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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!

03/20/2025

Just a handsome table at the market.

until 7 today.

PS be sure to say happy birthday to Reva if you happen to see her before she heads to Mexico tonight. 🎉

03/18/2025

Beetches.

03/15/2025

Chicken and Duck Alert! 🐓🍗

We just added chicken and duck to our online shop. Whole chickens and parts and whole ducks are now available - preorder by Monday night, pick up on Tuesday evening at Press St Gardens during our farm share. You don’t need to order a farm share to get the meat - but you can!

Kelly from Yardbirds is an experienced poultry farmer who’s raising meat birds at our farm in New Orleans. Pekin ducks and Freedom Ranger chickens are all pasture-raised using regenerative methods. They’re tender, high in omega-3s and low in saturated fat.

03/13/2025

Airborne celeriac right there. Coming to market.

3-7 (there’s an extra hour again!) at 500 N Norman C Francis.

03/12/2025

With Daylight Savings Time, we get to the farm before the sun does. 🌅

02/27/2025

Kale! Market! Today!!!

Midcity , 3-6pm at 500 N Norman C Francis. Hit it before hitting the parades. 🎉

02/24/2025

Greetings from muddy New Orleans, where Mardi Gras is in full swing (thanks for the delicious king cake !) and lots of food is being harvested for our Farm Share.

While we celebrate the carnival season and enjoy the incredible food and community that this town has to offer, we also want to highlight the impacts of the disastrous federal cuts on farms here and around the country.

Along with thousands of other farms and food system nonprofits, we have experienced the funding freeze in which the USDA is not paying out its contracts. Many of these funds were reimbursable grants, for which we and others have already spent the money on green infrastructure (see those solar panels on the barn? The USDA owes us $18K for those), beginning farmer development programs, and so many other critical projects that will help agriculture advance as the climate changes and local farming becomes more and more important. Farms of all sizes depend on the USDA, NRCS, and other federal agencies for funding. If the government continues to renege on its obligations, farms will shut down, and we will see a countrywide collapse in our food system.

Please contact your representatives and demand that they call on this irresponsible administration to end the freeze.

02/14/2025

💚 from the greenhouse 💚

Can’t wait to get a bigger one.

In the meantime, this is one is filled up with spring and summer veggie starts.

We’ve got farm shares and veggie boxes available in GrownBy btw.

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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10801 River Road
New Orleans, LA
70131

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300 buckets filled with organic fertilizer and spread with the cone spreader on the back fields before we seed cover crop. #certifiednaturallygrown #organicfarming #smellsfertile

Finally put our cone spreader into action (been too wet other times) yesterday before the rain. Seeding winter cover crops in our new fields. #certifiednaturallygrown #covercrops #conespreader

#certifiednaturallygrown #farmshare #csa

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.