Back 2 School Snax | August 20, 2024

Fresh & Local:

Back 2 School Snax

It’s August, which means the children are heading back to school. Send them off with yummy snacks using fresh and local ingredients from the Crescent City Farmers Market! One of our favorites is crudités, raw cut veggies paired with a dipping sauce. This dish is quick, easy, and can be customized for each kiddo and any season! Plus, it can be made quickly for those late mornings when you and the family are in a rush.

Thanks to the variety of fresh, seasonal veggies always readily available in-market, this dish is never boring! Cut crudités using fresh green beans, sweet peppers, summer squash, and even okra! If you’re feeling fancy, you can toss in heirloom cherry tomatoes and some pickles. For the dip, try one of Isabel’s creamy salsas, or stop by T&R Dairy for yogurt and Sassy Cajun Spices for seasonings to make your own spinach or artichoke style dip. No matter the taste buds, the Crescent City Farmers Market has something to make your child’s next afternoon snack tasty, fresh, and unique!

Good Food Word of the Week:

While Market Umbrella is known for our farmers markets and fresh food access programs, food systems work touches on many social, economic, and environmental issues. The Good Food Word of the Week seeks to shed some light on these parts of our work and the way we talk – demystifying the jargon.

Whole Food

Whole foods are unprocessed and free from additives - it’s the antonym for processed foods. If you’re looking to add more whole foods to your diet, search for things that can go straight from a field to your plate without any steps in between. Options include vegetables, fruits, nuts, and sustainably-sourced meats and fish.

Picks of the Week:

Meet Jackie

When it comes to friends, the Crescent City Farmers Market has plenty - from all species! Have you seen Jackie in the market? Perched upon their caretakers shoulder, Jackie helps put a smile on everyone’s face who walks through the market. Birds are so cool, y’all.

Market Umbrella at ADCES

Last week, Market Umbrella presented at the Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists conference, an organization dedicated to advancing the quality of diabetes care and education. 

Kasey Shy, Director of Healthy Food Access Programs, and Jas Tucker, Healthy Food Access Program Manager, presented a poster titled Enhancing Diabetes Education with a Produce Prescription: A Multi-Sector Partnership in New Orleans, sharing our collaborative approach to addressing food security in a Food is Medicine program. Partners included Top Box Foods, CrescentCare, Dillard University, and the Center for Nutrition and Health Impact.  

Kasey and Jas enjoyed the conference and had lots of great conversations with conference attendees!

We <3 CCFM Volunteers!

Thanks to the wonderful CCFM volunteers for covering 25 shifts over the course of National Farmers Market Week! With extra hands at the market, we’re able to capture foot traffic data and support programming from the Chopped Chef Challenge to giving out watermelon slices.

We’re looking for a few more volunteers to help with foot traffic data collection on Tuesday, August 27th. Sign up today, and send it to a friend or two!

Welcome CRISP Farms to the Tuesday Uptown Market

CRISP Farms will be joining us at the Tuesday Uptown Market with their tropical fruit and perennial vegetable plants! Come out and treat yourself to a new plant friend from CRISP Farms or from the wide assortment of seasonal plant starts and herbs from Mizell Farms. While you’re at it, visit Cherry Creek Orchards as they round out their peach season or Pete & Clara’s Seafood for some fish to grill up this weekend!

Vendor of the Week:

Know Dat Grow Dat

Mike Beauchamp of Know Dat Grow Dat is a firm believer that we are what we eat! After 44 years in the pharmaceutical industry, Mike shifted his focus towards growing microgreens to educate and encourage people to take more control over their own nutrition. While gardening at Hollygrove Market and Farm, Mr. Michael Beauchamp and Mr. Nelson Richardson connected and became business partners. Out of this, Know Dat Grow Dat was born!

Know Dat Grow Dat is an urban garden that produces flowers and microgreens using sustainable growing techniques. Filled with flavor and vitamins, microgreens enhance any meal! Mr. Mike is also a member of Delgado's Big Band, where he hones his saxophone skills on alto and baritone saxes, and the Farm Service Agency County Committee for Urban Agriculture, where he serves as an elected official. Find Know Dat Grow Dat on Instagram and at the Tuesday Uptown and Thursday Mid-City markets.

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Recipe of the Week:

Black-Eyed Pea Salad

While Fergie has yet to be seen, black-eyed peas have hit the market! With black-eyed peas from Johndales Farm, cherry tomatoes from Monica’s Okra World, and seasonings from Sassy Cajun Spices - whip up this nutritious black-eyed pea salad for your next lunch!