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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
  • Earlier this week, I had one of those enviable New Orleans moments. There I was: standing in a farmers market, debating with a group of market-goers as to…
  • Are you familiar with the fifth element on the culinary spectrum, umami? Scientists have debated whether the four taste groups adequately cover it: sweet,…
  • By the time our region’s markets are ringing their closing bells this afternoon, the New Orleans Road Food Festival will be in full swing in the French…
  • The other week, I experienced poetry whilst shopping for seedlings at a market. Has this ever happened to you? To begin with, I bumped into a delightful…
  • There’s a word I keep hearing these days — bounty.And yet, everytime I hear it, I keep thinking of farmers not football players. At our region’s farmers…
  • It is only right that we embrace the ebb and flow of the seasons. So out with the king cakes and in with fish on Fridays. Out with spirits and in with…
  • Hi, this is Richard McCarthy with the WWNO Farmers Market Minute… You knew Valentine's Day is today, right? Oh, no, did it catch you off guard? You know,…
  • http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wwno/local-wwno-956649.mp3Embrace the new year! Take risks. Eat new things. Join the 74% of shoppers…
  • http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wwno/local-wwno-956650.mp3Merry Christmas! In a rare moment of commercial restraint, our regions…
  • New Orleans, LA –Hi, this is Richard McCarthy with the WWNO Farmers Market Minute When New Orleans East fisherman Pete Gerica returns to his dock in Irish…