Why Naftali Hanau purveys free range meat to kosher consumers, and what it’s like going green in Crown Heights,Kitchen Encounters: Not Your Mother’s Brisket,Why Naftali Hanau purveys free range meat to kosher consumers, and what it’s like going green in Crown Heights
Free range chickens are healthy and delicious chickens claims Grow and Behold founder Naftali Hanau
Sitting on the raised ironwork terrace of Naftali and Anna Hanau’s backyard you really don’t feel like you’re in Crown Heights.
Pots of flowers brighten the terrace and tall trees mottle the sunshine of this summer afternoon. Below us is a coop containing twenty chickens colored rust and black and speckled squawking and pecking for food.
Even the interior of this brownstone renovated in blond wood and rustic patterned tiles in Scandinavian style isn’t typically Crown Heights. We’re on the other side of Eastern Parkway opposite 770 down where the neighborhood begins to shade into Bed-Stuy and ethnic diversity. This area is gradually attracting a vibrant young Modern Orthodox crowd — “People who might go to Teaneck or Riverdale but need to be in Brooklyn ” Naftali says.
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