The Hattie Carthan Community Farmers Market
The Hattie Carthan Community Farmers Market is a volunteer based and led community revitalization project in Central Brooklyn NYC . The community farmers market is located on Clifton Place at Marcy Avenue directly behind the Hattie Carthan Community Garden. The market runs Saturdays 9am - 3pm from July - November increasing fresh food access to low-income community residents in a neighborhood classified as a "Fresh Food Desert."
The community revitalization project led by Yonnette Fleming, V.P. of the Hattie Carthan Community Garden and founder of the market began in March 2009 when Fleming received permission from the NYC Dept of Parks and Recreation to clear, design and utilize the lot which was used as a thriving dumping ground for over twenty years as a community farmers market. Fleming immediately mobilized thirteen Hattie Carthan Garden members to vision together and create the market of their dreams.
Come Visit the Hattie Carthan Community Farmers Market! The Market is located on Clifton Place at Marcy Avenue next to the Hattie Carthan Community Garden. Open Saturdays July - November from 9am - 3pm.
In our first market season alone (2009), over eight thousand pounds of fresh, local food was distributed to community residents. Those residents were also able to attend dozens of healthy eating and food justice workshops in the marketplace where they delved into preparation methods, eating for health disparities, the seasonality of foods and understanding community health and food justice. To visit the Hattie Carthan Community Garden's website CLICK HERE
The market is a multigenerational project which engages neighborhood youths in urban agriculture, communication basics and entrepreneurship. In 2009 seven youth interns earned as they learnt about food in our first market season. The youths completed a three day garden to market training program led by the Project founder and were able to visit rural farms to learn and cultivate rural farm relationships.
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The Hattie Carthan Community Garden, located at Lafayette and Marcy Avenue, was formed in 1991 as a place where humans can expand their knowledge of plants and grow fresh food in Brooklyn. The garden has been a public space that is multigenerational and multicultural for over two decades in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn. The garden is named after a prominent Brooklyn environmentalist who was instrumental in planting over 1,500 trees in Brooklyn. In the mid-90s the garden received preserved landmark status as a result of the community's organizing efforts and became an Operation Greenthumb Parks & Recreation site. The Hattie Carthan Garden is an important public space with its own legacy and history. The garden is equipped with a recently built children's learning garden, mushroom patches, new chicken coops, a three bin composting system and vermicomposting system. There are currently 60 members on the books, 45 individual plots, a large herb garden, a host of flower beds and islands, and fruit trees (fig, peach, apple, plum, sour cherry and apricot). Two thirds of the garden is dedicated to food production.
In the greenhouse and coldframes, seeds are propagated and nurtured until planting time. The compost piles, created from food waste and other natural materials, contribute nutrients which are essential to building healthy soil. Chemical-free plant care, and permaculture principles demonstrate practical techniques for a variety of visitors.
Food grown in our hoophouse and designated market plots is sold in the market to ensure the market is a sustainable venture. Please stay tuned for the launch of our online food education site which encourages community health through seasonal and holistic approaches to food as opposed to nutritionism. www.healthyeatinginbedstuy.org
To learn more about the garden's legacy, Central Brooklyn icon Hattie Carthan, and our rules of engagement or to see a site map and read about our bi-laws CLICK HERE.
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CLICK HERE to download our 2009 Season Market Report
The Hattie Carthan Community Market seeks to enhance the quality of life in the Bedford Stuyvesant Central Brooklyn area by:
The Hattie Carthan Community Farmers Market is a volunteer based and led community revitalization project in Central Brooklyn NYC . Within the last six years alone, our garden has expanded its food security/environmental justice programming in order to advance community resilience to the issues of food insecurity and health disparities evident in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood by adding nutrition awareness and food security workshops, wellbeing workshops, intergenerational community councils, an international food and film festival which attracted well over three hundred community residents last year and cooking demonstrations with youth and senior populations.
