MLK Day of Service! Food Justice! Youth! Save a Brownsville, Brooklyn farm!

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Do you believe every child has the right to eat healthy, to get affordable access to fresh fruits and vegetables!

Then stand up for Green Valley Farm.

Join the community in the greenhouse and make posters, sign petitions, write letters, begging Mayor de Blasio to save Green Valley Farm - instead of bulldozing it to create more apartment buildings.

Martin Luther King lived and died for civil rights - help a deserving community save their one source of fresh food in Browsville, Brooklyn - one of the city's worst food deserts.

We're going to make posters and plaster them on the fences around Green Valley Farm to appeal to the city NOT to destory this farm, which provides fresh food for 1,000 people who live in a food desert - inundated with fast food outlets, bodegas and expensive, old produce.

Brenda Duchene at Green Valley Farm gives local children lessons on how to grow food, why to eat healthy so that they don't get preventable diseases like diabetes and heart disease.

Want to make a real change on the ground in an underserved, deserving neighborhood? Join us for a healthy Brownsville.

Here's what you can do:

- donate art supplies for the posters

- lead youth and families on how to make fantastic posters

- teach healthy cooking or just bring healthy food

- donate fresh produce for healthy cooking

- make posters wilth you and help post them on the fences surrounding the greenhouse

- call the media to tell them to cover this joint city effort to save an invaluable source of health in one of the city's poorest, unhealthiest neighborhoods

- perform music to entertain our artists as they create posters

- teach about gardening, help kids sow some seeds...

If you want to create a MLK Million Youth March to save the garden, then step on up. We need an organizer.

Want to join? Send email to info@seedsinthemiddle.org and tell us what you can do.

Yes, we give community service letters. Appropriate for all ages. Do good - cross the city and help those most in need so they can eat healthy like you.

Want to do something about disparities? This is your chance.

NEED MORE INFO? CALL BRENDA AT 718-498-3174

See info on Green Valley Farm at these links:

http://www.volunteermatch.org/results/opp_detail.jsp?oppid=2238638

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/12/09/brownsville-community-garden/

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/gardeners-protest-plans-dig-brownsville-urban-farm-article-1.2914399

http://brooklyn.news12.com/news/brooklyn-residents-rally-to-save-farm-in-brownsville-1.12772411