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Seeds in the Middle:

Nancie L. Katz, Executive Director

Solomon Long, Director of Education

Joseph Cabral, Director of Soccer/Lead Coach

Errol Rose, Director of Sports/Community Outreach

Clara Kirkland, Principal, Public School 221, pilot Hip2B Healthy School

Richard J. Gordon, MD, FACC, Medical and Scientific Advisor


Brooklyn Crown Eagles:

Joseph Cabral, Director of Soccer/Lead Coach

Errol Rose, Community Outreach Coordinator, Chair - Soccer for Harmony

Zoe Schweitzer, Volunteer Coordinator

Rachel Bogin, Volunteer Soccer Coach

Mordechai Roth, Co-Director, Community Outreach



We say it's Hip2B Healthy! What is your favorite logo?

Bronx Community College Students captured our spirit and designed Hip2B Healthy logos. Our students are voting on them.

How about you?

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BCH

Youth Indoor Soccer Starts this Sunday

Ages 2 1/2 years to 12




LOOK AT WHAT WE'RE DOING!

Thanks to all who made our first Soccer for Harmony event a success!

Special thanks to the law offices of Richard Wright for his generous donation and to Modell's. Thank you, 71st Precinct and Community Affair Officer Vincent Martinos, Crown Heights Jewish Community Council President Eli Cohen, 71st Community Council President Karl Cohen, Sen. Eric Adams, Mendy's Deli, Joya Restaurant, Soya Food, and many more...

Get 15 percent off certificates now! Photos coming soon.

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And thank you, vendors and jazz artist Richard Miller and friends, for a festive crafts fair at PS 221. Stay tuned for the next chance to buy exquisite handmade gifts from talent like Evelyn Dorell, Lillian Brown, Dallas & Dynasty and more...


Healthy Fundraising Expo Students


We welcome our first Hip2B Healthy ambassadors! See them at the first Healthy School Fundraising Expo.



Chef Brian


Let's thank Chef Brian Ray, for his tips on how to cook healthy, deliciously, nutritiously and joyfully.



Thank you, Right To Dream USA, for the cocktail party for our soccer kids at Seeds in the Middle! Stay tuned for our indoor winter programs!



Farmer's Market Last Day
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Thank you to all who enjoyed our Crown Heights Farmers Market! Check out our mention in Bed-Stuy Patch!

See our last day at Hamilton Metz Field as PS 221 students visit and question farmers!




Harvest Day - 2011
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Thank you to all who participated in our Annual Harvest Day at PS221!



FDNY Chef's Night
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Thanks, Firefighter Khalid Baylor for the best firefighter Chef's Night we ever had. You wow'ed the families with that sautéed broccoli and fancy meatballs at PS 221 on our first Chef's Night of the school year.




Tastes of Brooklyn

A heartfelt thanks to all of our generous restaurants, donors, and supporters at the first-ever Field-to-Fork TASTES of Brooklyn event! As the steel pan played, our chefs served glorious delicacies. We are so grateful. See our photos at Brooklyn Exposed!



NEWS

Saturday Summer Soccer Anyone?NEW INDOOR WINTER SOCCER!
GET YOUR UNIFORMS!
Calling all boys and girls! Winter soccer, starting in December at Hamilton Metz Field, Albany/Lefferts Aves. Introducing Pro Coach Joe, of Portugal! Boys/Girls: After-School and Sundays! Sign up at PS 221, 791 Empire Blvd, at the field or at the Farmers Market. ADULTS! SUNDAYS PAY TO PLAY AND SUPPORT US - Sundays, 2:30 to 3:30 PM. Parent volunteer coaches welcome!

GIRLS ONLY/BOYS ONLY SOCCER
Girls Only: K-6 - 1-2 PM. Boys Only: GRADES K-6 - 4-5 PM! Download registration form. Sign up at the field.

DOWNLOAD ALL SPORTS REGISTRATION FORMS HERE.


ZUMBA! WOMEN ONLY!
Let's move! Adult and family zumba classes every Wednesday, starting Oct. 12 at PS 221 gym, 791 Empire Blvd btw Troy and Schenectady. All welcome! $5 a class! Bring registration form to the first class! FLYER | CHILD REGISTRATION FORM | ADULT REGISTRATION FORM


Crown Heights Farmer Rodrick Brown and PS 221!
We welcome Jamerican Farmer Brown as our resident farmer at our first Hip2B Healthy School - PS 221! Students will be growing food year-round with Farmer Brown, with those beautiful tables they painted, thanks to Home Depot! And, thanks to farmer Brown, PS 221 for the first time is composting outdoors!


