Moving Beyond Cancer in NOLA: This Week at the Crescent City Farmers' Market

Spring has Surely Sprung | May 23, 2022

FRESH & LOCAL:

Spring has Surely Sprung

While the weather makes it feel like we have already reached the summer, let us not jump too far ahead and forget all the goodness this time of year has to offer. While we are already seeing cucumber, zucchini and a host of other summer squash, garlic, and leeks at markets, let's get ready to say hello to a whole new cornucopia of warm-weather crops, from green beans, sugar and snow peas, to new potatoes and tomatoes. With a final flush, we’ll get ready to bid farewell to cabbage, carrots, broccoli, and cauliflower, and as we progress into summer, welcome creole tomatoes, okra, peaches, melons, and blueberries!

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PICKS OF THE WEEK:

Donate your Kitchenware to CCFM!

In preparation for our first annual August CCFM kitchenware sale fundraiser, we invite you to donate your gently used pots, kitchenware, barware, small cooking appliances, cookbooks, and dishes to CCFM! We will be accepting donated items at the CCFM welcome tent at our Tuesday Uptown Markets every week from May 24 through July 26! Help that blender you never use find a new home, and help raise money for Market Umbrella and Crescent City Farmers Markets! Questions? Email admin@marketumbrella.org

CCFM is Now Accepting Community Partners to Table at Market!

It’s easy as 1, 2, 3!

Fill out a tabling request form. Scan the QR code above or use the link below to complete the tabling request form
- Forms (linked here) should be completed at least two weeks prior to ensure your placement on the market schedule.
Check your email!
- A member of the program team will contact you to confirm your appointment or reschedule if the desired date(s) is unavailable.
Confirm your appointment. Grab your marketing materials and start to prepare for your in-market activity!
- CCFM is rain or shine. CCFM does not provide tents, tables, chairs, or lights. Be sure you're prepared to table!
Arrive at the market. Show up and show out!
- Market set up begins two hours prior to start. Don't forget your supplies!

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We’re Hiring!

Join the Market Umbrella team and help us build a stronger food system and healthier community! Our current Market Manager is moving on to become a farmer(!) and we are looking for someone berry passionate about local agriculture, direct to consumer sales, vendor support and working with an organization with a focus on food access and nutrition education. We are also looking for a part-time market coordinator. For more information and to apply, click here!

Introducing… the Produce + Box
for Home Delivery!

Check out our new CCFM home delivery box, Produce+, through Top Box Foods! The Produce + Box contains half local produce, and half local proteins and value-add items. This box is a great foundation of groceries for a family of four for a week, and contents will vary weekly and seasonally. If you receive SNAP and are paying with EBT, the box is half off - only $20, and delivery in New Orleans is FREE! Order now!

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VENDOR OF THE WEEK:

Petit Jardin

Join us in warmly welcoming Petit Jardin to our Tuesday market community! While Petit Jardin is one of our newest market vendors, you may recognize the familiar face behind it all, Erica Sage, from the Thursday Truck Farm table. Now operating her own vendor stall on Tuesdays, Erica offers a selection of naturally grown vegetables and fruits harvested from a small sustainable plot of land in Central City that first began as a space for her to grow food for her growing family. Honoring quality over quantity, Petit Jardin additionally produces small batch, hand curated goods such as spicy pickled vegetables, moringa powder, soaps, dried herbs, dehydrated citrus, and edible flowers. Petit Jardin is black owned, woman owned, mom owned, and operates on the belief that small impactful shifts to care about what we put on and in our bodies will imbue positive effects physically, mentally and spiritually both individually and as a collective.

RECIPE OF THE WEEK:

Spicy Tofu and Cucumber Salad

Tired of those boring salad recipes? Try this yummy, spicy salad using fresh ingredients which can be found at market now!

What’s your favorite dish to make after visiting the Crescent City Farmers Market? Share your recipes with us on Instagram or Facebook and it might be featured in our weekly newsletter!