn, inspires parents, educators, students and their community to access all the opportunities New York City has to offer, beginning with improving their health, enhancing arts education and greening their environment. We are joyful, respectful, educational and engaging. Our innovative strategy to fight obesity initiates at public and private elementary, middle and high schools. We weave together an array of proven programs into a comprehensive package to turn around ills driving down opportunity and advancement. We empower and educate all to get healthy and scale educational and social disparities. Our pilot is Public School 91 in Crown Heights, a neighborhood with one of the city’s highest obesity, diabetes, and heart disease rates. We teach how to grow, how to market, how to access and prepare nutritious food, how to exercise, how engage in the arts, all the elements needed to promote life-changing lifelong health. Our partners come from all walks of life: chefs, athletes, educators, artists, builders and more. We cross cultures. We transform gray into green, destitution into inspiration.   Hip2B Healthy     The school chef and her team at PS 91 entered a citywide contest for healthiest recipe using only ingredients supplied by the Department of Education’s School Food. Click here to download recipes.   What People Say     “I was born and raised in Crown Heights. I weigh over 300 pounds. I was raised on food served by chains like Wendy’s and McDonald’s. I know better, but these places are cheap and convenient. We the adults have to save our children from their nutritionally bad habits by educating ourselves and then educating them. Our children and ourselves have the highest rates of obesity, diabetes and heart disease in the country! We must change this. Please help us fight this monster in our community.” -Former Principal Solomon Long Read more...           Sign Up for Our Newsletter! Enter your e-mail address below to sign up for our newsletter:   Join Us On Facebook       Seeds in the Middle, PO Box 310752, Brooklyn, NY 11231  |  Phone: 917-697-3745  |  E-mail: info@seedsinthemiddle.org Designed by the The Mardiney Group, Inc.