Fort Greene/Clinton Hill Food Co-op Blog Launched

I'm happy with Fairway. I don't know if they have a delivery service but if they deliver they have everthing you need organic and non-organic. Its not too crowded and its pleasant with lots of parking spaces.

Posted by: guest at December 31, 2007 1:20 PM

Good luck, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill on your food coop initiative! Hope you succeed. Good for you for getting organized and making this kind of effort.

signed, PLG resident where we'd love to have an awesome organic and upscale grocery, too.

Posted by: guest at December 31, 2007 1:30 PM

Fairway is nice but rather useless to us carless masses.

Posted by: guest at December 31, 2007 1:32 PM

all valid points Brooklynnative but as a relative newcomer to the Park Slope Coop I didn't like the vibe. I think a Ft Greene/Clinton Hill coop would do well. It would be walking distance unlike the other cooperate owned venues. It is also accessible to Bed-Stuy. They could also accept Food Stamp cards to give lower income shoppers healthier food options.

Posted by: guest at December 31, 2007 2:03 PM

The old residents of FG and CH are unlikely to be interested in joining a communist organization, and I suspect the number of hippie gentrifiers may not be enough to support it either.

Posted by: guest at December 31, 2007 2:07 PM

They are a bunch of angry hippies at the PS coop.

Posted by: guest at December 31, 2007 2:27 PM

Not interested.

Posted by: guest at December 31, 2007 4:31 PM

There will be a lot of non-plused hipsters in PS in CH.

Posted by: guest at December 31, 2007 4:33 PM

1:32 take the the B61. slowly but surely, they have better produce.

Posted by: guest at December 31, 2007 4:37 PM

I belonged to a food co-op when I lived in the Hudson Valley. When I moved to Park Slope in 1980, I inquired about joining the co-op on Union Street. I was told, 'oh, we've got enough members and aren't taking any new ones.' Kind of made sense; you can't have more members than there is work to do. Later I learned that there are all sorts of factions at the Park Slope Food Co-Op and guessed that I probably had gotten bogus information from some disgruntled member. Just as well, I decided, just as well.

Posted by: guest at December 31, 2007 4:56 PM

Some PS coop members are well off enough they don't need discounted grocery. And why are they snooty?

Posted by: guest at December 31, 2007 5:03 PM

I live down the street from the PS coop and just shope at key foods and natrual land.

Posted by: guest at December 31, 2007 6:17 PM

I'm a member of the PS Food Co-op, and I don't find the members to be any more snooty, snarky, arrogant, etc than any other group of folks found in any other grocery store in Brooklyn or Manhattan.

Perhaps there are a higher proportion of crunchy granola types to be found shopping there than in other grocery stores, but most folks are suprisingly friendly and accomodating, especially considering the madness of the place (i.e., it's incredibly crowded during any time most average working folks want to shop). And I'll admit that the work aspect can be a pain in the neck sometimes. But its not as bad as I thought it would be when I started, and I kind of like knowing more about the details of the food I buy, as well as the feeling of... community that I get shopping there.

Bottom line: what keeps me a member is the fact that I save a ton of cash by shopping there.

Posted by: guest at December 31, 2007 6:36 PM

As an anthropological observer (who does not live in Park Slope or Ft. Greene/Clinton Hill): I see absolutely no difference between the "types" of inhabitants in these three neighborhoods. The mix of yuppie-ish families and hipster-type singles I've seen in Ft. Greene park and along Myrtle Avenue are EXACTLY the same as the ones I see on 7th or 5th Ave in the Slope, except that the Slope ones might look a bit dorkier and the Ft. Greene/CH ones appear to be more stylized and self-conscious. I don't understand the animosity or competition. You people are ALL THE SAME!

Posted by: guest at December 31, 2007 6:49 PM

6:49 are you an anthropologist or just an observer or just appending the word to sound informed? FYI, we are ways apart:
-we have no food coop like PS
-we have fewer SUVs parked on the streets
-we have fewer twin strollers in FG
-we have fewer cafes and bistros
-we have more hi-rise going up
-etc

We are going to secede from your established and comfortable culture.

Posted by: guest at December 31, 2007 7:40 PM

Ah yes, the rebels and non-conformists of Ft. Greene and Clinton Hill. Too cool for school, not.

Posted by: guest at December 31, 2007 8:09 PM

You know it, 7:40, Ft. Greene (and by extension, you) is STREET! Damn, son! You keep it real, "homes," you keep it REAL. WORD! Peace for the New Year, you mufuckin' badass.

Posted by: guest at January 1, 2008 1:05 PM

i heart the PSFC, an establishment full of good food and good people. if you think the folks there are snobs or grumpy then maybe you should take a look in the mirror, hmm?

Posted by: guest at January 1, 2008 1:05 PM

Despite being a co-op the PSFC is a business, and successful businesses are highly adaptable. So they listen to reasons prospective customers reject them like this. To NOT do that, to just get defensive and dismissive, and have no interest in anybody else joining the co-op - that's exactly the attitude that's turning people off. For me, the idea of joining a group where the longtime members are going to totally control everything and there won't be room for newer members to change anything, ugh, no thanks. That's the number one reason any nonprofit fails, is refusal to adapt and change. Look it up. There's tons of papers on that out there.

Posted by: guest at January 1, 2008 1:20 PM