tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2704229977733059042024-03-14T01:03:40.877-07:00bk farmyardsbk farmyardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08478105054931832198noreply@blogger.comBlogger156125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270422997773305904.post-45145783344182814552015-07-17T22:28:00.000-07:002015-07-17T22:28:18.550-07:00** Bake and Win ** -> I love a challenge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I love putting my chef skills to the test. What will I bake to win? Perhaps I'll try something new like a vegan pumpkin pie cookie. Quick recipe off the top of my head: grind up some walnuts and dates, add baked pumpkin to the mix, throw in some cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, & ground cloves, a pinch of salt, and what the heck...some chocolate chips. Bake at 350 until golden. Voila!<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nonstick-Silicone-eliminates-disasters-waistline/dp/B00K4S1L1K" target="_blank">Click here to pick up the Bake and Win mat for yourself</a>. What will you bake?Stacey Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13811985471140235547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270422997773305904.post-85965059434580936142015-03-03T09:46:00.000-08:002015-03-03T09:46:37.548-08:00FREE ONLINE CONFERENCE ON SMALL FARM SUSTAINABILITY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Join us for a free online conference on sustainable small farming. </span><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">The conference features speakers from all aspects of what it takes to make your farm sustainable, from managing soil fertility, keeping better books, and finding support from other small farmers. </span></div>
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<b>Richard Wiswall</b>: Farming Smarter, Not Harder<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Kevin Egolf:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Farmland Access Strategies for Aspiring Farmers<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>HOST Stacey Murphy:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Understanding Your Finances - Tips & Strategies<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Youth Farm is Hiring! </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Youth Farm: Assistant Farm Manager Position</b><span style="color: windowtext;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">The Youth Farm seeks an Assistant Farm Manager to begin in early April 2015. Ideally this candidate is interested in committing to 2 years or has a desire to invest in Brooklyn’s food justice and food systems sustainability long-term.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">The Youth Farm <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Assistant Farm Manager (AFM)</b> is responsible for co-leading the UFTP program, and serving as a leader and mentor farmer for all learners who visit and engage with the farm. The AFM will work with the Farm Manager to plan and implement farm management practices that are sustainable, replicable on a small/low-cost scale, and that encourage healthy soil and community life. The Farm Manager is responsible for managing the CSA program, tracking payments and membership communication. The AFM will co-lead the Urban Farm Training Program, a 7 month intensive urban farming certificate program, teaching 20% of UFTP workshops (Mondays) and leading 30% of farm walks (Wednesdays). The AFM will create and lead Wednesday farmer’s market harvests as well as Friday restaurant harvests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The AFM will support the Head Crew Leader on Tuesdays with restaurant harvests, and will oversee our Internship program. <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">We are committed to creating a workplace that respects and values diversity – we strongly welcome candidates from all backgrounds as we are committed to hiring staff that reflect the cultural and ethnic diversity of NYC.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270422997773305904.post-68607853104787555592014-11-03T19:01:00.000-08:002014-11-03T19:09:24.964-08:00Meet Your Maker<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dinner & Drinks by 3 of Brooklyn’s Most Notable Chefs</span></b></div>
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<b style="color: #990000;"><i>Support farm based education in Brooklyn and Eat Amazing Local Food!</i></b></div>
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<a href="https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10628395_10152459521683282_2689725893038879573_n.jpg?oh=3419fd8ce5ea58aca983c3daba27091a&oe=54F1F6A9" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10628395_10152459521683282_2689725893038879573_n.jpg?oh=3419fd8ce5ea58aca983c3daba27091a&oe=54F1F6A9" width="320" /></a>The Youth Farm hosts an intimate evening <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_629840236" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">this Thursday</span></span> with<span style="font-size: 13px;"> three incredible chefs using seasonal ingredients from the Farm, paired with local beer and wine sourced by 61 Local. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Thursday, November 6<sup>th</sup> </span></b></div>
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<b>61 Local Public House, Cobble Hill BK</b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.nycharities.org/events/EventLevels.aspx?ETID=7667" target="_blank">Space is limited - tickets can be purchased HERE.</a></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.911111831665px;">All proceeds to benefit The Youth Farms </span>educational programming, enabling hundreds of students to learn about everything from food justice to environmental science on the farm!</span></div>
