The Blk Projek promoted community supported agriculture. Members would buy shares of a farm’s harvest, which would be distributed at a local site once a month.
Contact Tanya Fields via http://theblkprojek.wordpress.com
La Finca del Sur/South Bronx Farm encourages people to take an active role in the food process, by growing their own produce on part of the largest urban farm in the Bronx
Contact Demetrio Surun at (718)549-2411:
Grand Concourse & 138th Street
Bronx, NY 10451
consorte119@yahoo.com
New York Restoration Project (NYRP) helps manage and connect people with community gardens, including14 in the Bronx.
Contact Rachel Brody at (212)333-2552:
254 W31st Street, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10001
rbrody@nyrp.org
Project HOPE offers free weekly cooking classes, which introduce people to new fruits and vegetables, and show participants how to cook traditional recipes in healthier ways.
Contact Ruth Santana at (718)589-2440
The Strategic Alliance for Health is working to get the Department of Education to improve health standards for food by monitoring school lunches as well as vending machine snacks.
Contact Geysil Arroyo at garroyo@health.nyc.gov
Wholesale Greenmarket is helping farmers whose businesses were hurt by the construction of Yankee Stadium, by relocating them to a site near the Fulton Fish Market and reaching out to more than 600 business who thought they had disappeared
Contact Eddie Cabrera at (212)571-0778
51 Chambers Street, Suite 1231
New York, NY 10007
consorte119@yahoo.com
A version of this story appeared in the December 2009/January 2010 issue of The Hunts Point Express.