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River Queen Greens Super fresh, nutritious veggies Certified Naturally Grown in New Orleans. Sign up for our customizable Farm Share through our website!

02/13/2025

Massive planting day today.

The recent warm weather following a very cold month meant that tons of trays were ready to go all at once. Today we put 6800 plants in the ground. Tis the season. 🌱

01/26/2025

Winter Storm Enzo impact report:

The snow has melted at the farm and while we won’t know the full impact of the unprecedented winter storm for weeks, we have some sense of what made it through unscathed and what’s totally lost. Some things are damaged but hopefully mostly salvageable and other things we just have to wait to see if they can push through.

Some scenes from around the farm, post thaw:

1) a peek under the cover at some happy lettuce,

2) mostly unhappy lettuce that didn’t get covered,

3) radicchio with damaged outer leaves but intact inner heads,

4) newly planted spring greens and onions - we’re hoping these guys will be able to push through,

5) droopy leeks that will need a lot of trimming but are still viable we think,

6) shallots and lettuce kickin’ it in a hoop house.

For the next couple weeks we’ll only be doing our Tuesday farm share pickups - we won’t be at markets this week for sure and probably not for a couple weeks at least!

Hopefully the farm will recover quickly with the warmer weather and we’ll be back to our normal production level early this spring. We appreciate all of our customers and wish we didn’t have this disruption in the middle of our market season!

This is a hard time for all the farmers in this region so please do whatever you can to support your local growing community!

01/23/2025

We finally made it out to the farm today - not an easy trip navigating two bridges/various road closures.

It looks pretty from afar but not so great close up. Not much we can do until the snow thaws. Pretty much everything in the field is looking rough, but it’s possible some of it will recover.

Greenhouse and hoop houses are all in good shape.

We’ll know more in the coming weeks about the outlook of recovery. It will very likely be several weeks before we’re fully back up to speed.

We’ve never had this kind of cold or this much snow during the middle of our growing season here in New Orleans. It’s a bit of a shock, though we’re getting more used to expecting the unexpected.

01/20/2025

Reminder to our farm share members!

Picking up today indoors at Press St Station. 4-7!

01/15/2025

Talking veg at the first Farm Share pickup of the spring season.

We still have some spots open. Hop over to our GrownBy shop to register.

01/07/2025

Storage crop season!

Cabbages, kohlrabi, radishes, turnips so far this week. More carrots tomorrow.

The coolers are filling up.

12/28/2024

Need greens this week?

Sunday at City Park, 8-noon

12/20/2024

So much to harvest, so little time!

We’ll be at the Sunday market this weekend and next, loaded with greens, broccoli, root veggies, herbs, and more.

Sunday, 12/22 and 12/29, 8am-noon at Tad Gormley in City Park.

12/17/2024

Onion planting day: 7 people, 2 dogs, 1,000+’ and over 10,000 yellow, white, and red bulb onions. Now all we need are massages. 💪🏽🧅

Coming late spring 2025.

12/15/2024

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12/14/2024

We’ve got a busy few weeks ahead of us!! Serving up all sorts of veggie goodness over the holidays at the Thurs and Sunday and our final fall Farm Share next Tuesday.

PS - winter salad mix pictured here features arugula, baby kale, frisée, baby mustards, and radicchio 😋

12/05/2024

Come say “HELLOOO” to Malaika and Reva at the market today! Malaika is filling in for me and she really brings the enthusiasm 😀

Lots of greens, carrots, radishes, and more at Midcity 3-6pm today.

11/30/2024

Dreamy greens these days.

> Sunday City Park market 8-noon

> Farm Share Tuesday evening at Press St Gardens. One-off veggie boxes available. Preorder by Monday night.

11/27/2024

Carrot testing. They passed. 🥕🧑‍🌾

11/24/2024

Goooood morning! Come say hi to us at the Sunday today! Lots of greens, herbs, roots, and more. Here til noon.

And if you miss the market today, you can always find us at Press St Garden on Tuesday at our Farm Share. Check out our website for preorder info.

11/23/2024

What’s in YOUR fridge?

How about some River Queen Greens veggies? Find us this week:

- Sunday Morning in City Park
- Tuesday evening Farm Share at Press St Gardens. We’ve got lots of one-time Veggie Boxes for sale this week if you’re not a member but want to load up on produce before the holiday.

11/20/2024

Veggies ‘n Friends ✌️

11/17/2024

Sea of greens = lots of Farm Shares and Veggie Boxes!

We keep adding inventory at our preorder site on GrownBy because the farm is more overflowing each week. Join our Farm Share for the rest of the season or order a one-time box this weekend for pickup on Tuesday. Choose from a variety of salad and cooking greens, fresh herbs, root veggies, and seasonal favorites.

Add on local meats, eggs, fruit, and more. Plus our friends .co bread and join us each Tuesday so you basically don’t need to go to the grocery store again.

Check out our website (linked in profile) to find out more.

Address

10801 River Road
New Orleans, LA
70131

Opening Hours

3pm - 6pm

Telephone

+15048141304

Website

http://www.riverqueengreens.com/

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Decided the hot peppers are for the birds with this freeze about to hit us. @yardbirds_farm chickens are temporarily relocating to one of our hoop houses where they can hopefully stay a little warmer and hang out unattended a little longer than being out in the field. Plus this house could use a little chicken activity to liven things up for future plantings.

We’re moving more Louisiana Evergreen Shallots from a kinda marginal outdoor bed into the hoop house where they’ll be happier over the winter. We’ve been harvesting just the tops as green onions. Also known as “multiplying onions”, the bulbs have been reproducing and regrowing the tops every couple weeks. We’re also growing our regular scallions but these have been more productive for us so far this season and we love the flavor. It remains to be seen if we’ll be able to harvest the shallot bulbs at any point. Anyone else tried these before? #certifiednaturallygrown #greenonion #louisianaevergreenshallots

@crescentcityfarmersmkt 3-6 today!

Carrots! First harvest this fall. Many more to come.🥕💦 #carrots #weneedarootwasher

Taking down sorghum sudan grass cover crop with a brush cutter. Our mower bit the dust this summer and we’ve been making do while we wait for insurance. This is slow but does a thorough job.

The little mower that could (kinda) - taking down the cover crops on the market garden beds that are too close together for the tractor. 🚜🌱

We had a 2000lb super sac of organic fertilizer that needed to go in this new field before we do another cover crop seeding. The plan was to use the cone spreader on the tractor but then the tractor broke and is in the shop and it rained and rained and the field is too wet for a tractor anyway. So we did it by hand this morning. Here’s Cheryl flinging the last bucket. Now it’s time for a nap.

Sunday morning shallot cleaning.

She’s more than just a farmer.

Bringing back the broad fork! After 2 years of avoiding this tool, we decided our beds need a little oxygen. We’re turning over tons of beds these days, so the broad forks are getting a lot of use. And we’re getting a workout!