Some people who live in Bed-Stuy and Clinton Hill have started relying on a Community Supported Agriculture Program that delivers food to a spot near the Navy Yard, says the Daily News, while a one-year-old food co-op in East New York is a big success and Bay Ridge residents are planning to start their own co-op after a Key Food closed. CSAs and co-ops are becoming increasingly popular in a wide variety of Brooklyn neighborhoods as supermarkets shut down. “It’s part of a solution to address a lack of access to healthy food in the neighborhood,” says Jennifer Datka, who helped organize the CSA near the Navy Yard. “The only supermarket in the area has a very small produce section, and [it's] of a rather low quality,” she said. An East New Yorker says wares from the neighborhood’s co-op are much better than what local supermarkets stock: “We have one supermarket where the prices are never what’s advertised in the window, and another one that has a smell to it and very few things that are healthy.”
Farmers Fill Void for Produce-Hungry Residents [NY Daily News]
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