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<b>Zahra Tangorra of </b><a href="http://www.brucienyc.com/" target="_blank">Brucie</a><span id="goog_908740804"></span><span id="goog_908740805"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><b>:</b> Maple roasted parsnips with purple carrots, bacon hazelnut "dirt" and black sesame yogurt</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">We want to offer an intensive Undoing Racism and Oppression workshop to our dedicated group of youth farmers and community activists, apprentices and staff. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Understanding racism is hard work, and understanding how to work towards personal and institutional change is even harder. Please help us work on these important topics so that we can improve our lives and our community fully through our work as food justice advocates and community change agents. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The workshops will focus on understanding what racism is, where it comes from, how it functions, why it persists and how it can be undone. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 12pt;">Our workshops will utilize a systemic approach that emphasizes learning from history, developing leadership and maintaining accountability to communities, creating networks, undoing internalized racial oppression and understanding the role of organizational gate keeping as a mechanism for perpetuating racism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Monica Dennis</span></span></b><span style="color: red;"> </span>is a Community Organizer and Anti Oppression Trainer. She is also the Co-Founder of The Spirit of A Woman Leadership Development Institute a community-based organization committed to creating transformative and inspiring educational experiences. S.O.W. believes that focused attention on how we frame educational and societal experiences greatly impacts the cultural, academic, social and personal development of young people and educators, in particular, and the community as a whole. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />For the past 20 years, she served as a consultant and an advisor to various global organizations, and academic and religious institutions, seeking her expertise on implementing her youth leadership model into their programming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Rachael has conducted numerous trainings with adults and young people on topics ranging from team building, community development, conflict resolution, anti-oppression, addressing the isms, and community service learning theories and application. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">We know that to achieve food justice we must address issues of racism and oppression. <a href="https://www.ioby.org/project/help-us-hold-undoing-racism-oppression-workshops" style="color: #ff4300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Please help us by donating today.</a></span></b><i><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.ioby.org/project/help-us-hold-undoing-racism-oppression-workshops" style="color: #ff4300; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> </a></span></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270422997773305904.post-23399849420168972472014-04-21T16:44:00.002-07:002014-04-21T16:44:54.449-07:00Urban Agriculture in New York City!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.15;">Interested in hands-on, environmental education? </span><span style="line-height: 1.15;">Trying to find a way to get your group to talk about agricultural and food justice issues? </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Just want to get your group active in an outdoor setting? </span><span style="line-height: 23px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Want to bring a group for some awesome farm-based education?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Youth Farm hosts groups of all types and ages, and can design a tour or workshop on the farm that suits your group’s interests. </span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>We want to provide farm-based education opportunities to the 5 schools at Wingate Campus, over 1200 students!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">We have provided a welcoming space for hands-on and interdisciplinary
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stimulating ways than is possible in an indoor setting. The farm landscape
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Here is an </span>example<span style="font-size: small;"> of some the ways the Youth Farm is used as an outdoor classroom: </span></b></span></div>
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lessons come to life through plant and ecological observation Nutrition lessons start at soil nutrient
quality: students pick, prepare and eat delicious food. They can taste test for
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Sketching classes can inspire the next great artists of the 21st century.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can help <a href="https://ioby.org/project/increase-joy-learning-through-farm-based-education-wingate-campus-schools" target="_blank">TODAY by donating to our fundraising campaign</a> to expand farm-based education to all 5 schools at Wingate Campus.</span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">BK Farmyards celebrates The Youth Farm at the High School for Public Service. </span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Delicious drinks and food from the best local and sustainable restaurants, breweries and vineyards, raffles of substantial delights, live acoustic music, glorious hobnobbing and real farmers in clean clothes! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The chandeliers will be flickering kindly, the last of the fall flowers adorning, the warmth of history held by the old Mansion's walls as the air grows crisp... It will be a Brooklyn night to remember. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">at the beautiful 375 Stuyvesant Mansion </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">home of the Freebrook Academy </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.bluemarbleicecream.com/" target="_blank">Blue Marble,</a> <a href="http://seersuckerbrooklyn.com/" target="_blank">Seersucker</a>,<a href="http://scratchbread.com/" target="_blank"> SCRATCH bread,</a> <a href="http://breadlovebkny.com/" target="_blank">Bread Love</a>, <a href="http://nightingale9.com/" target="_blank">Nightengale 9</a>, <a href="http://nycommunaltable.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Communal Table...</a><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Drinks from:</span><br />
