Fort Greene CSA Launches Today

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Today at 4 p.m. the Fort Greene CSA will celebrate its first day of distribution with cooking demonstrations, composting workshops and even some live music. It’ll all go down at the northeast corner of Fort Greene Park at Myrtle and Washington Park. The food buying club, which is many months in the works, currently has more than 60 members that will share in this season’s harvest from participating farmers from New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. The CSA got its start through the joint efforts of MARP, FUREE and Just Food. Given all the talk about the lack of fresh produce items available to residents of the Whitman and Ingersoll Houses, it’s interesting that the CSA was able to sell half its shares to low-income earners through a combination of Food Stamps, subsidies and a revolving loan fund. Nice!

By Brownstoner |