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The Queens Community House (QCH) Pomonok Farmers' Market debuted on July 7 at 10 a.m. in the parking lot of the Pomonok Community Center, at 67-09 Kissena Boulevard in Flushing.

It will return every Thursday through mid-November and run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The market aims to increase access to affordable, healthy, locally-grown food for the residents of the Pomonok Houses and the surrounding community, where fresh produce is hard to come by.

 

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We were thrilled that Viacom President and CEO Philippe Dauman stopped by to help out at United Neighborhood Houses' 2011 Viacommunity Day. This is the third year UNH has been involved with Viacom's annual corporate service day and it was better than ever.

Volunteers served over 400 lunches to seniors at UNH member Hamilton-Madison House City Hall Senior Center.

They soon may be sneaking cauliflower into the mashed potatoes and making barbecue sauce from scratch at city shelters, day cares and senior centers. Dozens of cooks began nutrition classes and hands-on training last week at a Long Island City industrial kitchen.

"When you use fresh ingredients, it's more exciting to work with," said John Graves, 61, who has cooked for kids at Mosholu Montefiore Community Center for decades. He said he gets bored making the same recipes over and over again on a four-week cycle - and wants the kids at his center to learn how to eat better.

 "I sit at home and watch the cooking channels to get ideas," he said. "My focus is on the younger ones. You can get them to eat more vegetables and things like that and then by the time they're five, they're not afraid of broccoli." The program, called Cooking for Healthy Communities, was developed by United Neighborhood Houses and will eventually extend to hundreds of cooks.

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 The Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project LDC (MARP) received a three-year grant through the Community Experience Partnership to support and expand its Food Access Initiative.

The $210,000 grant over three years will support projects under MARP’s new Myrtle Eats Fresh program, which aims to engage community members of all ages in activities to improve access to healthy, affordable food on Myrtle Avenue, and in the surrounding neighborhoods of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.Projects include a community-run farm stand, creating and expanding community gardens on public housing grounds, a community chef program, and the formation of a hyper-local food policy task force.

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