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'Laid Back' Farm Share Coming to Crown Heights Beer Hall This Summer

 A new location of the Local Roots CSA will operate out of the Berg'n beer hall in Crown Heights this summer.
A new location of the Local Roots CSA will operate out of the Berg'n beer hall in Crown Heights this summer.
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Local Roots NYC

CROWN HEIGHTS — A “laid back” CSA is coming to a beer hall near you.

A half-season, no-volunteering-required farm share is setting up shop at the Crown Heights beer hall Berg’n this summer, offering weekly deliveries of fresh food, produce and products to people who may not want to make a full commitment to a traditional CSA, or community supported agriculture.

Every Wednesday starting June 10th, the Local Roots CSA will distribute shares of vegetables, fruit, milk and eggs and products like granola, chocolate and honey to customers who sign up. Unlike a traditional CSA, Local Roots has no volunteer requirement and runs for only 12 weeks  from early June to late August  instead of the usual 24, organizers said.

“We are the laid back CSA that offers your complete grocery bag, all from local producers,” said founder and program director Wen-Jay Ying.

This is the first CSA location in Crown Heights for Local Roots, which has operated in Manhattan and Brooklyn neighborhoods like Harlem, Alphabet City, Williamsburg and Carroll Gardens since 2011.

Those who want to sign up for the CSA can choose which “shares” they want from an online store on Local Roots' website. Prices range from $265 for the meat share (three pounds of hormone-free, free range meat twice a month) to $30 for an egg share (a dozen eggs twice a month). Shares of vegetables ($185), sausages ($125), fish ($252) and butter ($37) are also available, in addition to individual products like honey, granola and organic pasta.

Pick-up for the shares will take place weekly at Berg'n, located at 899 Bergen St. between Classon and Franklin avenues.

The deadline to sign up for the Local Roots CSA is May 31. For more information, visit localrootsnyc.org.