See what we did there? The BLK market…but it’s Green.

We’re clever.

The BLK Projek is ecstatic to announce that we will have a small but growing market in February 2012. We are currently looking for vendors and site specific merchants to incubate to sell added-value and hot food.

It is also extremely important that we raise a wee bit more money to supplement the existing funding from Green for All and Jesse Noyes Foundation. Will you help us?

Please donate to create REAL ECONOMIC development opportunities in the Bronx for underserved women and youth. Let’s empower our hood!

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Please join us as we host our Bronx Grub in Manhattan at the BMW Guggenheim Lab. An amazing state-of-the-art, movable space located in the East Village. This will be two jam packed hours of cooking demos, food samples, a live DJ and raffles & giveaways. We have a bio-diesel bus leaving from the Bronx. It’s Free. Get on it. You know you want to.

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The BLK ProjeK is Hiring!

We are super psyched to be able to offer a paid internship to a bright and enthusiastic candidate for the summer and beginning of fall. We are currently looking for a Farmer’s Market Outreach Intern. The ideal candidate will:

• Support the Farmer’s Market & Micro-business Coordinator
• Engage larger community about the farmers market and the micro-business merchant fund
• Attend relevant community meetings with the purpose of outreach engagement
• Flyer, door-knock and canvass the Longwood, Hunts Point and Mott Haven Communities
• Create and maintain a blog and social media platforms in regards to the Farmer’s Market

Qualifications:

• Must be able to work 20 – 25 hours a week and commit to early/mid September
• Spanish is a plus!
• Be articulate, pleasant and possess a great sense of humor
• Comfortable working in a fast paced and slightly noisey environment.
• Have some time flexibility
• Love food, working in the community and thick skinned
• Comfortable blogging and using social media.
• Possess good writing skills
• Compensation includes a stipend and transportation

If you are interested please send your resume, summer availability and a brief paragraph on why you think this position is a good fit for you (this will be reviewed as a writing sample) to ed(at)theblkprojek.org

Please note that you DO NOT have to be a college student to apply, Bronx residents, women, people of color and LGTBQ folks are all strongly encouraged to apply however, we will interview ALL qualified applicants.

Are you ready for Bronx Grub round 2?

We are super excited to be working with The Osborne Association to bring you Flapjack For Family Day.

A fun filled morning of all you can eat wholesome pancakes and food. A celebration of families, communities and the future. Join the BLK Projek and The Osborne Association for great low cost, high quality pancakes, food, games, performances and music.

Help raise funds for a Community Led Farmer’s Market, learn how you can get involved get funds to incubate a farmer’s market business or help plan our first Block by Block Block Party!

Hosted by TastyKeish from WBAI’s Rise Up Radio

Music by DJ T_Elle

Food Prepared by The Osborne Association Students & Volunteers.

Games, Raffles, Prizes. Make sure to bring your whole family.

If you cannot make it please DISTRUBUTE WIDELY and Donate. Help us reach our $3,000 goal so that we may purchase equipment and signage for our Market.

Table Reservation for Large Groups available

Join us Friday, March 11th for our first GRUB DINNER. It is sure to be a blast. RSVP or buy your ticket online to ensure a seat! And make sure to pass it on, this is sure to be a good time.

Please help us welcome our spring semester intern Geo Borden! Geo will be helping out with development research and programming. We feel extremely blessed to have her. We know she is destined for big things!

A litte bit about Geo: a high school senior pursuing an Associates of the Arts in Liberal Arts while earning her high school degree. She describes herself as an unrelenting doodler, and an avid listener of spanish ballads, Big Band Jazz and A Tribe Called Quest . She loves thrift-ing, finding obscure bike routes in the Bronx, reading good novels and dragging my friends to museums.  She hopes to go on and study Urban Policy, Environmental Studies, and Ethnic Studies in college, hopefully in California.

When asked why she wanted to work with TBP she responded, “There’s so much work to be done in achieving food justice and amplifying the voices of underrepresented people in the Bronx; I hope to take part in the change and make someone’s voice a little louder by working with the BLk ProjeK.

Favorite fruit: Pomegranate

Favorite Vegetable: A tie between Zucchini &Mushroom

Her SheRo: I never known a woman who can find a way to be so resilient and strong and still have the best sense of humor like she does. She’s taught me so much and has given me the world, I hope I can live up to the model she’s built for me.

So if you have any questions or send Geo a warm welcome she can be reached at Geo(at)theblkprojek(dot)org

This Thursday is our first day of the Farm Share distribution with Corbin Hill Rd. Farm!

I have been working very dilligently with Hunts Point Alliance for Children to make this happen and it finally is. Who said Hunts Point/Longwood doesn’t want a CSA/Farm Share?

Find out how you can join.

Check out Executive Director Tanya Fields in the Bronx Boro News Section of the Daily News

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