Community Garden's Bicycle Blender Project tackles access to healthy food, renewable energy

NEW YORK—The Hattie Carthan Community Market is literally making residents work for their smoothies this summer. Thanks to a city grant, the organization will buy another bicycle blender after a fire destroyed $15,000 worth of equipment in 2010.

“We are teaching the community about renewable energy,” said Yonnette Fleming, vice president of the Hattie Carthan Community Garden, located in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The market is an initiative of the garden.

“It’s a change in lifestyle, not just food,” she said.

The community garden received $2,200 to re-launch their juicing program, which offers free juices and smoothies to residents in the neighborhood using produce grown in the garden. A blender is connected to the front of the bike, and the energy generated from the spinning wheels is used to blend the ingredients.

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