<a href="http://jimmysno43.com/" target="_blank">Jimmys No. 43. </a><a href="http://www.61local.com/" target="_blank">61 Local</a>, <a href="http://www.kombuchabrooklyn.com/" target="_blank">Kombucha Brooklyn</a>, <a href="http://drinkicd.com/#top" target="_blank">Industry City</a>....<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><i><b>All funds will support the Youth Farm at the High School for Public Service. </b></i></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270422997773305904.post-35790727196560795242013-10-22T16:29:00.002-07:002013-10-22T16:32:10.157-07:00URBAN FARM TRAINING PROGRAM 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Our program offers adults the chance to experience what it takes to farm and explore a career in organic agriculture through hands-on training on a 1 acre diversified farm. As an apprentice at the Youth Farm you will gain many valuable growing skills necessary for cultivating a wide variety of vegetables and flowers appropriate to our region. Through this intensive 20-hr per week commitment, you will gain the invaluable experience of nurturing crops and soil day to day and gain a sense for the physical and mental energy required to run a small farming operation that produces high quality vegetables, beautiful flowers, and a rich and harmonious community space. As in a rural farm apprenticeship, we view time spent doing hands-on farm work as the most important component of becoming skilled in organic agriculture. In order to farm, you have to farm! </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270422997773305904.post-40232887436721577512013-10-13T16:17:00.001-07:002013-10-13T16:17:53.623-07:00Support The YOUTH FARM! DONATE TODAY!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><a href="https://ioby.org/project/increase-joy-learning-through-farm-based-education-wingate-campus-schools" target="_blank">We are raising money to expand our educational programs at all 5 schools at Wingate Campus. </a></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13px;">The Farm provides a welcoming space for hands on and interdisciplinary education. Classes on the farm engage students who struggle with the methods and structure of classroom education, and specifically serves to help those students who most need extra support to be engaged and interested in school. On the Youth Farm students engage their brains and bodies in completely different ways then indoor lessons.</span><br />
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<li>Gym classes that engage the mind as well as the body through soil preparation, compost turning and incorporation</li>
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The Youth Farm’s School Liaison will meet with teachers from all Wingate schools and help them to alter their current curriculum to incorporate hands on, farm-based learning to meet academic goals.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As a result of your support, hundreds of new students from 6th to 12th grade will have classes on the farm. Our goal is for these lessons to make the learning process joyful and eye-opening for students, showing them meaningful learning can happen outside the classroom through direct experience.</strong></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270422997773305904.post-27561836549772507062013-09-20T10:09:00.001-07:002013-09-20T10:09:27.378-07:00Hiring: Part Time Youth Farm Director<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Youth Farm is a unique partnership between the High School for Public Service and Green Guerillas. It is a one acre diversified production farm engaging the school community and surrounding neighborhood in farm-based experiential learning. Farm products are sold at a weekly farmers market increasing community access to fresh affordable food.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Youth Farm operates as a collective, with all staff working together to make important decisions. The Director is responsible for meeting with Youth Farm staff and community to set goals and program plans for the Youth Farm, and most importantly, fundraising for these programs. This person is responsible for staff and farm sale invoicing, tracking accomplishments, staff reviews and organizing strategic planning sessions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The applicant should be an enthusiastic self-starter with experience in collective work environments. The ideal candidate should be equally comfortable taking initiative and working collaboratively in a close-knit team environment. Experience with grant writing and grassroots fundraising is a must for this position, as is knowledge of the current funding environment. Gardening and horticulture knowledge and familiarity with the food justice movement a plus. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">We are committed to creating a workplace that respects and values diversity – we strongly welcome candidates from all backgrounds as we are committed to hiring staff that reflect the cultural and ethnic diversity of our community.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Build and sustain relationships with foundations, cultivate private donors, manage grassroots fundraising campaigns<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Maintain partnerships with the Wingate Schools that support the goal of enhancing youth engagement and learning on the Farm<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Work with and hire interns to help with special events, outreach and office work<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Work with Wingate administration to evaluate how the school’s objectives are being met</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Please send a cover letter and resume to Bee Ayer at Bee(at)bkfarmyards (dot)com. The letter should include details of your availability, as well as details about your relevant experience and training.