In 2007, garden members came together to construct a professional hoophouse, which has increased our capacity to grow more fresh food and extend the growing season. The garden has recently reclaimed an abandoned land parcel which was used to dump toxic materials for over twenty years. Our new farmers market is located in that reclaimed lot.
If you are interested in supporting this Brooklyn based community revitalization project and want to see us continue to build capacity in this community space donate here: http://www.firstgiving.com/hattiecarthanmarket
All donations are tax deductible.
Farmer Application
Market Regulations
Nonprofit Application
Background:
Across the United and States, rates of obesity and diabetes are increasing dramatically, particularly within lower-income, African-American, and Latino communities. In New York City neighborhoods like Bedford Stuyvesant in Central Brooklyn, where a third of residents live in poverty, more than 12% of adults have diabetes, compared to 8% nationwide. In these settings, a growing body of research points to the intersection between low rates of consumption of healthy foods such as fruits, vegetables and whole grains and limited access to healthy choices as driving disease rates. Less than 8% of the primarily African-American and Latino residents in these communities report eating the recommended five or more servings of fruits or vegetables per day; twenty percent report eating none at all. The Hattie Carthan Community Market is a community solution to the issue of poor nutrition and food insecurity in our community.
Benefits:
Starting a farmers market in our neighborhood brings many benefits to farmers and community members. A farmers market is a direct opportunity to meet the people who grow your food. It also means that the quality of food and farm products is higher since they are grown locally. Farmers markets are social gathering places. We envision a thriving marketplace where food producers can share value added products grown on their gardens or farms, a place where food justice advocates inform residents about local food issues, a place where local community chefs host cooking demonstrations and a host of healthy eating programming. A place where our children and elders can conversate around food. A place where culturally appropriate foods are considered vital to community nutrition. A place that remembers the agricultural heritage of Bedford Stuyvesant; that contributes to the cultural, social and economic vitality of Brooklyn.
Garden officers
Treasurer
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Hattie Carthan Community Garden Mission:
Hattie Carthan Community Garden and La Cima: Experiential and Service Learning
The Hattie Carthan community garden is in its second year of partnership with La Cima to develop an interdisciplinary program that promotes science, social studies, and art through community engagement. The garden has embarked on cultivating sustainability and health from the primary years through the creation of a learning children's garden. The children's garden is fully equipped with a vermi-composting system, a childrens composter, mushroom patches,an old fashioned water pump and raised garden beds. We closely tie our garden-based learning with work being done by classroom teachers in school and relevant, ongoing community garden projects. Our garden curriculum will include topics such as trees, plants, animals, insects, impact of humans on the environment, recycling, neighborhood and community.
We believe that experiential learning is an important component of developing the whole child. Students must be provided with multiple
opportunities to make cross-disciplinary connections outside of the context of the traditional learning environment. It is in the real world
that we live and apply the content and critical thinking skills that we practice in school. Through our collaboration with the Hattie Carthan
Garden we fundamentally enhance the education of our students, while at the same time develop the next generation of community
activists. Together, we will help grow a network of people that are passionate and committed to the environment, sustainable living, and
community activism.
Partnership
The Garden provides the expertise of Yonnette Fleming, an experienced urban farmer and community educator to work with our scholars on a weekly basis. La cima provides the garden with opportunities to: expand their outreach in the community, teach neighborhood school children, develop new innovative curricula. Together,
we are pioneering a model school and urban farming program, which is addressing the needs of our school community and beyond. Bed-Stuy is
currently classified by the federal government as a fresh food desert. By addressing the quality of the healthy foods available, teaching our
scholars about where food comes from, and increasing the accessibility of fresh food to our scholars, we are significantly impacting them and
their families. In the long run, we are 1) increasing their life expectancy 2) reducing obesity in a neighborhood where childhood obesity is
prevalent 3) reducing heart disease 4) reducing diabetes 5) positively affecting the environment and hopefully changing the way we eat and live.
