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Participate in Small Business Saturday!

JNicholson — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:47:24 +0000

Why buy local? Here's why. (Click to enlarge) <a href="http://www.elocal.com/infographics/why-buy-local.html"><img src="http://www.elocalwebsites.com/externalAssets/Blogs/WhyBuyLocalSmall.jpg" alt="Why Buy Local Infographic" /></a> Source: <a href="http://www.elocal.com">eLocal.com</a>

Buy Food Grown in YOUR neighborhood!! Hattie Carthan Community Farmers Market!!!

melissa horrigan — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:59:59 +0000

Hattie Carthan Community Farmers Market EVERY SATURDAY!! 9:00am – 3:00pm Event very week to week (look at calendar below) PLACE: Hatie Carthan community market (Corner of Clifton & Marcy Aves) GG – Bedford/Nostrand Get over here and support your neighborhood market. Come to fill up your basket with wonderful locally grown produce and get some fresh prepared food to nibble on too! Including grilled corn, watermelon, various weekly specials (vegetarians welcome!) and assorted teas and drinks! Saturday, September 15th 2012 Caring for your mixed basket. Struggling with extra veggies in your weekly basket? Join Organic Soul Chef Madea Allen as she demonstrates exciting ways to preserve and prepare the vegetables you receive in your mixed basket. This workshop is for Hattie Carthan market basket participants. Saturday, October 6th 2012 11:30am-1pm Preserving the Herbal Harvest Cooking Demo w/ longtime community food educator Yonnette Fleming Learn to preserve the freshness of your favorite herbs through drying, freezing and other preservation methods. Saturday, October 13th 2012 HCCM 1:30pm-3:30pm - Bread Baking Workshop Fresh baked bread included! Sign up at market in prior weeks Saturday, October 20th 2012 1:30pm—3:30 pm—Bread Baking workshop Fresh baked bread included! Sign up at market in prior weeks Saturday, October 27th 2012 - HCCM Day of the Dead Celebration Features live altar exhibit, the use of food in Sacred ritual workshop, skull making workshop, face painting, candied apples cooking demo, drum circle, and more. Drums and costumes encouraged! 11:30am -1pm Healthy holiday treats (carob apples w/organic soul chef Madea Allen) 1:00pm -2pm Pumpkin carving and holiday crafts workshop 2pm—3:30pm The use of food in rituals w/ market founder/longtime community food educator Yonnette Fleming. Saturday, November 3rd 2012— HCCM 12:00pm—1:30 pm Warming spices for the cool season. Join long time food educator/market founder as she whips up a warm porridge and offers suggestions for keeping the body warm through the cool season. 1:30pm-3:30pm Final Bread Baking Workshop —Fresh baked bread included! Saturday November 10th 2012—HCCM—2 Events! 11:30am—1:00pm Roots and Nuts Demo Join organic soul chef Madea Allen for a roots nutrition workshop. Learn to incorporate roots and nuts in your diet for optimum nutrition. 6pm-10pm HCCM Farmy Folks Soiree Markets Fundraiser and Volunteer Appreciation Ceremony Join us for a home grown family style feast, live eco and folk performances, farmy film screenings, a 2012 market season virtual tour, and more. Online and In Market registration for the soiree begins Sept 15th. Saturday, November 17th 2012— 11:30am—1:00 pm (Food and Justice) Is Your Color and Socio-Economic Status Making you Sick? Join food justice farmer Yonnette Fleming as we explore Race, Class, Geography, Illness and the Food System while drawing connections between health and a neighborhood's physical, social, service, and economic environments. 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.

Order from the farm, pick up in your neighborhood!

mes — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:10:16 +0000

This week farms from Ulster County in Upstate New York are harvesting peaches, collards, kale, garlic, potatoes and more! Go to <a href="https://www.plovgh.com/">Plovgh.com</a> to see what crops are available this week. To place an order: Choose your neighborhood Pickup Point. Select which crops you want. Place your order and pick up your goods this Saturday! Pickup Points for Saturday, July 14 Williamsburg - Huckleberry Bar - 1:30-3:30PM Greenpoint - Dandelion Wine - 12-2PM Downtown Brooklyn - Dekalb Market - 11AM-2PM BedStuy - 462 Halsey Community Garden - 1-3PM If you have any questions please get in touch by contacting <a href="mailto:hello@plovgh.com">hello@plovgh.com</a>

Built in Brooklyn CRAFT FAIR - this Saturday, July 7!

AP — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:08:33 +0000

Hi friends, We invite you to join us for some wonderful local shopping as we celebrate Independence Day at the "Built in Brooklyn" Craft Fair! SATURDAY, JULY 7 12:00 to 6:00 PM at LaunchPad 721 Franklin Avenue (between Park Pl. & Sterling Pl.) Info: <a href="mailto:builtinbklyn@gmail.com">builtinbklyn@gmail.com</a> Hand-made jewelry, greeting cards, food, gifts and clothing from all LOCAL-AREA artisans. Come enjoy the sunshine in our breezy backyard! Please help us spread the word.

Plovgh in Greenpoint

mes — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:20:56 +0000

A new kind of farm share is now available in Greenpoint.<a href="www.plovgh.com">Plovgh</a>, an online community where farms announce their harvest and members place orders from farms for pick-up in their neighborhood, has a new Pickup Point at Veronica People’s Club. Starting Saturday, December 17, 10am-2pm, Veronica People’s Club (105 Franklin Street between Greenpoint Avenue and Milton Street) will have Plovgh pickups every other week. To find out what’s available from the farms – from Long Island winter greens to Iowa popcorn, sign up at Plovgh.com. In addition to connecting you with farms’ crops, Plovgh also has tools for starting a Pickup Point in your neighborhood. Groups are getting Plovgh Pickup Points started around New York City, with outposts in Downtown Brooklyn and the West Village to date. Visit Plovgh.com to learn more. For more information, please contact <a href="mailto:elizabeth@plovgh.com">elizabeth@plovgh.com</a>.

Built in Brooklyn CRAFT FAIR - Saturday, 11/26 at LaunchPad!

AP — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:53:32 +0000

The "Built in Brooklyn" CRAFT FAIR is excited to kick off the holiday season on Small Business Saturday! SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26 12:00 to 6:00 PM at LaunchPad 721 Franklin Avenue (between Park Pl. & Sterling Pl.) Hand-made jewelry, greeting cards, food, gifts and clothing from ALL LOCAL-AREA ARTISANS (can't get much more "small business" than that!). We're on the same block as some wonderful small businesses, including Owl & Thistle General Store, Lily & Fig, Rosebud Vintage and The Candy Rush--stop by and check 'em all out! Please help us spread the word. Thanks!