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Applicants must be available on weekdays during the day, and occasional evenings and weekends. This position is a paid part-time position and also includes fresh harvested vegetables, flower and herbs. Applications due September 26<sup>th</sup>, position starts November 11<sup>th</sup>. </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270422997773305904.post-75920597212451648012013-07-18T13:29:00.004-07:002013-07-18T13:30:33.557-07:002013 Chicken Apprenticeship<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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BK Farmyards is very excited to offer our 2013 Chicken Apprenticeships. We look forward to working and learning with you, and the hours of fun we will have together and with the hens. The BK Farmyards Chicken Apprenticeship is designed to teach the basics of raising hens in the city and direct marketing eggs.<br />
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The 2012 Apprenticeship will run for 3 months starting July 18th, and can be extended for additional months. The apprenticeship will meet weekly on Thursdays at 5:30, and apprentices will schedule their own independent hours with the chickens. Apprentices will spend about 4 hours per week in the Imani Garden (Dean Street & Schenectady Avenue) working with the hens, helping with the CSA and taking field trips. The Apprenticeship includes hands on learning with the current chicken keepers, independent work with the hens, independent readings and explorations, and field trips.<br />
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This is an unpaid apprenticeship; however we will sometimes be able to offer eggs to take home. We will ask each apprentice for a small deposit to keep their place in the program (or make an alternate arrangement if the deposit presents a difficulty).<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please contact Lydia for more information: <span style="color: #222222; white-space: nowrap;">tradegi53@gmail.com</span></span></b>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270422997773305904.post-24186294942272872172013-06-06T10:38:00.001-07:002013-06-06T10:38:58.750-07:00Recomended Film Showing at IFC<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>a new film by our friends Deborah Koons Garcia and Jessica Beckett, best known for the 2004 film, THE FUTURE OF FOOD
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">SYMPHONY OF THE SOIL is a feature length film that explores the complexity and mystery of soil. Filmed on four continents and sharing the voices of some of the world’s most highly esteemed soil scientists, farmers, and activists, the film portrays soil as a protagonist of our planetary story. In a skillful mix of art and science, soil is revealed to be a living organism, the foundation of life on earth. Most people are soil-blind and “treat soil like dirt.” With the knowledge and wisdom revealed in this film, we can come to respect, even revere, this miraculous substance. The film inspires the understanding that treating the soil right can help solve some of our most pressing environmental problems, from climate change, to dead zones, to feeding an ever increasing world population.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270422997773305904.post-80576216285539913082013-05-30T14:19:00.001-07:002013-05-30T14:20:17.684-07:00SUPER SATURDAY at the YOUTH FARM! Plant Sale, Volunteer Day and Free Workshop!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Our Go Green! High School Class grew tons of plants and wants to share them with you! The plants were all started from seed by the students and lovingly raised all spring. Tons of different vegetables and herbs available.</div>
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<span itemprop="description">You can come for the whole day or drop in. Please bring lunch, a water bottle and appropriate clothing. Please note no sandals or open toed shoes. Youth under the age of 13 must be accompanied by an adult. If you would like to come with a group just drop us a line and let us know!<br /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Free Workshop: Management of Pests & Diseases 2-3:30pm,</span> </span></b></span></span><br />
<span itemprop="description">Using organic preventative techniques can be essential to maintaining a thriving garden or farm. In this hands-on workshop we will discuss common garden pests, their life cycles, and how to manage them without using synthetic chemical that are hard on the natural ecosystem.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270422997773305904.post-27063786876944794942013-05-04T19:42:00.001-07:002013-05-04T19:54:22.346-07:00Urban Farm Training Program<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8055/8119484340_70ed9904a1_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: transparent; clear: right; color: #222222; float: right; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="100" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8055/8119484340_70ed9904a1_b.jpg" width="150" /></a><span style="color: purple; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">The Youth Farm is an educational production farm in East Flatbush that offers New Yorkers opportunities to increase their knowledge of the food system and build high level organic growing skills to share with their communities. The Youth Farm grows organic food & flowers on one acre for the community, and offers advanced farm training and leadership opportunities for youth and adults.