The C.S.A. (Community Supported Agriculture) group has been based at the Food Bank on 116th Street for the past decade and is now member-run.
They have a new name: Harlem Community Farm Share.
The basic idea is that they are a bunch of folks who have joined together to buy shares of the harvest of small, organic, family farms before the growing season begins. The farm cooperative they’re working with — a group Amish and Mennonite farmers from Pennsylvania called Lancaster Farm Fresh — will deliver shares of their vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers each Friday from the middle of May until sometime in November.
They are dedicated to making good veggies available for everyone in the Harlem, so they have developed a pay structure where, for roughly every three full-paying members they get, they can subsidize another TWO MEMBERS at a lower rate.
In other words, the more members they get, the more veggies we can make available to folks at all income levels.
In about a month or two, some of their Amish farmers will be coming into the city to have a potluck with them – they “don’t know if the horses and buggy can make it all the way to Harlem…,” we bet it’ll be fresh!
Get your farm on and become a member on their new site: harlemcommunityfarmshare.wordpress.com
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