Farmers Market Minute
Saturday mornings
Each week on the Farmers Market Minute, community development specialist and foodie Richard McCarthy explores the variety of people and produce who make up this delicious region's farmers markets — from uptown to downtown, Covington to Gretna.
Latest Episodes
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If your holiday barbecue embers are still glowing with heat, consider joining the throng of chefs who have discovered the joys of grilling fruit.A decade… -
This time of year, all eyes are on watermelons, and for good reason: local farmers grow stars and stripe melons just in time for the July 4th weekend.…
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Each year, food system solutionaries attempt to eat within 200 miles of New Orleans as part of the Eat Local Challenge. This is a marvelously interactive… -
With farmers market tables piled high, watch the produce fly. These are peak season weeks crying out for fun in the kitchen. But, if the fresh aroma of… -
At the Saturday morning market in the New Orleans Warehouse District, festivities centered around the launch of the 2012 wooden token. At market, this is… -
I noticed this morning at market a most welcome site: squash blossoms for sale.I don’t know whether you grow vegetables. I do. Well, let me correct… -
I spoke with several mothers today at this morning’s markets. In each case, the women are farmwives managing, or having just managed, to look after ailing… -
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Tomorrow is Earth Day. While I risk sounding cliché, every day should be Earth Day. Instead, we treat the planet like trash. So, what is to be done?For… -
With spring comes wild foods that inhabit our region. Last week, I met a group of visiting culinary students from France at a market.Mid-conversation, the…