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Our Adult Farm Training program seeks to provide urban-based adults with the opportunity to gain concrete skills in organic farming, and to explore a career in organic agriculture and community food systems through hands-on training under the tutelage of highly experienced growers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Through a season on the Youth Farm -- <em>June 3 through October 18</em> -- you will become intimately familiar with the tasks, challenges, and rewards of growing many varieties of vegetables and flowers appropriate to our region and community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/:http://hspsfarm.blogspot.com/p/urban-farm-training-program.html." target="_blank">Click Here For more information on our Apprenticeship</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">* Hands-on farm work on a 1 acre diversified, in-ground farm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">* Technical Workshops on Seasonal topics</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">* Instructional farm walks </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">* Training Rotations in Propagation, Irrigation, Management etc.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">* Direct marketing via CSA, Farmers Market, and Restaurants</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">* Working with youth </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">* NYC C.R.A.F.T. membership</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">* Round table discussion with food systems experts</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Join Farmer Molly on <a href="http://www.meetup.com/City-Farming-NYC/events/117119292/" target="_blank">Friday, May 10th</a> or Farmer Bee on <a href="http://www.meetup.com/City-Farming-NYC/events/117119602/" target="_blank">Saturday May 11th</a> to learn about the history of the Youth Farm, our growing practices, educational programming and direct marketing, and to hear more specifics on our Apprenticeship.</span></b></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270422997773305904.post-66928409864238201962013-04-27T14:48:00.002-07:002013-04-27T14:55:53.910-07:00Support GreenThumbs & School Gardens<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<ul style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>There is no permanent funding for school gardens in New York City. To help fill the gap, there is currently a proposal with the city council to fund GreenThumb's purchase and delivery of soil, lumber, and other materials for school gardens in 2013-14.</b><br /><br /><br />Please CALL or EMAIL both Speaker Quinn and your Council Member as soon as possible, asking them to *support citywide discretionary funding for the GreenThumb school garden program, Reference #201302001400*.</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>1) Speaker Christine Quinn: </b><br />District Office Phone: <a href="tel:%28212%29%20564-7757" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" value="+12125647757">(212) 564-7757 or </a>Legislative Office Phone: <a href="tel:%28212%29%20788-7210" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" value="+12127887210">(212) 788-7210</a><br /><br /><a href="http://council.nyc.gov/d3/html/members/contact.shtml" target="_blank">Send an email using this link</a><br /><br /><b>2) Your Council Member: </b><br /><a href="http://council.nyc.gov/html/members/members.shtml" target="_blank">Find his/her contact info with your address using this link</a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">identified your council member, please call or send an email from your member's website. </span></ul>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270422997773305904.post-29598156146775378812013-04-18T17:48:00.002-07:002013-04-22T07:43:25.940-07:00Where Are They Now? Past Youth Farm Apprentices...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">We love staying in touch with past apprentices, and finding out all the amazing things they go on to do after learning with us at the Youth Farm... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><a href="http://hspsfarm.blogspot.com/p/urban-farm-training-program.html" target="_blank"><b>Find out more about our Urban Farm Training Program</b> </a></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://hspsfarm.blogspot.com/p/urban-farm-training-program.html" target="_blank">(accepting applications for summer)</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Liz </b></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Liz Dowd </b>(2012): </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit;">Liz is now the Assistant Farm Manager at the Youth Farm. We are thrilled to have her stay on with us for a second year and take on this leadership role. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Mia Riddle</b> (2012): </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit;">Mia Riddle left New York the day after finishing the Youth Farm</span><u style="font-family: inherit;"> </u><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit;">Apprenticeship. She now holds a resident staff position as CSA/Market</span><u style="font-family: inherit;"> </u><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit;">Manager at <a href="http://bluehouseorganicfarm.com/">Blue House Farm</a> in Pescadero, CA. The farm is an hour south</span><u style="font-family: inherit;"> </u><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit;">of San Francisco on the rural Central Coast, and grows 30 acres of</span><u style="font-family: inherit;"> </u><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit;">organic produce and flowers.</span><u style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></u></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Sarah Pekovitch</b> (2012): </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sarah is </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit;">currently living in Chicago working with the <a href="http://www.chicagobotanic.org/">ChicagoBotanic Garden</a> as a Grower. She is working with the Green Youth Farm which is within CBG's 'Community Gardening' program. </span><br />
