Courtesy of Flatbush Farm Share.
How are you getting your greens this summer? If the answer is the frozen food aisle of C-Town, consider signing up with a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) group instead.
The produce-buying collectives, which offer a weekly delivery of farm-fresh produce at prices less than you’d pay at a grocery store or green market, are a booming business. There are 20 new CSAs in the city this year, seven of them in Brooklyn alone. Groups in Fort Greene, Bay Ridge, and East Williamsburg have been booked solid for months (next year, sign up in February), but we found seven CSAs around Brooklyn that are still taking new members. Read the rest of this entry »
Liberty Sunset Garden Center, photo by Marie Viljoen.
If you’re anything like us, you’ve got the gardening bug BAD this year, and here’s a little good news/bad news for all you would-be green thumbs: the beloved Liberty Sunset Garden Center in Red Hook is having a massive going-out-of- business-sale and we hear that just about everything is half off. Our friend and occasional contributor Marie Viljoen from 66SquareFeet blog has the full story and some glorious photos: She found “figs, citrus, roses, blackberries, more raspberries, kiwi vines, many hardy trees, like magnolias, birches and maples, and a lot else besides.” Bring cash, and be prepared to wait. Here’s more from Marie, including the coordinates.
Courtesy of Flatbush Farm Share.
How are you getting your greens this summer? If the answer is the frozen food aisle of C-Town, consider signing up with a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) group instead.
The produce-buying collectives, which offer a weekly delivery of farm-fresh produce at prices less than you’d pay at a grocery store or green market, are a booming business. There are 20 new CSAs in the city this year, seven of them in Brooklyn alone. Groups in Fort Greene, Bay Ridge, and East Williamsburg have been booked solid for months (next year, sign up in February), but we found seven CSAs around Brooklyn that are still taking new members. Read the rest of this entry »
