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Dave Burlew, Naturally Grown Gardens organic CSA Farm

Dave Burlew has run the Community Shares Agriculture project on the Goldstein farm in the borough of Roosevelt for the last five years and this year is relocating to a new location -- Hopewell Valley Vineyards in Pennington, New Jersey.

Dave is currently accepting new members for this location. CSA shareholders pay a share and receive fresh organic vegetables every week for approximately 26 weeks beginning in May and ending around Thanksgiving. This includes produce such as leeks, onions, collard greens, chard, peppers, heirloom tomatoes and melons, kale, lettuce, cabbage, cucumbers, scallions, cauliflower, green and dragon tongue beans, and Black Beauty, Clara and Orient charm eggplants.

The CSA offers a more diverse range of the vegetables that can be found in local produce stores, as well as some vegetables that cannot be found in local stores. Burlew doesn't use sprays or treatments on its produce nor does it ship its produce. Customers pick up shares in reusable containers. "The produce goes from the field to the plate," he said. "It's a perfect example of having less of an impact on the environment."

A native of Asbury Park, Burlew has had worked for several years as an apprentice with farmer Ed Libzbarski in Jamesburg and was an organ ic farmer in Vermont previous to this. He also worked at the Whole Earth Center on Nassau Street in Princeton. He attended Long Island University's Southampton College in New York and the University of Hawaii, and studied agriculture at Rutgers University in New Brunswick.

For more information or to sign up for the CSA at Hopewell Valley Vineyards, visit www.naturallygrowngardens.com or e-mail Dave at Farmer_Dave@naturallygrowngardens.com