<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Bret Ward</b> (2012):</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"> Bret ward is still living in Brooklyn. He currently working as a landscaper for the P<a href="http://www.prospectpark.org/about/alliance" target="_blank">rospect Park Alliance</a> on the lakeside construction project. He also works on his web comic </span><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="http://www.lonelymountaingarbage.com/" target="_blank">Lonely</a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.lonelymountaingarbage.com/" target="_blank"> Mountain Garbage</a>. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Many people would say Bret is aloof, he is hilarious. </span><br />
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our bodies, our communities, and our land. There’s a reason there’s been a <a href="http://www.garden.org/articles/articles.php?q=show&id=3126">huge increase in home and community gardens</a>, it makes us feel great! </div>
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community gardeners weighed their harvests…we estimate that…87,700 lbs of fresh
produce was grown on just 1.7 acres, worth more than $200,000.’ </span>Don't let a pesky thing like not having your own yard get in your way. Where there's a will, there's a way.</div>
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There are tons of easy mistakes for novices to make AFTER the ground thaws and the growing season starts. There are also big mistakes you
can make BEFORE you ever plant a seed. Like anything in life, a good plan will
get you about 80% of the way to your goal. If you want a bountiful garden this
summer, do your research now, and enjoy the garden ride knowing you’ve reduced
your risks of total crop failure and emotional let down. Gardening is high stakes experimentation: it takes 4 months to go from seed to tomato, so you want to make sure you start out right.</div>
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There is so much free information available online for new
gardeners or growers that it’s incredibly easy to get lost in the information and
not know when something is important until you have lost your entire crop of
tomatoes. I want everyone who spends their time gardening to reap the full
benefits of the garden experience, so I’m sharing my list of most common
mistakes that people make TODAY and until the ground thaws.</div>
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winter, I’ll think about it later’</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> –
If you’re plan is to go to the garden store in April and ask a bunch of
questions, plant what you can find, and hopefully eat some herbs and
veggies, your success or failure will depend on your innate knowledge of
biological processes and the store’s ability to guess your needs. You
might even feel wildly successful because you were able to eat some
homegrown deliciousness, but what you won’t know is how much MORE
efficient and bountiful your harvest could have been if you had done some
research and created a plan. It’s February, and farmers have already
created their crop plans, ordered their seeds, and probably planted their
leeks and onions. You still have lots of time to plan if you start now.
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nothing magical about soil’ – </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">If you
intend on eating your vegetables, you should be deeply interested in what
your plants are ‘eating’. All growing mediums are not created equally. Have
you gotten a soil test to know what you’ll be consuming? If you don’t have
access to soil, how do you feel about the nutrient differences between
container gardening, rooftop farming (which is essentially a giant
container), hydroponics, aquaponics, and aeroponics? Sure, you might be
conserving water with hydroponics, but is your nutrient source
sustainable? Does that answer factor into your decision making process or
not? At some point, the nutrients that your plants take up are coming from
the earth, so this is an opportunity to define what you want your
relationship to be with our planet. If you want to dive into the magic of
soil, I recommend the book ‘Teaming with Microbes’ as a wonderful underground
journey.</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></li>
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figure out what to do in the garden when I get there’ –</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Spending time pulling weeds because you don’t
know what else you’re supposed to be doing in the garden is not the best
use of your energy (unless you love pulling weeds). Defining your
gardening style for your favorite crops allows you to move through your
garden with confidence and ease. And let’s be real. The sunniest, most
gorgeous days are the days that you want to go to the beach or hiking, and
those are the same days that are going to kill all your hard work in the
garden. If you have a full and busy life and it is not your intention to
spend all your free time tending your garden, then you need to know
exactly how to spend time nurturing your plants in a way that suits your
lifestyle. And about those weeds…if you plan well.</span></li>
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harvest whenever I’m hungry’ – </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Edibles
will surprise you with their abundance if you pay attention to their
manicuring needs. Pre-season is the time to plan if you are planting cut
and come again crops and what your pruning technique will be for your
precious fruiting vines. You’ll end up with a harvest schedule that will
maximize your yield, help you plan special meals, and make tons of space
for more plants. </span></li>
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forgot what I did last year’</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> – If you
plan to grow food each year, get a journal. Science experiments require
observation if you ever want to replicate or change the outcome. Don’t
rely on your memory. You will inevitably forget if you planted that
broccoli July 31<sup>st</sup> or August 7<sup>th</sup>, and that one week