Service Center
Each week, we will have an opportunity to give back to the garden community, and to do any work and chores that are necessary to
keep the garden functioning properly. Mr. Kolajo, President and Ms. Yonnette Fleming, VP of the gardens board will be our point
people for indicating the types of service that are necessary in the garden.Types of service that we will do includes: Weeding, Mulching,
urning compost, Raking, Other projects, as needed. We expect our partnership to grow in the coming years. The youths are our future!
Commit to helping them grow.
Tribeca Teaches 2010 Food Documentary
Tribeca Teaches: Films in Motion is a program developed by the Tribeca Film Institute to bring the art of filmmaking into the classroom and enrich the educational experiences of students at schools in outlying communities. Since its launch in 2007, Tribeca Teaches has served hundreds of students through in-school and after-school, hands-on youth media programming. For 2010, the Tribeca Teaches participants put together Project Perception, several short documentaries based on issues important the youth filmmakers. A group of Brooklyn students created a documentary look at food access in their communities and
grassroots work around food. The youth visited Hattie Carthan to explore, film, and interview
Yonnette Fleming about the work she is doing at the Hattie Carthan Garden and Market to
increase food access in Bed-Stuy. The finished documentary was premiered at the Tribeca Film
Festival April 29, 2010.
Intergenerational Workshops and Cooking Demonstrations
Young adults and seniors also have the opportunity to learn in the garden during numerous Saturday gardening workshops, or by joining in for garden tours, cooking demonstrations, food and film festivals and activities. These hands-on courses cover all the basics of gardening and are taught by a knowledgeable master gardener. Each seasonal course provides participants with a practical understanding of how to tend to a beautiful and productive garden. In addition to gardening, we offer interactive demonstrations in the art of cooking fresh from the garden.
Organic Music/Community Percussion and Movement Circle
The food you eat is mostly factory farmed - grown in chemicals manufactured in a chemical works, but your music doesn't have to be '
factory farmed too. This free percussion and movement circle happens the last Sunday of each month during the warm season.
Participants learn about organic music and community building through rhythmic entrainment. Programs which teach instrument making
from garden materials and explore rhythmic entrainment and healing through toning can be offered by a teaching artist. Please contact us
with your group needs. Join us as we ground ourselves in the heart beat and spend an evening jamming to west African and Caribbean
rhythms. Drum and Dance til the cows come home! For more information please visit the Garden websiteand click on "Programs".
Nurture Craft in the Garden
Learn about the forms and shapes of flowers, leaves, plants, rocks and how to incorporate them into your hand made designs, jewelry, floral arrangements, wreaths, potpourris etc. Create valuable products from your garden which can make gardening sustainable. Learn the basics of aromatherapy and how to make safe botanical products. Nurture yourself through crafting. Craft workshops can be offered to your group by a teaching artist. Please contact us with your group needs.
Nature Writing/Literacy Program
A writing course exploring the language that nature uses to speak to us. Participants learn the ins and outs of effective nature writing and how to use visual words that engage our senses. Vocabulary is increased based on the observation of nature. Group workshops can be offered to your group by a teaching nature artist. Please contact us with your group needs.
Group Tours and Seasonal Celebrations.
If your group is visiting our historic community garden or community farmers market, we gladly welcome you. We host garden tours, and invite you to help us with seasonal tasks such as planting, weeding, making compost, and harvesting. Specific Instructional programs can also be catered to your group's needs for a fee. Wedding photo sessions, graduations and other family celebrations can be arranged with prior approval of a garden officer. We simply ask that you leave our garden in the same condition you found it and adhere to our bi-laws! The garden was a host site for the U.N CSD Brooklyn farm tour in 2008 & 2009.
Intentional Dialog/Conflict Resolution/Community Council
Community council is a traditional method of connecting and exploring common ground. This method has been used by indigenous societies for centuries and is particularly suitable for land dispute resolution issues and to remove cultural barriers within communities. In a community council people are encouraged to speak freely in a circle. The symbolism of the circle establishes no dominance by any party and has no beginning or end. This is a different kind of meeting than most modern people are used to. The focus is on dialogue -- on exploring and learning together -- not on getting things done or completing an agenda. It is possible, with expert facilitation and savvy participation, to do both linear and circular modes in one meeting. But "exploration" and "getting somewhere" are very different energies. The council container is focused on exploring and learning from each other.
