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Crescent City Farmers Market

Also known as: Market Umbrella

Network of producer-only farmers-and-fishers markets across New Orleans, founded 1995 by economist Richard McCarthy and operated by the non-profit Market Umbrella. Operates four weekly markets — Saturdays Uptown (Magazine Street), Tuesdays at the Lake, Wednesdays in the French Market, and Thursdays in Mid-City — plus the Saturday morning Westwego Farmers and Fisheries Market on the West Bank. All vendors are required to grow, raise, catch, or make what they sell; SNAP/EBT and Market Match doubling are accepted at all sites. The market network is one of the most-studied U.S. farmers-market models — McCarthy's *Sticky Local Markets* research established much of the contemporary academic framework for measuring local-food-system economic impact.

Practical

Four weekly markets:

  • Saturday Uptown — 8 a.m.–12 p.m., 200 Broadway (corner of Magazine St.). The flagship market; the largest weekly producer-only market in southeast [[arabi|Louisiana]].
  • Tuesday at the Lake — 9 a.m.–1 p.m., 8800 Pontchartrain Boulevard.
  • Wednesday [[french-market-new-orleans|French Market]] — 9 a.m.–1 p.m., inside the historic [[french-market-new-orleans|French Market]].
  • Thursday Mid-City — 3 p.m.–6:30 p.m., 3700 Orleans Avenue (American Can Company).

Plus the Westwego Farmers and Fisheries Market — Saturday 8 a.m.–12 p.m., 484 Sala Avenue, Westwego — the West Bank counterpart, with a strong fisheries-vendor presence.

All sites accept SNAP/EBT with Market Match (a $1-for-$1 SNAP-doubling program funded through the [[arabi|Louisiana]] Department of Health). Vendors must grow, raise, catch, or make their products within a defined regional foodshed (most within ~200 miles of [[french-quarter|New Orleans]]). The producer-only requirement is enforced through farm-and-vessel inspections.

Market Umbrella also operates the Crescent Fund (small grants and revolving loans for producer infrastructure), the Marketshare professional network (training and technical assistance for farmers-market managers nationally), and seasonal community-cooking and producer-spotlight programming.

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  • Shares approach with: [[french-market-new-orleans]]
  • Member of: [[organization]]
  • Contained by: [[new-orleans]]

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Practical

shares approach with

  • Hollygrove Market & Farm two NOLA-area regional-small-farmer-aggregator operations; Crescent City Farmers Market the open-air market network, Hollygrove the storefront-and-box-program model

Cultural

shares approach with

  • French Market the two principal continuing public-market traditions in New Orleans; the Crescent City market operates a satellite inside the French Market on Wednesdays

contains

  • New Orleans regional farmers-and-fishers market network operated by Market Umbrella since 1995

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