What an amazing first three week for the CS City Surfers! It’s been a bit rainy, but that’s not stopping us from playing games, staying active, and trying new things.

Our focus this past month has been teamwork. Communication, cooperation and collaboration have been the foundation to making our team grow. Day by day our City Surfers’ teamwork skills are being put to the test. Whether we are growing as leaders through games and challenges, bike riding, exploring NYC, or by taking pride in our crops, we get things done right!

In a couple weeks we are supposed to shut down our farm for the winter. However, how can we prepare for winter when our farm is still harvesting lots and lots of crops-- Peppers to be more exact! 
We have: Habanero, Serrano, Jalapeno, Hot Portugal, Lady Bell, Red Bell, Thai Chili, and Hungarian Wax Peppers. With all these delicious and super HOT peppers we needed to figure out what to make. Our first experiment was pickled Hungarian Wax Peppers. It was a perfect combination of hot and sweet. Everyone was pretty excited to try it and all reservations were gone after the first few ranted and raved about how delicious it was! Here is a few reactions!

 

 

Contact: Mac Levine

Concrete Safaris

347.267.2903

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** Media Advisory **

CONCRETE SAFARIS CITY SURFERS PROGRAM GETS A BOOST TO HELP EAST HARLEM COMMUNITY THRIVE

Several Organizations to Benefit from Active Healthy Living Grants

New York City, October 5, 2012 – Concrete Safaris and several Bronx, East Harlem and Washington Heights community organizations will announce a boost to their active, healthy living programming on Tuesday, October 9th at Concrete Safaris’ Green Exercise Day in conjunction with the Coca-Cola Foundation’s active, healthy living grant initiative.

Youth from PS 102 Elementary School in E. Harlem will participate in the Green Exercise Day, an obstacle course of outdoor activity, environmental health education, gardening and fun.  The event will take place in a garden of NYC Housing Authority’s Jefferson Houses, located directly in front of PS 102. Brief remarks will be made by Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito and Coca-Cola in addition to the event’s host, Concrete Safaris.

The grant donation to Concrete Safaris will benefit their City Surfers Program, which aims to train over one thousand youth to exercise outdoors throughout the year. The following organizations are also grant recipients and will participate in the event: Community Association of Progressive Dominicans, Downtown Bronx Economic Development Corporation, E. Harlem Council for Community Improvement and The Children’s Aid Society.

The Coca-Cola Foundation is the philanthropic arm of The Coca-Cola Company. The grant is part of the Company’s initiative to aid local organizations in their quest to promote health and wellness, advance education, and spark environmental stewardship.

WHO: Mac Levine, Executive Director, Concrete Safaris

Bryan Vitale, Outdoor Education Director, Concrete Safaris

Melisa Mark Viverito, New York City Council Member (District 8)

Donna Cirolia, VP, Public Affairs, Coca-Cola Refreshments

Representatives from Community Association of Progressive Dominicans, Downtown Bronx Economic Development Corporation, E. Harlem Council for Community Improvement and The Children’s Aid Society

WHAT: Concrete Safaris’ Green Exercise Day

WHEN: Tuesday, October 9, 2012, 9 am-2 pm, Remarks – 10:15 am

WHERE: The Playground Garden (at Jefferson Houses/ in front of PS 102)

315 E. 113^th Street, south side of street (between 112^th and 113^th Streets)

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Check out our new video made by Outdoor Education Director Bryan Vitale: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfI3cJIl7mk&feature=youtu.be

"This is the best field trip EVER!" Jacob, age 9, exclaimed somewhere between hiking 3+ miles from Jefferson Houses in East Harlem to Highbridge Park, eating 5 plates of food and 2 icies, rock climbing with REI, inline skating with NYC Parks, watching a belly dancing show, checking out paper mache giraffes by CAW, and more! Hike the Heights 8 ROCKED buckets of fun!!!! Thank you to CLIMB for making a beautiful event! Kadidia is featured in the photo above.