‘Radical’ Cutbacks Coming To Long Island Urban Farm, Brooklyn Grange; CSA, Farm Stand End
“I cannot imagine a greater loss for the neighborhood. I am so upset about this,” wrote one neighbor in a local thread.
By Kayla Levy,
Patch Staff
Jan 25, 2022
Excerpt:
Brooklyn Grange, a commercial urban farm that manages sites atop buildings in Brooklyn and Queens, will no longer be growing dozens of market crops — and distributing those in CSA shares and a weekly Saturday market — at its nearly one-acre-large Long Island City site, located at at 37-18 Northern Boulevard, the farm recently announced.
Since Ben Flanner opened Brooklyn Grange’s flagship location in Queens in 2010 (the name comes from a smaller pilot operation in Greenpoint), the farm has grown to include two (even bigger) farming and programming sites in its namesake borough and other projects across Manhattan and Staten Island — all of which the farm will be focusing on in 2022 in lieu of its flagship farm.