Over the last seven years, the garden has hosted intentional dialogue as a way of engaging cultural tolerance, as a way of addressing neighbourhood issues such as food insecurity, male violence and taking action. Sitting in a circle helps us to fully see each other as peers sharing meaning, creativity, and a common center. The most basic unit of co-intelligent social life is people sitting in a circle listening deeply and speaking from the heart. Council work is profoundly important for the survival of our culture.
The Built Environment - Community led building projects in the Garden
There is growing recognition that the built environment -- the man-made physical structures and infrastructure of communities -- has an impact on our health. There are several indicators that altering elements of the built environment can improve health behaviors and outcomes. Because low-income communities are more likely to be sites of hazards and less likely to be conducive to physical activity and healthy eating, communities need to begin to research and create neighbourhood places with the health of community members at the fore. The ultimate goal in hosting community led building projects is knowledgeable community participation. This means creating environments that work for adults and children; buildings and spaces that are healthy and aesthetically pleasing; streetscapes and landscapes that reach to the future while celebrating our past.
2006 - Restore dilapidated statue and create flower garden Restore and refinish sculpture, create flower garden to attract beneficial pollinators.
Project reconstruction: Emmanuel Kolajo & Earl Fogle
Flower Garden Design: Yonnette Fleming
2007 - Designed & constructed a hoophouse that extends our growing season and teaches our children to start plants from seed.
Hoophouse Project Director:Yonnette Fleming
Expert Consultant: John Ameroso
Construction specialists: Emmanuel Kolajo & Earl Fogle
2009 - Transformed debris filled lot into educational childrens garden. This garden was designed by: Yonnette Fleming, La Cima Charter School teachers, parents and elementary school children.
Project Director: Yonnette Fleming
Project Design: Yonnette Fleming
Construction helpers: Emannuel Kolajo & Earl Fogle.
- Redesigned herb garden, added solar inputs, a green fence & arbor.
- Worked with community volunteer groups to reclaim, clear, level and design community farmers market from abandoned lot, created live plant installation with Yoruba market sculptures and public sitting area in market.
Project Director : Yonnette Fleming
Market Beds Designed by: Emmanuel Kolajo and Luscious McDaniel.
To learn more about Hattie Carthan (our neighborhood icon) the garden's' legacy, rules of engagement, how to get involved in garden programs or how you can meaningfully contribute to the work that our organization is doing in Central Brooklyn to promote food/environmental justice, CLICK HERE
Youth Program Descriptions
Youth Corps Application
At the Hattie Carthan Community Market young people develop new green job skills in the areas of gardening, value added ventures, seasonal nutrition, food education, livestock management, composting, cultural awareness, environmental stewardship and healthy living. The youths positively engage with their community through the operation of a socially responsible urban farming enterprise. Youth participants explore food systems and issues of food justice, and build community organizing/activism and other leadership skills.
Accepting Applications for the fall season through August 15th!
1.Youth participate in a learning intensive (and fun!) training prior to working in the farmers market. Topics include:
Customer service 101: Are you listening to what the customer is saying?
Stress management for teens
Market produce identification
WIC and Senior Farmers Market vouchers
Making change
Food education vs nutrition
Weights and measures
Displays/farm stand safety
Community run farmers markets
Workplace expectations
2.Youth operate the farm stands throughout the summer months.
Each farm stand is overseen by an adult mentor. These individuals are called "farm justice mentors" to emphasize their role in the learning process.
3.The supplemental activities and experiences provided to youth during the farmers market season include weekly education sessions and film screenings in the market. Topics include:
How do Marketplace Programs "work" for youth?
