Bay Ridge CSA

Information, Resources, and Tools for the Family

• Cook’s Thesaurus: Cooking encyclopedia covering thousands of ingredients and kitchen tools
• A Bunch of Brooklyn CSAs!: Bay Ridge CSA is featured as one of many Brooklyn CSAs!
• What is a CSA and why does it matter?: By making a financial commitment to a farm, people become “members” (or “shareholders,” or “subscribers”) of the CSA. To find out more, and to find out about CSAs in your area, visit Local Harvest.

• Family Guides and Activities
• • My visit to an organic farm…
  • Organic Kids Club
  • National Garden Association: Kids Garden News
  • Coloring book for kids about organic farming and conservation
  • Environmental conservation teaching resources
• About Our Watersheds
• • The Hudson River Watershed for Hearty Roots Farm
  • Our water supply in the City: The Croton Watershed

• Eating Locally in New York City

• • Local Foods Wheels
  • Chew On This Local Produce in NYC
    
  • Hearty Roots Produce List
  • Enter your location and a see how far your 100 mile radius extends
  • 10 Reasons to Eat Local on the Eat Local Challenge
  • “Local Fork” food directory within 250 miles of New York City

Publications

• Edible Brooklyn Published every other month, celebrates the borough’s food culture season by season.
• The Valley Table Produced Quarterly, exclusively devoted to regional farms, food and cuisine. We support local agriculture and efforts to strengthen the links among producers, marketers, restaurateurs and consumers. We urge you to patronize businesses that feature wholesome, Hudson Valley products and to support economic initiatives that benefit regional agriculture and related efforts.

Organizations

• Eat Well: Find local, sustainable, and organic food.
• Just Food: A non-profit working to develop a just and sustainable food system in the New York City region.
• Local Harvest: Find locally grown and organic produce in your neighborhood
• Organic Consumer Association: The Organic Consumers Association is an online and grassroots non-profit public interest organization campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability.
• Slow Food NYC: New York City chapter of the international organization dedicated to a food system that is good clean and fair.
• CENYC Greenmarkets: The Council on the Environment of NYC (CENYC) is a hands-on non-profit that has been improving New York City’s environment for over thirty years. CENYCs dedicated staff green our neighborhoods, create the environmental leaders of the future, promote waste prevention and recycling, and run the largest farmers market program in the country.
• GreenThumb: Established in 1978, GreenThumb remains the nation’s largest urban gardening program, assisting over 600 gardens and nearly 20,000 garden members throughout New York City. Our aim is to foster civic participation and encourage neighborhood revitalization while preserving open space.

News Clips

• In a Downturn, a Growth Opportunity? (NY Times 02/13/09): “With the conviction that even with most share prices rising, a CSA is still a good economic deal as well as a way of addressing environmental and food safety concerns and of satisfying a desire for fresh local food.”
• Is a Food Revolution Now in Season? (NY Times 03/22/09): “After being largely ignored for years by Washington, advocates of organic and locally grown food have found a receptive ear in the White House, which has vowed to encourage a more nutritious and sustainable food supply.”
• Eating Food That’s Better for You, Organic or Not (NY Times 03/22/09): “Today, most farmers who practice truly sustainable farming, or what you might call ‘organic in spirit,’ operate on small scale, some so small they can’t afford the requirements to be certified organic by the government. Others say that certification isn’t meaningful enough to bother. These farmers argue that, ‘When you buy organic you don’t just buy a product, you buy a way of life that is committed to not exploiting the planet’.”