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Central Brooklyn Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA)

NYCCAH — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:00:59 +0000

The new season of the Central Brooklyn Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) will begin Thursday, June 13th, and continue every Thursday through November 7th. The official word: “‘Our CSA’s mission is to ‘make fresh, healthy produce, direct from the farmer available and accessible to any Central Brooklyn resident, regardless of economic status,’ said Joel Berg, the Coalition’s executive director. In addition to fresh, organic, affordable vegetables, the Central Brooklyn CSA will once again be offering an optional fruit share to its members. Each member receives a ‘share of vegetables:a full share will feed 3-4 people and a half-share will feed 1-2 people depending on your typical diet. We only have a limited amount of shares available for everyone, so don’t wait to purchase your share. To ensure that our shares are affordable for everyone, we offer flexible payment options for low-income households, and SNAP (formerly known as ‘Food Stamps’) benefits are also accepted to purchase vegetable and fruit shares…. This year the Central Brooklyn CSA will be partnering with Windflower Farm, a small organic farm in Valley Falls, located in the Taconic Hills between the Hudson River and the Vermont border.” The shares will be available for pick-up at Hebron Seventh Day Adventist Church, at 1256 Dean Street at the corner of New York Avenue, and members will be able to pick up their shares from 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday evenings. The deadline to purchase shares in full is April 19th. Contact details: EMAIL- <a href="mailto:centralbrooklyncsa@gmail.com">centralbrooklyncsa@gmail.com</a>; or PHONE- 212-825-0028 for more information; or GO TO- the website for an application. <a href="http://centralbrooklyncsa.wordpress.com/">Central Brooklyn CSA</a> [Official Site] Or print the <a href="http://centralbrooklyncsa.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/cbcsa-membership-agreement-form-2013.pdf">form</a> from here.

EAT LOCAL ORGANIC FARM FRESH PRODUCE AND EGGS JOIN OUR PARK SLOPE CSA

commonhandsfarm — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:18:06 +0000

Common Hands Farm will be offering fresh weekly farm shares to our partner location Brookyn Boulders on 3rd and Degraw. Establish a personal relationship to your local hudson valley farms and food! in exchange for your support in helping us grow our new and rapidly expanding local food endeavor. reduce your food miles, eat food that is sustainably and organically grown. we offer produce shares, with add on egg and fruit shares for those looking to live a really healthy direct farm-consumer diet. taste the difference between mass produced food from california, and organic, food grown with love and PICKED THE SAME DAY YOU RECEVE IT! sign up this week and get 20% off of an additional fruit share! for more info go to: <a href="http://www.commonhandscsa.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.commonhandscsa.com</a>

Support a local farm. Join a Community Supported Agriculture

commonhandsfarm — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 22:03:38 +0000

Hey Friends and Neighbors, CSA Members, Market Shoppers, and anyone who eats! Currently it is the freezing cold middle of winter and the last thing on your mind is spring veggies ...Or maybe because because we are in a deep freeze you are dreaming of fresh healthy plant food! Our winter days are spent looking through seed catalogues at all the exciting things we want to grow this year... (Some new additions will be sweet potatoes, strawberries, additional melon varieties, and a more colorful and extensive collection of heirloom tomatoes...yum!) Common Hands Farm delivers fresh farm shares to members who pick up at numerous locations in Columbia County, as well as Brooklyn Boulders located on 3rd ave and Degraw in Park Slope. This is a unique opportunity to directly support young farmers raising sustainably grown food, and to full immerse oneself in what it means to have a healthy, local and diverse diet. The produce in our shares is often harvested the same day as delivery-- how could food possibly taste fresher and better? Something that consumers don't often know is that CSA members that are able to sign up early in the winter months, are immensely valuable to farmers who are trying to buy crucial things like seed and equipment for the coming year. We work hard to make our CSA manageable, working with feedback from our members we have allowed for a certain amount of item switching so you arent ever stuck with vegetables you dont like. nobody wants that... We are also flexible with our payment plan and people can pay us in two installments so it is less fi nancial investment right away. Even if you cant even do that for a couple of weeks, it means most to us to know you are on board. we also work with EBT and FMNP food stamps. talk to us more about payment options by emailing us at <a href="mailto:hudsonlocale@gmail.com">hudsonlocale@gmail.com</a> We really hope you join us this year and share this offer with as many friends as you can. If not, share our endeavor with as many people as you can anyway. It takes a whole community’s support to get a new farm off the ground. We look forward to hearing from you! <a href="http://www.commonhandscsa.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.commonhandscsa.com</a> to sign up/for more info, or email us at <a href="mailto:hudsonlocale@gmail.com">hudsonlocale@gmail.com</a>

New CSA Coming to Prospect Heights!

Toasty — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:06:33 +0000

A new CSA is coming to Prospect Heights in partnership with <a href="http://www.lancasterfarmfresh.com/">Lancaster Farm Fresh Cooperative</a>, a group of 75 organic Amish farmers. The CSA is trying to recruit at least 30 full-share members by April 20. A half share of organic vegetables costs $450 for 25 weekly deliveries; there are also fruit and flower shares. The shares will be distributed weekly from mid-May to the end of October at Brooklyn People’s Pottery, 603 Bergen Street. If you are interested, email <a href="mailto:csa@lancasterfarmfresh.com">csa@lancasterfarmfresh.com</a>, call 717.656.3533, or check out the <a href="http://www.lancasterfarmfresh.com/csa/summerapplication">summer application</a>.

Are y'all up on Brooklyn Bread?

nofay — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:12:59 +0000

GREAT free magazine about the whole artisinal organic sustainable food movement in BK. I LOVE it! If you havent already, check it! <a href="http://www.brooklynbreadpress.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.brooklynbreadpress.com/</a>

Local food raffle and swap meet

pitu — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:16:03 +0000

<a href="http://tradeup.bigcartel.com/products" rel="nofollow">http://tradeup.bigcartel.com/products</a> <blockquote>TradeUP! is a series of swap meets and online raffles that allow you to get or learn something new for next to nothing. Our first TradeUP! is food-themed, and one third of the proceeds from this raffle benefit St. John's Bread and Life soup kitchen in Bed-Stuy, which currently has a matching campaign for Brooklyn donations made possible by the Brooklyn Community Foundation. The remaining proceeds support the work we do at Brooklyn Based. Tickets are on sale now through Saturday, Sept. 25 at noon. Winners will be announced later that day at Littlefield in Gowanus, where, from 4-7 pm, you can trade in your cookbooks, spices, and gadgets for fresh kitchen goods. If you can't make it, we'll mail or deliver your prize afterward. Now go on and test your luck--the more tickets you buy the better your chances of winning.</blockquote> <img src="http://brooklynian.com/forum/my-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_biggrin.gif" title=":D" class="bb_smilies" />