We welcome our first Hip2B Healthy ambassadors!
See them at the first Healthy School Fundraising Expo.

First-ever Crown Heights Farmers Market
We're closed for the winter but be sure to check us out again in September 2012! Join us every Thursday for the festive Crown Heights Farmers Market! We opened Sept. 15 and it's been packed ever since! We're growing fast - featuring Iona Hill, NJ Farmer Roy Hildebrant, Jamerican Farmer Roderick Brown and now Red Jacket Orchards. Fresh produce for sale every Thursday from 1:30-7 pm through November at Hamilton Metz Park, Albany/Lefferts Aves., Brooklyn. WIC, EBT, SNAP, FMNP WELCOME! All donations welcome as we are new, needed, but unfunded! Please donate at Seeds in the Middle (click here). Click here to see us on NY1 News. Click here to see us on the blogs and in the news. Join us on Facebook.

SPONSOR A Hip2B HEALTHY KID?
$50 will pay for one child to play winter soccer or flag football! Please give! You can make a difference right here in NYC! Send a child a message!



ADVISORY BOARD
Seeds in the Middle thanks these distinguished New Yorkers for joining our advisory board!

David Appel, MD, director of Montefiore Medical Center's School Health Program, named by New York Magazine as one of New York's "influentials."

Jimmy Bradley, chef/owner of top-rated Manhattan restaurants, The Red Cat and The Harrison

Fern Gale Estrow, a Registered Dietitian and founder of The FGE Food and Nutrition Team, whose focus is improving health and quality of life through integration of programs affiliated with food, nutrition education, clinical support, media literacy, and/or policy development.

Robert Karp, MD, Professor of Pediatrics at SUNY-Downstate Medical Center and author of "A Teacher's Guide to Pediatric Nutrition."

Yale Club Chef Charles Kehrli

Mary Leou, Ph.D, Director of the Wallerstein Collaborative for Urban Environmental Education at NYU, and Director of the Environmental Conservation Education Program in the Department of Teaching and Learning. (Dr. Leou has over 20 years of experience in urban environmental education. She has received numerous grants to develop school programs, teacher education initiatives, and environmental curricula. She is the former Chair of the Environmental Education Advisory Council and serves on numerous boards in the metropolitan area including Nature Network, Metro Forest Council and a member of the NYS Outdoor Education Association's Environmental Literacy Committee.)

Sue Torres, chef/owner of top-rated Manhattan restaurant, Suenos


Thanks to all our generous donors! Aetna Foundation, Citizens Committee of NYC, Home Depot, Whole Foods Market, Modell's, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, all our volunteer chefs and more…

 


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 schools are 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 to 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.







Soccer for Harmony was a resounding success!

Mendy's Deli Won!

Photos to come soon

Brooklyn
Crown Heights
Eagles
Indoor Winter Soccer

Sign up for January now!


seeds-soccer

Who: All kids, toddlers and up!

Where: PS221, 791 Empire Blvd, Btw Troy and Schenectady

When: Wednesdays and Sundays - December 11, 2011 to Wednesday, Feb. 15 2012


SUNDAYS

GIRLS ONLY - 1:00 to 3:00 PM - Grades K-2: 1-2 PM - Grades 3-6: 2-3 PM

AGES 2.5 TO 3.5 YEARS - 3:00-4:00 PM

BOYS ONLY - 4:00-6:00 PM - Grades K-2: 4-5 PM - Grades 3-6: 5-6 PM

WEDNESDAYS

Grades K-6 - CO-ED: 3:15 TO 4:10 PM
GIRLS ONLY: 4:10 to 5:10 PM - BOYS ONLY 5:10 to 6:10 PM

download the registration form | download the soccer informational flyer | download our events flyer
Hip2B Healthy
A school chef and her team entered a citywide contest for healthiest recipe using only ingredients supplied by the Department of Education’s School Food.



Click here to download recipes.




Testimonials

Solomon Long, Former Public School Principal
I have been a principal in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, for nineteen years. I was born and raised in Crown Heights. I was quite concerned when NY1 showed the statistics on where the highest obesity was in the city.
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Georgia Goldendoodle says get a pup a bone!
Georgia thanks Carlo, her fav' Italian guy (may he rest in peace), for those absolutely, scrumptious to die for all-natural beef bones. They’re Georgia and Carlo’s Canine Cuisine. And you can get them from us for your favorite canine guy or gal! “I just go crazy over them,” says Georgia. “Friend me on Facebook: Georgia Goldendoodle.”






Grantors

Aetna Foundation Bronx Health
 
   
 
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