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HATTIE CARTHAN CHICKEN COOPLA FUNDRAISER
SUPPORTERS AND URBAN FARMING ENTHUSIASTS GATHER TO HONOR LIVESTOCK CATALYSTS ,CELEBRATE THE CULTURAL,ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH BENEFITS OF RAISING POULTRY IN THE URBAN CITY AND PROMOTE THE HEALTH VALUE OF POULTRY AND EGGS
The Hattie Carthan Community Farmers’ Market is hosting its first annual Hattie Carthan Chicken coopla featuring a day of educational and cultural activities to increase awareness of the cultural, environmental and health benefits of tending livestock in urban cities.
The Chicken coopla will feature a full range of educational workshops and activities which help to provide education to community gardeners and local residents. A rumba demonstrating the contributions of chicken to human culture will be played and performed by highly seasoned, dedicated artist group Los Afortunados.
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The Hattie Carthan community garden is home to 2 chicken coops and over forty chickens tended by Urban farmer Yonnette Fleming and community volunteers. In 2010, we built our first coop which produced around one hundred fifty dozen eggs that season. In 2011 we added a second coop and tripled the initial amount of 13 hens. In 2011, the garden added eggs to its weekly basket program and expect the amount of eggs produced to increase to approximately four hundred dozen . The chickens also provide our farms and gardens with lots of animal manure and helps to connect seniors and youths by the telling of life stories which may include raising animals on the farm. The chickens have been featured in a plethora of articles i.e Our Times Press newspaper, CNN money, NY1 , NY Daily news, WNYC Leonard Lopate Show :- the chicken or the egg
The market is a place where conversations about food and farm issues happen and culturally appropriate foods are considered vital to community nutrition. The space is a safe, multigenerational place for community socialization and healthy cultural activities. The Hattie Carthan Community Farmers’ Market is a community’s effort to reclaim its agricultural heritage and contribute to the cultural, social and economic vitality of Central Brooklyn.