The youth farm stands provide a hands-on experience to youth in the mechanics of owning and operating a community venture, based on the premise that experience really is the best teacher. All youth interns work in the Hattie Carthan Community Farmers Market upon completing Garden to Market training and will assist in garden maintenance, livestock care, planting, harvesting and packaging of vegetables from the Hattie Carthan Community Garden (adjacent to the Market). Market interns also support the following market programs:
Senior Produce Drop-off Program:
This program is designed specifically for seniors who wish to receive fresh food delivery on market purchases above $20 and home-bound seniors. Homebound seniors sign up through community outreach, or download a Senior Produce Delivery Form. Produce orders must be placed by Tuesday of each week with the market operations coordinator (contact 212-561-7327) who fills the order and delegates the delivery run to a youth intern or market volunteer. Youth Interns and volunteers develop working relationships with seniors and serve them throughout the market season.
Fresh Food on Wheels:
Qualifying seniors sign up for a season of farm-fresh, local produce. Seniors receive a Reduced Price Senior Mixed Market Basket weekly that contains about 8 different varieties of fruits and vegetables. Seniors have the option to order a basket for one or a larger size for couples and/or families. The deeply discounted weekly cost of a Single Senior Mixed Market Basket is $7 and a Large Senior Mixed Market Basket is $15. The Fresh Food on Wheels Program creates an alternative to CSA programs and does not require a large upfront payment for the season. Instead participants make a payment at the beginning of each month of the season July - November with Cash or EBT(food stamps). Baskets are delivered weekly by Market youths and volunteers. Fresh Food on Wheels is an affordable option that increases access to fresh produce for less mobile, or homebound seniors, and creates the opportunity for a weekly visit building relationships between market youths and neighborhood seniors.
Mixed Produce Basket:
Participants sign up for a Single Mixed Basket or a Family Mixed Basket for the season. Each basket has a seasonal combination of about 8 different items, fruits, vegetables, herbs and/or eggs. All of the produce in the Mixed Produce Basket comes from within 150 miles of Bed-Stuy and a large part is grown right next door to the Market at the Hattie Carthan Community Garden by local community members. Baskets are picked up weekly at the Market on Saturday 10am-12pm. The Mixed Produce Basket is an alternative to traditional CSA programs. There are no large upfront seasonal costs. Participants make monthly payments of $48 for the Single Mixed Basket or $80 for the Family Mixed Basket with Cash, EBT, WIC/Senior FMNP. When compared to average CSA costs, The Hattie Carthan Mixed Produce Basket program saves its participants over $100 seasonally. Go to our Mixed Basket page or call 212-594-2155x9 for more information.
Juicing Stand (Healthy veggie bundles are juiced in the market for free):
Our human bodies have been created to have a marvelous self-healing capability. Fresh fruits and vegetables are some of the most healing foods given us for that healing purpose, qualities that human cannot imitate through drugs. Juicing makes it easy for our cells to assimilate these high quality nutrients to feed your cells. Juices are highly detoxifying and cleansing. They help repair damages to your cells, heal and nourish. Each week,Veggie bundles are sold based on healthy juicing recipes of community food educators. The veggies are then juiced by trained volunteers who operate and maintain the juicing machines in the market.
Pick your own Produce Program:
6 large beds in the market haves been allocated to the Pick your Own Program. Community members gain valuable experience in harvesting their own foods and ensure that their food is still alive upon purchasing. The price for this option is slightly higher than market prices for produce that has come in from the farm. Customers must wear gloves and use garden equipment to harvest fresh food.
Health Gains through Baking with Whole Grains:
Opt for healthy, whole grain homemade breads over the sugary supermarket (not local!) loaves.
Each week, as the sun rises, something else is rising in our marketplaces as well; the heritage and health of home-baked bread. The Hattie Carthan Community Farmers Market will host several community bread baking demonstrations in our market . In less than half an hour, we mix whole grain flours, a little butter, a dab of wild flower honey and the yeast that brings this whole concoction alive. By spreading the flour on the table and plopping the mound of dough onto it, we feel it beneath the heels of our hands pushing it away from us and folding it back again until it feels ready to be put to rest and grow for a few hours.