could be the difference between eating broccoli in the fall and just
getting some broccoli leaves (which are still delicious, but
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Your relationship to your garden starts before you plant any
seeds or seedlings. Address these 5 issues and you will be well on your way to
a bountiful harvest. Make your commitment now and you will already be enjoying
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your garden or farm this year, join me in <a href="http://skl.sh/12AsbUF">‘Manifesting Your Dream Garden’ on Skillshare</a> where I’ll walk you through the planning process step-by-step in
more detail and get you ready before the ground thaws. For a Valentines Day special, I'm offering half off the first 50 people, so you can choose to plan your garden with your loved one if you like. The code is FREELOVE.</span><!--EndFragment-->Stacey Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13811985471140235547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270422997773305904.post-44229442222144144992013-01-14T13:38:00.001-08:002013-03-01T06:34:06.078-08:00URBAN FARM TRAINING PROGRAM <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As Mother Nature goes into hibernation for the winter, we
would like to thank all of you for your generosity, time, and support this
year. We are deeply grateful that so many of you believe in the work that we
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thanks to you, in 2012 over 500 kids cooked and ate
delicious treats from the farm; teens and teachers spent over 6500 hours
discovering new ways of thinking about food; 612 elementary students have
discovered earthworms onsite and tasted our greens, and we grew TONS of food
and flowers to boot. <a href="https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1356102414-0df220e3ab1fe99bdbfed6bd06d6c398-24047d6?pa=307336640896674158" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Check out the new video the Summer Youth Farmers made</span></a> to
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A big big big THANK YOU to <a href="http://www.61local.com/" target="_blank">61 Local </a>for giving us run of the restaurant for the evening. And if you made a silkscreen we would love to see a picture of you wearing it around! Join the<a href="http://www.facebook.com/farmy.drinks" target="_blank"> Farmy Drinks Facebook</a> and our Newsletter to make sure you hear about future gatherings!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the ladies of bk farmyards will be working the bar and pouring delicious beers and serving up homemade treats. All tips and revenue from food will go to bk farmyards!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">All farmies, gardeners, market workers, chefs, educators, friends of these people, policy makers etc and lovers welcome!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270422997773305904.post-10092569153449122522012-11-20T20:29:00.001-08:002012-11-20T20:29:55.109-08:00Buy Nothing & Give Something this Friday<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br /></span></span>
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We're reaching out to our supporters to ask that they support <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Buy Nothing Day</a> this coming Black Friday (which has also been rebranded as Occupy Xmas). While supporting local volunteer organizations is not on the list of approved activities by Adbusters or Wikipedia, we believe it is an amazing way to give thanks while not adhering to the Buy Nothing edict. In fact, it's the opposite of buying...it's giving! Why be passive when you can be active. We are rebranding the Friday after Thanksgiving as Give Something!</div>
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Please consider supporting new youth farmer internships and youth employment opportunities at the Youth Farm. <a href="https://www.donationpay.org/greenguerillas/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Go to the Green Guerillas site to donate what you can</a>. Tell your families about our programs and invite them to donate what they can. (Make sure you designate your gift to the HSPS Youth Farm.) Our youth farmers want to grow! You can check out some of our <a href="http://hspsfarm.blogspot.com/p/summer-youth-program.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Youth Programs on the blog</a>. Or a video from last year's <a href="http://vimeo.com/27862032" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Youth Farmer Employment Program</a>.</div>
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Whenever there is a natural disaster like Hurricane Sandy, it is so apparent how much we have to be grateful for. While so many people are back to business as usual, there are still thousands whose lives have been upturned. <a href="http://hspsfarm.blogspot.com/2012/10/storm-update.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">While we only lost a small amount of produce & equipment from hurricane damage</a>, we rely on this income to fund our youth programs on site. <a href="http://observer.com/2012/10/new-yorks-urban-farms-weather-hurricane-sandys-winds-but-not-her-waters/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">We believe that sustainable farming practices like ours are critical in climate discussions and local food security</a>. </div>
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If you would like other ideas for how to give this Buy Nothing/Give Something day to more directly support Hurricane Sandy efforts, we recommend donating to <a href="http://brooklyncommunityfoundation.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Brooklyn Community Foundation Recovery Fund</a> for Emergency Grants to community organizations helping with Sandy relief. Community groups on the ground are so effective with their flexibility to get aid where it's needed most. </div>
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Give Thanks on Thursday and don't forget to Give Something this Friday to someone who needs it.</div>
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