Seeds in the Middle:

Nancie L. Katz, Executive Director

Solomon Long, Director of Education

Joseph Cabral, Director of Soccer/Lead Coach

Errol Rose, Director of Sports/Community Outreach

Clara Kirkland, Principal, Public School 221, pilot Hip2B Healthy School

Richard J. Gordon, MD, FACC, Medical and Scientific Advisor

Brooklyn Crown Eagles:

Joseph Cabral, Director of Soccer/Lead Coach

Errol Rose, Community Outreach Coordinator, Chair - Soccer for Harmony

Zoe Schweitzer, Volunteer Coordinator

Rachel Bogin, Volunteer Soccer Coach

Mordechai Roth, Co-Director, Community Outreach

Zumba Returns!

Let's get fit for spring and zumba! A fun, high energy class for all ages (yes, that means you, Mom!). Join us at PS 221 gym on Fridays at 6 pm, starting March 30. Email us for more info!

Up for a Morning Run? Raise your Test Score!

Check out how kids are getting fit! Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday am, we run together. Hip2B Healthy Runners win free coupons to the Hip2B Healthy Market. All parents welcome! Monday and Wednesdays at 7 am, Fridays at 7:30! Did you know fit kids score higher on tests?

Thank you, Whole Foods!

Our Hip2B Healthy Market ambassadors and their classmates were given the grand tour of Whole Foods - a main supplier of their store - which offers healthy snacks for less than the cost of junk food at the bodegas. Thanks, Justin's Nut Butter for the free samples! Students got to choose which snacks were healthy to sell to their peers.

Worms, worms, worms...

Students and teachers were thrilled to welcome new environmental friends. Worms! Now they're eating apples and vegetables just to ensure their squiggly friends have plenty to munch on.

Shall We Dance?

Seeds in the Middle is proud to welcome Dancing Classrooms - ballroom dancing for our fifth graders! Arts are an integral part of being healthy! And nothing like dancing! Remember "Mad Hot Ballroom?"

Thanks to all who made our first Soccer for Harmony event a success!

Special thanks to the law offices of Richard Wright for his generous donation and to Modell's. Thank you, 71st Precinct and Community Affair Officer Vincent Martinos, Crown Heights Jewish Community Council President Eli Cohen, 71st Community Council President Karl Cohen, Sen. Eric Adams, Mendy's Deli, Joya Restaurant, Soya Food, and many more...

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And thank you, vendors and jazz artist Richard Miller and friends, for a festive crafts fair at PS 221. Stay tuned for the next chance to buy exquisite handmade gifts from talent like Evelyn Dorell, Lillian Brown, Dallas & Dynasty and more...

We welcome our first Hip2B Healthy ambassadors! See them at the first Healthy School Fundraising Expo.

Let's thank Chef Brian Ray, for his tips on how to cook healthy, deliciously, nutritiously and joyfully.

Thank you, Right To Dream USA, for the cocktail party for our soccer kids at Seeds in the Middle! Stay tuned for our indoor winter programs!

Farmer's Market Last Day Click the image and view the album

Thank you to all who enjoyed our Crown Heights Farmers Market! Check out our mention in Bed-Stuy Patch!

See our last day at Hamilton Metz Field as PS 221 students visit and question farmers!

Harvest Day - 2011 Click the image and view the album

Thank you to all who participated in our Annual Harvest Day at PS221!

FDNY Chef's Night Click the image and view the album

Thanks, Firefighter Khalid Baylor for the best firefighter Chef's Night we ever had. You wow'ed the families with that sautéed broccoli and fancy meatballs at PS 221 on our first Chef's Night of the school year.

A heartfelt thanks to all of our generous restaurants, donors, and supporters at the first-ever Field-to-Fork TASTES of Brooklyn event! As the steel pan played, our chefs served glorious delicacies. We are so grateful. See our photos at Brooklyn Exposed!

Sign up for Crown Heights Spring Soccer Now!
Spring season begins Monday, April 16.

First-ever Crown Heights Farmers Market

David Appel, MD, director of Montefiore Medical Center's School Health Program, named by New York Magazine as one of New York's "influentials."

Jimmy Bradley, chef/owner of top-rated Manhattan restaurants, The Red Cat and The Harrison

Fern Gale Estrow, a Registered Dietitian and founder of The FGE Food and Nutrition Team, whose focus is improving health and quality of life through integration of programs affiliated with food, nutrition education, clinical support, media literacy, and/or policy development.

Robert Karp, MD, Professor of Pediatrics at SUNY-Downstate Medical Center and author of "A Teacher's Guide to Pediatric Nutrition."

Yale Club Chef Charles Kehrli

Mary Leou, Ph.D, Director of the Wallerstein Collaborative for Urban Environmental Education at NYU, and Director of the Environmental Conservation Education Program in the Department of Teaching and Learning. (Dr. Leou has over 20 years of experience in urban environmental education. She has received numerous grants to develop school programs, teacher education initiatives, and environmental curricula. She is the former Chair of the Environmental Education Advisory Council and serves on numerous boards in the metropolitan area including Nature Network, Metro Forest Council and a member of the NYS Outdoor Education Association's Environmental Literacy Committee.)

Sue Torres, chef/owner of top-rated Manhattan restaurant, Suenos