Market Tales Documenting our Lives, Farm Stories & Local Recipes:
An oral food history project consisting of the stories, lives and recipes of our community gardeners, food activists and marketplace community. This program will engage our youth and seniors in the creation of a market mural, a marketplace theatre piece which will be used to train new youth market interns, community cook books, socio-dramas, garden/market documentaries, DVDs, CDs.
Market Setup Committee
Yonnette Fleming (Founder-Volunteer) Stefanie Siegel (Volunteer) Bettina White (Volunteer) Annie Carroll (Volunteer)
LaShon Allen (Volunteer) Everlena Callaham (Volunteer) Ann Craves (Volunteer) Patrice Cortinez (Volunteer)
Ernest Anderson (Volunteer) Frank Betlewicz (Volunteer) Katie Joiner (Market Coordinator)
Click Here for a Garden to Market Intern Application
A message from Yonnette Fleming, Urban Farmer
Author of upcoming book: Finding Water in a Brooklyn Desert: Chronicles of an Urban Farmer
Our Chickens finally arrived at the Hattie Carthan Community Garden on 03/19/10!
Livestock breeding and farming has been practiced by the women in my family for years. According to my grandmother's accounts, (a woman who raised hundreds of chickens at a time for consumption in her village of Berbice) when the women in our family got married, they were given five live eggs (as part of a sort of dowry arrangement) which were hatched (of course roosters were allowed on those farms) and they learnt how to raise those chicks, those chicks went on to lay eggs and have other chicks and that was the foundation of their livestock farm.
Today, thanks to Heifer funding and the wonderful assistance of Just Food, I too feel
we at the Hattie Carthan community garden have received the gift of eggs for our
market and good hot compost for our compost piles. The birds were raised by Heifer
farmer, Martin Rodriguez, and passed unto the Hattie Carthan community garden as
part of Heifer's motto: passing on the gift of knowledge. We are grateful to farmer
Martin and his wife Guadencia who took the time to bring the birds from their farm
MimoMex in Goshen, NY to Bed Stuy for us and for sharing valuable tips for raising
the birds. We used our time together to flesh out possible future partnerships around
food and livestock. The eggs from our hens will be distributed in our discounted weekly mixed basket and the dung will be added back to our compost. Farmer Martin has also expressed interest in dropping off ethnic vegetables and herbs to our market and in having his daughter (who raised the birds that now call our coop home) be a part of our youth corps that trains youth in Urban Agriculture. We look forward to adding this farmer to our weekly roster of farmers dropping off locally grown food for distribution in our market which is located in a neighborhood classified as a Food Desert.
I feel truly honored to be raising the same breeds as my foremothers (Rhode Island Reds). The first day of
bonding with the hens and getting to know them was indeed humbling. They have so much to teach us about
sustainability. We got half a dozen eggs yesterday alone. Listening to that familiar sound that announces the
arrival of eggs was just wonderful for us working on the farm yesterday. We realize that the roosters have been
ousted from the cities so that we can wake up to the sound of blaring sirens instead. We long for the day when
those roosters can be welcomed back into the cities as the sound of their crowing is a nice alternative to the
mechanical roosters that pollute our neighborhoods and terrorize our hearts with their loud unnatural sounds.
Working with the chickens has been a very interesting experience thus far. Tasting the fresh egg and comparing that to what is sold to us in supermarkets has been mind-blowing. The eggs from our coop are silky in texture, very tasty and filling. Using humane approaches in our partnerships with animals is far more rewarding than inhumane approaches that create huge profits. Our neighborhood youths are buzzing with excitement at the arrival of the birds and schools are beginning to call to find out how the kids can get involved in learning about these animals.
