Today, the various organizations that make up the Growing Local Collaborative – Recirculating Farms Coalition, Top Box Foods Louisiana, SPROUT NOLA, New Orleans Food Policy Advisory Committee, and Liberty’s Kitchen – in partnership with Market Umbrella and the Crescent City Farmers Market, are ramping up efforts to keep New Orleans residents fed and healthy by […]
In recent years, RFC has been working cooperatively with several New Orleans, Louisiana organizations: Liberty’s Kitchen, NOLA Food Policy Advisory Committee, SPROUT NOLA, and Top Box Foods Louisiana, to collectively promote community health and wellness through increased food access, job training, and policy advocacy. Last year, these organizations formalized the relationships, under the “Growing Local […]
RFC is relocating its farm – Growing Local NOLA – to a space owned by the organization’s new community partner, the Dryades YMCA. The farm will be built on Jackson Avenue, in Central City, New Orleans, just a few steps from the Dryades Y building. “We’ve wanted a community garden for some time so that […]
What does it take to be one of the only commercial urban farms in the Greater New Orleans Area? It helps a TON to have the perfect combination of owners; one with commercial farming experience and the other with a business background. Cheryl Nunes participated in a farmer training program seven years ago in Massachusetts, […]
In a surprising move at the very end of 2018 – Congress came together to pass a reauthorization of the Farm Bill – a national law that manages agriculture and various food programs – school food, and food assistance services. The new law does not cut most food services and it adds a entire section […]