Tet New Year Festival starts Friday at Mary Queen of Vietnam church
Here in New Orleans, we have one of the largest Vietnamese communities in the US, although few non-Vietnamese enter it. Centered in New Orleans East, it started as a refugee settlement of 2 North...
View ArticleBivalve Project from Louisiana
Fisheries Agent Rusty Gaude has long advocated for more production of the Southern Quahog, Mercenaria campechiensis and sees it as a possible new direction of direct marketing to offset the reduced...
View ArticleSt. Joseph’s Day Festivities
Like most Americans, New Orleanians too celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, although here in New Orleans we also celebrate St. Joseph’s Day. There already was a parade through the Quarter in St. Joseph’s...
View ArticleMarketUmbrella releases report on SFMNP incentive project
I’ve always been very proud of the very active way that my old workplace promoted FMNP in Louisiana. Since FMNP’s inception in Louisiana, MU’s markets have been at the forefront of expanding the...
View ArticleMarket visits
One of my ideas for building the movement is for network leaders to think about how to alternate or expand manager trainings. For experienced managers that have attended (and maybe even presented?) at...
View ArticleTabasco is given special market status
No, not THAT Tabasco. Clever market. http://www.thesttammanynews.com/news/article_8e7cb9e2-c6ef-11e1-961a-0019bb2963f4.html
View ArticleJenga Mwendo
Jenga is the founder of Backyard Gardeners Network in Lower 9th Ward, raw food entrepreneur and in this video, is talking about her excellent work in the lower 9th ward section of New Orleans. Jenga’s...
View ArticleLouisiana Farmer Honored
Each year the Crescent City Farmers Market selects a local food hero to feature on wooden tokens that may be purchased at the market welcome tent using credit or debit cards, then spent with vendors at...
View ArticleJob opening: Food Policy and Program Manager- New Orleans LA
FOOD POLICY AND PROGRAM MANAGER Background Information The role of the Food Policy and Program Manager is situated within the larger Propeller Social Venture Accelerator program with a focus on food...
View ArticleThe Nature of Cities
A friend to New Orleans, Mary Rowe gives an eloquent description of the natural organizing within a city as seen when passing through a period of destruction. The lessons of city work can certainly...
View Article“Anti-Food Truck Meddling Ends Up Ruining Miami Farmer’s Market”
I know many markets are using food trucks as a way to get more traffic to markets, especially evening markets. Based on this and other articles that I run across, it sounds like food trucks should be...
View ArticleIndicating health
Blueberry pie from Windowsill Pies and gluten-free pizza and shrooms from the Rue family, all from Covington Farmers Market.. Take a long look at that picture. To many, it may only show another dang...
View ArticleNews & Events | VEGGI Farmer’s Cooperative
This is a new Vietnamese-led growers initiative in New Orleans. I hope we begin to see more production cooperatives among farmers, especially urban and peri-urban farmers. News & Events | VEGGI...
View ArticleOn Being a Boss: Kristen Essig Takes Over at Sainte Marie – Eater Interviews...
Below, is a link to an interview with a New Orleans chef who has embedded local purchasing into the very DNA of her kitchen. The day I met Kristen was the day (2002? 2003?) that she interviewed to be...
View ArticleBook Review: Louisiana Eats
Full disclosure: Poppy is my pal. She is someone who calls me up and then shows up (with a gift, cuz she is a proper New Orleans/Ursuline/Uptown girl) always appearing with insight and hilarious...
View ArticleFood Day
Check out the “Big Easy Peel” event, a satsuma-peeling event starting at 11:30am on Oct. 24th at the Washington Artillery Park across from Jackson Square! Dr. DeSalvo, the health commissioner of New...
View Article“Granular Resilience”
This excellent essay by my friend Mary Rowe, Managing Director of the Municipal Art Society of New York, gives some excellent language for communities to consider and adopt when talking about their own...
View ArticleFirst New Orleans recipient of Fresh Food Retail Initiative closes, puts...
A Central City grocery store that received a low-interest loan under a city-funded program to bring fresh foods to under-served neighborhoods has been closed and placed on the market. Owner Doug...
View ArticleGrazing with goats in the Crescent City
Goats for grazing is a super idea for the many open, untended sites we have in New Orleans and throughout the U.S. This is a simple fundraising idea for an New Orleans entrepreneur that wants to use...
View ArticleThe Idea Village Launches “Food Challenge” for New Orleans Entrepreneurs
The Idea Village announces that New Orleans-based entrepreneurs Creole Crackers, Feed Me Eat Pretty, Garden District Bloody Marys, NOLA Pie Guy (DBA Sugah), and Taryn’s Crab Cakes Factory have been...
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