Bed Stuy Farm and Urban Harvest Center
Our volunteers are critical to helping us get healthy meals to hungry families and seniors fighting hunger. Brooklyn Rescue Mission has worked with hundreds of dedicated volunteers over the past 18 years. Our volunteers help our organization to grow food on the Bed-Stuy farm, stock food on the shelves at the pantry and assist families in shopping at our customer choice pantry.
The Brooklyn Rescue Mission Youth and Children’s Program History
Brooklyn Rescue Mission has done a variety of successful youth programming since its inception in 2005. School and book bag giveaways for kids started serving kids and youth programming in 2006.
Brooklyn Rescue Mission has provided for the food needs of the youngest members by providing food assistance for hungry families with children since 2005.
Programs include:
Youth Force Development – The Brooklyn Rescue Mission has hosted over 817 young adults paid interns and over Forty youth volunteers since 2005. Our past interns are now college professors, nurses, military officers, teachers, and new young farmers and community business owners.
Many young people we have mentored have successful defeat generational poverty and overcome juvenile convictions.
Bed-Stuy Farm Youth Success program has provided Food Justice training to children and youth in the community from 2007.
The Brooklyn based urban farm has been a for training place for hundreds of young children and young adults. The Brooklyn Rescue Mission has had over 48 countries from the UN visit Bed-Stuy farm. Brooklyn Rescue Mission Bedstuy farm is a model program that helped hundreds of youth learn how food is grown and harvested.
Baby tote bag give away 2018-2019 – BRMUHC provided new mothers tote bags: items included milk bottles, baby wipes, diapers, and clothing outfits.
Holiday Toy Give away since 2005 – BRMUHC program provides toys to children during the holiday season,
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Rev. Robert Ennis Jackson
BRMUHC has three locations where the organization plants yearly. Brooklyn Rescue Mission has been growing vegetables, fruit, herbs and flowers since 2003. Your donations will help assist us this growing season to plant, cultivate and harvest healthy food for families in the Brooklyn area.
The early morning light inspires moods
The birds sing
the spring blooms the flowers
have fancy names like
Buttercup winter hazel, Christmas-rose
fill city parks
Daffodils and Pink Columbine are also growing in street boxes
A million trees are turning own
Cherry trees blooming street by street
Every year
mothers and father showcase newborns little girls and boys
To all their neighbors
By Robert Ennis Jackson
I’m reaching out to you because we have started a GoFundMe to save the Bed-Stuy farm and Urban Harvest food pantry. For past 17 years, Brooklyn Rescue Mission has served millions of meals to seniors and hungry families with children.
You have helped us on this hunger relief journey and I would like to ask your support for the Brooklyn Rescue Mission annual fundraiser. If you can help me by sending our friendly request for help thru the GoFundMe platform to a few of your friends, it would be great. Our goal is to obtain 100 donors by January 31, 2018. Please consider helping us reach our goal. Here is a convenient link to our campaign.