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March 6, 2008
Local Yokels
We're starting to sense some serious enthusiasm (say that 5 times fast) around the Flea, especially in our home base of Fort Greene/Clinton Hill (represent!). Balancing the need to attract folks from all over to make the market a success every week with the community-building exercise that the Flea has become is part of our core mission. In a perfect world, a Fleaster would come in looking for a deal on a dining set, find one, and also walk out as a new member of the Fort Greene Community Supported Agriculture program.
The new Fort Greene CSA (a neighborhood program that gives city dwellers access to produce and meats from area farms) is hoping to include a lot of lower-income folks from the area—especially public housing residents near DUMBO and the Navy Yard. We're big fans of the local food thing for everyone, so we invited the CSA folks (and their Myrtle Ave. Revitalization Project partners) to have a Flea booth to help with their outreach. Check 'em out and sign 'em up!
Our new pals at the Fort Greene Association will also have a Flea booth, to spread the word about their good deeds, especially their burgeoning "Green Fort Greene" environmental initiative (compact flourescent lightbulbs, etc.) and their work to improve nearby PS 46 on Clermont Ave.
And it turns out that Mr. Kevin McGeary, the Director of Maintenance at our homebase Bishop Loughlin H.S., is a flea market aficionado, and will have a booth to show off his keen antiques eye (we want those glass lamps, Kevin!), and also raise a little extra dough for the school.
Throw in a big rummage sale/fundraiser for the Montessori Day School of Brooklyn on Washington Ave. (Apr. 13)—more on our stoop sale plan later—and the Flea is becoming doers, doodads and do-gooders.
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Fort Greene CSA website is up (and still a work in progress)! Visit www.fortgreenecsa.org for more info, or email csa@fortgreenecsa.org.
Posted by: guest at March 10, 2008 10:41 AM
For those closer to the DUMBO neighborhood, there's also a new DUMBO / Vinegar Hill CSA starting in 2008. We will be hosting a meet and greet with the farmer and signup event at Phoenix House on Tuesday, April 8th. Check out http://www.dumbocsa.org for details!
Posted by: guest at March 28, 2008 2:36 PM
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