Most March mornings, brownstones in Brooklyn aren’t teeming with turnips, parsnips and carrots still dusted with dirt from a harvest that is only hours old.

Janice Novet’s Park Slope home is temporarily littered with boxes of organic produce for her fellow shareholders’ final winter pickup for the Park Slope Community Supported Agriculture . The last shipment signifies the beginning of the next round of citywide sign ups for a share of this summer’s fresh fruits and vegetables from a nearby farm, the answer to doing it yourself.

A CSA is a partnership between a neighborhood in New York City and a “local” farm. According to Just Food, an organization that helps set up the partnerships, a CSA starts with a farmer and ends with fresh produce in a family’s kitchen, or close to it.

Most New Yorkers do not have enough space to plant their own fruits and vegetables, but this spring a growing number are adopting a mantra from Wall Street; if you can’t have your own, buy a share in someone else’s. 

“Eight years ago when we tried to get people to join they would say ‘What is a CSA?’” said Judy Janda, who co-founded the Park Slope CSA. “Now we have people asking us, ‘How do we join?’”

The group began as a 35-share location and is now at capacity with 120 shares and a waiting list of about 10 people.