We will be gathering our chicken committee to begin livestock training and logistics for
community chicken care interns. Those of you who have volunteered to be a part of that
committee that will preserve the health and wellbeing of these hens will receive a chicken
meet-up notice shortly. Please submit an online volunteer form if you would like to learn
more about chickens or wish to help to tend our flock daily. We will upload our chicken care
tip sheets and keep you updated about the status of our hens on this website periodically. All
livestock training workshops will be announced in this section.
Feel free to stop by the farm to see the beauties for yourself. Stay tuned for the 2010
Farmers Market Season Opening!
Farmly,
Yonnette Fleming
Hattie Carthan Chickens
in Our Times Press
CLICK HERE to
download a Livestock
Volunteer Application
Beyond Basic
Chicken Care
Just Food City
Chicken Project FAQs
Caring for Your Chickens
Healthy Hens and More Eggs
Current Program Sponsors:
Community Partners:
Collaborators:
The Hattie Carthan Community Garden/Market relies on support from our many community partners to provide amazing green programs to Central Brooklyn community residents.
Who should consider supporting our community farmers market:
2009 Garden/market fiscal sponsors
If you would like to get involved or would like more information, Please contact Market Project Director Yonnette Fleming at (718) 638-3566 or hattiecarthangarden_yahoo.com
Hattie Carthan Community Farmers Market
Attn: Yonnette Fleming, Market Project Director
677 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn NY 11216
T: (718) 638-3566
E: info_hattiecarthancommunitymarket.com
Come Visit the Hattie Carthan Community Farmers Market! The Market is located on Clifton Place at Marcy Avenue next to the Hattie Carthan Community Garden. Open July - November 9am - 3pm.
If you are interested in supporting this Brooklyn based community revitalization project and want to see us continue to build capacity in this community space donate here: http://www.firstgiving.com/hattiecarthanmarket.All donations are tax deductible.
Current Volunteer Market Openings:
Urban Agriculture Volunteers (5 positions)
Volunteer Members maintain a 2+-acre urban community farm and farmers market area. Grow, harvest and distribute produce to market; Monitor health and safety of livestock; Assist with cleaning chicken coop twice per week; Promote principles of gardening, composting, seed starting, and nutrition to community members. Increase community awareness of Hattie Carthan community garden by assisting with planning festivals, workshops and special seasonal events.
Call 718-738-3566 or send resume to hattiecarthangarden_yahoo.com
Urban Agriculture Fundraising Support Interns (2 positions)
20 hours per week
Job Description: The Hattie Carthan community garden/market is seeking two volunteers for these positions. Hirees will work with project director to identify grant sources, create a fundraising database, coordinate grant calendar, write grants and conduct fundraising activities which benefit the garden and market. Position requires strong networking skills, the ability to achieve milestones within strict timelines, and effective oral and written communication skills. Successful candidates will assist with setting up new urban agriculture programs, writing grants to support the garden and market projects, conducting research on food project initiatives and streamlining operations in the farm and market. Experience fundraising and facilitating agricultural projects with diverse audiences in an urban setting preferred. Knowledge of low income food programs preferred.
Call 718-638-3566 or send resume to hattiecarthangarden_yahoo.com
Food Education Mentors (2 positions)
The Hattie Carthan community garden/market seeks two volunteer interns to help support and encourage the development and growth of children. The food education mentors provide an avenue for chefs and growers to engage in the community and to support food sustainability. Most importantly, the food education mentors should implement techniques and programs which inspire children to grow their own food, even in the city. Food education mentors do neighborhood outreach and cooking demonstrations in the market, childhood centers and schools. Food education mentors teach kids to grow and cook their own food.
Volunteer Coordinator and Alternative Market Distribution Representative
Reports to Market Project Director
Duties:
Assist with training of volunteers and monitor volunteer timesheets
Organize volunteers to harvest food for market on Fridays and to work in market on Saturday
Coordinate and update mailing lists and market volunteer list
Promote and advertise garden and market events in free community newspapers, blogs etc between Clinton Hill and Bushwick
Market Produce and Varieties
(Seasonally Available):
to read about the produce available
