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Hollygrove Market & Farm

Also known as: Hollygrove Market, HMF

A neighborhood produce market and small urban farm in the Hollygrove neighborhood of New Orleans, founded in 2008 in the years after Hurricane Katrina. Aggregates produce from ~40 regional small farms across Louisiana and Mississippi, sells through retail storefront and a weekly box program, and operates a small on-site teaching farm. A working example of the small-aggregator model that connects rural Louisiana farms to urban NOLA consumers without going through commodity-grocery distribution.

Why this listing

Circulator tier because Hollygrove’s load-bearing function is moving food from regional small farms to NOLA neighborhood consumers — the aggregation-and-distribution work that small-farm direct-market alone can’t do at neighborhood-grocery scale. The combination of neighborhood storefront + weekly box program + small teaching farm + farmer-network is one of the few working U.S. models for the small-food-hub-as-neighborhood-anchor pattern.

Practical

  • Storefront retail — open most days; produce from ~40 regional farms; eggs, dairy, meat from [[arabi|Louisiana]] producers.
  • Box program — weekly $25 produce boxes; the entry-point format for many NOLA households into local-food purchasing.
  • Small on-site farm — teaching garden and intensive vegetable production; complements the aggregation function.
  • Farmer relationships — long-term contracts with [[arabi|Louisiana]] and [[batesville-ms|Mississippi]] small farms; the supply-side network that the market depends on.

Cultural

Hollygrove emerged from the post-Katrina rebuild conversation in the late 2000s, when the structural disinvestment in NOLA neighborhood food retail (which had been pre-existing) became unmistakable in the rebuild context. [[the-market|The market]] is a partnership of [[french-quarter|New Orleans]] Food and Farm Network (NOFFN — now folded), Tulane University connections, and Hollygrove neighborhood organizing.

The model has been widely studied; similar neighborhood-food-hub operations have been launched in other U.S. cities partly informed by the Hollygrove template.

Lenses still to grow

  • The [[french-quarter|New Orleans]] Food and Farm Network (NOFFN) and its successor organizations
  • The post-Katrina food-desert documentation and policy response
  • The small-aggregator economics that make Hollygrove work
  • Comparative analysis with peer U.S. neighborhood food hubs

See also

Auto-generated from this entry’s typed relations: frontmatter, grouped by relation type so the editorial signal isn’t flattened.

  • Enables: [[food-deserts]]
  • Shares approach with: [[crescent-city-farmers-market]]
  • Located in: [[new-orleans]]
  • Member of: [[organization]]

Sources

  • Hollygrove Market & Farm (hollygrovemarket.com) communications
  • Coverage in NOLA.com, [[civil-eats|Civil Eats]], Times-Picayune, Eater [[french-quarter|New Orleans]]
  • [[french-quarter|New Orleans]] Food Policy Advisory Committee documentation

Rooted in life.

A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]].

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