About this project
First off THANK YOU for taking a look at our project!
In the fall of 2009 when we opened our current location we were approached by a few teachers we knew, asking if they could bring their classes to visit our space and learn about food sourcing, butchering, and cooking. We immediately said yes and have hosted 6 visits in the last year paid for out of our own pocket. We have received incredible feedback from the students and teachers and realized this is something special that we want to offer to as many classes as we can. A huge bonus for us is that it's really fun to have kids around, and through education we can really inspire them.
"It's a trip the kids never forget and I know makes a big impact on them...because they talk about it months and months later. Today right after we got back, I was working at my desk, and I heard Shea speaking to another teacher. He was telling her how she should visit the shop, and about the difference between your meat and conventional meat, and how everything tasted." -Jenny Kessler, Automotive High School Brooklyn, NY.
We love hosting classes in our space but of course there are costs. We pay our instructors, pay for the materials and have to keep our space up to date, spic and span and running smoothly. We also have to make sure word gets out to as many NYC teachers as possible(TELL YOUR FRIENDS!), and that we can schedule them in an easy and effective way.
We're looking for your help so that we can cover our costs and get this program off the ground. Once we get started there's no telling how far we can take it.
At the Brooklyn Kitchen and the Meat Hook we are committed to responsibly sourced products. This is true from the knives, pans and tools we sell to the meat, dairy and vegetables. We make every effort to know where our products are coming from, who's making them and the hands they pass through on their way to us. We love to share that knowledge.
We also know that the kitchen is a place of endless learning, and that's why we set up our classrooms, we call them labs.
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on March 14, 2011.
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at the $25 pledge we'll send you a Brooklyn Kitchen Dough Scraper.
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how can you go wrong? in exchange for a $50 pledge you get a Meat Hook Beer Koozy, and one sausage, or a lb of local beans, flour, or grain. You also receive all rewards above.
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For $100 we'll give you a Meat Hook or Brooklyn Kitchen T-shirt of your choice. You also receive all rewards above.
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Give us $250 and we'll give you 2lbs of the Meat Hook's famous sausages! You also receive all rewards above.
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a $500 pledge will really help sustain our program. You will receive a personal letter from the class that your pledge funds when they visit our program. You also receive all rewards above.
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You and a guest get to attend one of our recreational cooking classes at the Brooklyn Kitchen to see our program hands on! You also receive all rewards above.
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Brooklyn Grange is a rooftop farming business located in New York City. We raised over $20,000 in 2010 to help fund the installation of our first farm, which is a one-acre vegetable farm on the roof of a hundred year old factory building in Queens. We are opening our second farm this spring in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and will be expanding our total farm area by more than double. In two years we have grown over 25,000 lbs of fresh vegetables, hosted thousands of school children, and captured millions of gallons of rainwater at our farm.
Related to this project, we've enjoyed keeping bees on our farm not only for their honey production and pollination of our fruiting crops, but for the beekeeping community that they attract. We've had immense interest from the NYC community in purchasing our honey, learning more about bees, and getting more involved. This project will serve that interest, and the increase in honey production will be a valuable source of sales for the farm. The proceeds from the apiary will serve as a sustainable, long-term source of sales which will contribute to keeping our farms running and thriving for years to come.
