Lefferts Volunteers Get Credit at Park Slope Food Coop

I know a lot of people in this neighborhood that don't want to join the Park Slope Food Coop because they don't want to have to do a work shift. But now they've got another option: by volunteering for the Lefferts Farm Co-op in our neck of the woods, you can get credit for doing Park Slope Food Coop shifts. Help build a local community group and get excellent, cheap groceries at the same time: win win!

The first step is to join the Lefferts Farm effort, if you haven't already. You can find out about meetings on the group's Meetup site. There are a bunch of tasks people can do for Lefferts Farm, and you can read about those on the pdf below.

In order to get PSFC credit, you'll need to become a PSFC member, and you do that by first attending an orientation session. There you will learn the arcane do's and don't of Coop membership, the store's curious mores, and what it has to offer. In order to stay active as a PSFC member, you need to work 2 hours and 45 minutes every 4 weeks. Arranging to get credit for work done for Lefferts is a bit complicated, and the instructions won't make much sense until after you know something about the PSFC, but here they are in pdf form for the so inspired. 

Also, one thing people may not realize about the PSFC is that it's pretty easy to get there from here: you can walk through the park, or take the B41 or a dollar van to Grand Army Plaza. (The Coop is at 782 Union St.) If you've got a ton of groceries to carry on the way back, you can get one of the Coop workers to walk with you with a cart to Grand Army Plaza; that way you don't have to carry the groceries the whole way.

(Photo: Joel Zimmer)