Hollygrove has recently started a farmer’s market in their neighborhood. The URBANbuild project at Tulane built them a sunshade structure and has been helping them to renovate a building. The market is all about local food and they have a bunch of maps that show where the food came from and how far it traveled. Their signature thing is a box of food where they give you a list of vegetable and quantities and you go from table to table picking up the vegetables in a box and at the end you just pay $25 for the box of veggies, and anything extra you pick up you just pay for. It is a really great system, we bought a box of food and are going to have a ‘family dinner’ with it. Unfortunately though, there didn’t seem to be any “real” residents from the neighborhood there. It was mainly mid/upper class people from outside the neighborhood. I know that it is a common issue with farmer’s markets being able to attract low-income residents because of price, location and sources of income. I really do hope it catches on in the Hollygrove neighborhood but I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
Hollygrove has recently started a farmer’s market in their neighborhood. The URBANbuild project at Tulane built them a sunshade structure and has been helping them to renovate a building. The market is all about local food and they have a bunch of maps that show where the food came from and how far it traveled. Their signature thing is a box of food where they give you a list of vegetable and quantities and you go from table to table picking up the vegetables in a box and at the end you just pay $25 for the box of veggies, and anything extra you pick up you just pay for. It is a really great system, we bought a box of food and are going to have a ‘family dinner’ with it. Unfortunately though, there didn’t seem to be any “real” residents from the neighborhood there. It was mainly mid/upper class people from outside the neighborhood. I know that it is a common issue with farmer’s markets being able to attract low-income residents because of price, location and sources of income. I really do hope it catches on in the Hollygrove neighborhood but I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
the vegetable box is a pretty cool idea. it is basically the same thing as a CSA box except you actually have to go and meet the people in the booth, which seems like a big plus to me.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how you could reinvent the modern day farmers market to appeal to a wider demographic? I think in some situations community gardens are a sometimes a better option for getting the neighborhood involved.