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East New York Farms! This Web Site: www.neighborhoodlink.com/org/enyfarms/
History ENY Farms! began in 1995 as a vision of a community-based food production, economic development and greening initiative. Several local and citywide organizations came together to assess the opportunities for community development strategies in East New York, Brooklyn, a neighborhood that is plagued by poor access to fresh produce, employment, open space and meaningful programs for youth. In 1997, the current project partners, including the United Community Centers, Genesis Homes/Help USA, the Local Development Corporation of East NY, Cornell Cooperative Extension-NYC and the Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development, received funding to build a market gardening program that draws on the extensive system of neighborhood community gardens to grow food for sale to the local population at affordable prices. East New York Farmers' Market ENY Farms! has been deeply committed to improving the health of local residents through increasing the amount of fresh food in their diets, helping community gardeners to develop their gardens into useable open space, and assisting local entrepreneurs in starting and strengthening their businesses. The program centers around a farmers’ market located on the corner of New Lots Avenue and Barbey Street and takes place every Saturday from June through mid November. As we start the market season in 2002, participants include gardeners from nine community gardens, three backyard gardeners, nine local craftspeople, and three upstate farmers who supply significant amounts of fresh produce to the East New York Community at reasonable prices. COME GET FRESH WITH US! East New York Farmers' Market Every Saturday June 1- Nov 16 10 am - 3 pm corner of New Lots Ave and Barbey St Brooklyn, NY 11207 1 train to New Lots Ave or B15 or B83 bus Our gardeners and farmers also contribute to community food access through their participation in the WIC and senior farmers’ market coupon programs. Through this program, coupons that are redeemable for fresh produce only at farmers’ markets are distributed to seniors and women with young children in the community. In 2002, most of our participating farmers are also eligible to accept EBT (electronic benefits transfer), allowing them to serve consumers who are on public assistance. ENY Farms! provides urban agricultural and business skills workshops for participants in the program who meet on a regular basis to discuss its future. In the coming years, ENY Farms! looks to become a fully participant-run venture, utilizing income raised at the market to support its development and management. The program is in the process of identifying specific gardeners and crafts vendors that can oversee aspects of the program, and teach others skills at which they excel. We also continue to recruit new gardeners and vendors, to keep growing the farmers’ market. ENY Youth Make a Difference! The East New York Farms program is dependent on the twenty youth interns who work at the program each year. These youth help make the market possible by working to set up the market and helping gardeners grow vegetables. Youth also tend their own garden, the UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS COMMUNITY GARDEN, where they grow loads of fresh veggies to sell at the market. Leftovers are donated to Euclid 500, a local food pantry. For more information, please contact: Georgine Yorgey United Community Centers 613 New Lots Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11207 Ph: 718.649.7979, x14 Fax: 718.649-7256 Ojeda Hall-Phillips Local Development Corporation of ENY 80 Jamaica Avenue, 3rd Fl.Brooklyn, NY 11207 Ph: 718.385-6700 Fax: 718.385-7505 |
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