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NEW VENDORS
NEW ARTS & CRAFTS VENDORS
CURRENT VENDORS 2012
(some products are subject to season, weather conditions, and availability)
Bees Are My Business
(Honey sales and honey bee removal service)
Jannett Cancella
Bee honey, soap, fruit
985-764-8353 home 504-451-8091 cell
557 West Hoover, Destrehan
Betty D's Gourmet
Betty Dumas
Candy, honey, BBQ chicken & pork, stuffed chicken, roasts, pork, shrimp dressing, gumbo, beans, bread, stuffed cabbage, artichokes, and squash & peppers.
Vacherie, LA
Blue Tara Organic Blueberry Farm
Ronnie Coleman
Certified Organic blueberries
Poplarville, MS
Campbell's Farm (Acadian Gourmet Foods, Inc.)
Hampton Campbell
Gourmet popcorn rice, red beans & rice mix, jalepeno pepper sauce, hot sauce,
gourmet pepper sauce, rice/goat milk lotion & soaps, and gift baskets
Gueydan, LA
Cox's Meat Market
Robert Dale Cox
Fresh and smoked meats, fresh poultry, and ham products
Reserve, LA
Darlene's Southern Comforts LLC
Darlene King
Scented soy candles and fragrance oils
Hahnville, LA
Des Allemands Outlaw Katfish
Geannie Fonseca
Fresh Catfish, Crab Meat, Stuff Crabs, Crab Dip
Durham Produce
Brenda & Jimmy Durham
Peaches, nectarines, plums, tomatoes, pecans, mushrooms
Jamison, AL
Edible Enterprises
Gaye Morrison Sandoz
(A River Parishes Community Development Corporation Project featuring
food technology incubators and a commercial kitchen to assist local cooks
in manufacturing & developing their products for market.)
Rotation of new culinary entrepreneurs
985-764-1504
Mama Mary's Kitchen
Mary Beth Brinkman
Pepper jellies, jellies
Metairie, LA
Papa George's
George Borne
Sausage, hogshead cheese, gumbo, turnip & corn soups, chili,
red beans, white beans, and weekly specials
Hahnville, LA
Perilloux's Produce
Timmy Perilloux
Fresh vegetables
Montz, LA
Plantation Kettle Corn
Wayne Andrus
Kettle Corn, cracklins, pork skins, lemonade
Des Allemands, LA
Portera's Panetteria
Cynthia Portera
Italian cookies, macaroons, candy, bread, cakes, snowballs, lemonade, pastries
Destrehan, LA
Sailey's Stuffed Artichokes and Specialty Items NEW!
Dustin Murhpy
Stuffed artichokes, olive salad, seasoning salts
Gretna, LA
Sicily's Finest Gourmet Foods
Rosario D'Amico
Original New Orleans pasta sauce and other specialties
EDIBLE ENTERPRISES VENDOR
Schexnayder's Acadian Foods
Wayne Schexnayder
Sausage, meats, sauces, and weekly rotisserie specials
Kenner, LA
Schexnaydre Farm
Emile Schexnaydre
Fresh seasonal vegetables
Destrehan, LA
Smith's Creamery
Due to an explosion and fire at the dairy in June 2011,
Smith's Creamery will not be at the Wednesday market until further notice. See a special note from the Smiths below.
Warren and Sandra Smith
Milk, chocolate milk, cream cheese, butter, Italian cheesecake
Mt.Hermon, LA
Songy Tomatoes
Daniel Songy
Vine-ripened summer hot house tomatoes and winter Creole tomatoes
Story Produce
Bill Story
Honey, eggs, fruit, fresh vegetables
Holden, LA
(See tribute to Linda Higginbotham below)
T & T Plants (Saturday vendor)
Tommy Harper
Live plants of all types
Norco, LA
Windfield Farm Bakery NEW!
Suzanne Banck
Gourmet muffins, scones, granola and artisan breads to include French Baguetes, French Batards, Ciabatta, All That Jazz, Blue Cheese Walnut, Rosemary and a weekly whole wheat bread like Health, Three Seeded, Oat Pecan, etc
Franklinton, LA
985-795-BAKE (2253)
Zeringue Farms
James Zeringue
Fresh vegetables
Hahnville, LA
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Letter from the Smiths
TO OUR WONDERFUL FRIENDS AND LOYAL CUSTOMERS, VENDORS AND DEDICATED STAFF:
"First of all, we love you dearly and miss seeing you all each Wednesday at the Market. Words can never convey the appreciation we feel for the love and kindness you have shown us. Your words of comfort through phone calls, e-mails, Facebook, food, cards and monetary gifts have all been so helpful and has kept us going each day. You each have set a high standard for us to follow…maybe one day we will be able to be the giver rather than the receiver. God has taken us taken us in a different direction right now, but we hope you will continue to purchase our products. We are taking it one step at a time to get our products out there to you. Kleinpeter Farms Dairy is dedicated to preserving that same quality product that Smith Creamery brought to you each week. We have been involved each time that they have processed, we’ve tasted it and all of us agree that it’s the same wholesome milk that we delivered to you before. The chocolate milk is made by our original recipe and the grandchildren say “it’s good to have Smith Creamery chocolate milk again”. You should be able to find our products in your local supermarkets since Kleinpeter is distributing our product to a broader base. Many memories and relationships have been made on Wednesday afternoons off Hwy 90! We feel that each of you are part of our extended family and we care about you, like you care about us. Each Wednesday afternoon at 2:30pm, we think about our special customers we would be seeing. It has been a very emotional time, so please continue to pray for us as we make decisions about the future. With tears rolling down my face, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We will never forget the generosity and friendship you have shown us. It will forever be in our hearts and on our minds. May God bless all of you for your goodness."
The Smith Creamery Family….Warren & Sandra, Travis Smith, Michelle Smith & Tommy Hickman & Family
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In Loving Memory of Mrs. Linda Higginbotham, Story Produce
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE FAMILY OF LINDA HIGGINBOTHAM AND THE CUSTOMERS OF THE GERMAN COAST FARMERS' MARKET
July 31st, 2010
My name is Joey LaBella. I'm a sous chef for LaBella's Catering and a line cook for the Shimmy Shack bar & restaurant. Doesn't leave alot of time off. In fact, my typical week leaves me with 4 half days off. Still, after working 2 cooking jobs, I still love to cook at home and play with new ingredients/ideas.
In the last 3 years I've taken to shopping at the German Coast Farmers' Market. Since I cook at home alot, I rarely buy already prepared food. I go for the fruit and veggies. Sure, I'll stock up on Destrehan honey, Cambell's rice and hot sauce, the 3 bottle deal with Landry's wine (not to mention my front yard is full of TNT herbs and my back yard is full of citrus trees) but my main stops were Zeringue's for their wild array of produce and, of course, Story farms for thier consistent line of produce.
I never knew Linda by her name but she was always so friendly. I would ask her questions about what she sold me and she not only helped me, but inspired me when I took the produce back to my kitchen. I never knew what a "mush" melon or a mayhaw was...I'd never cooked a fresh field pea before.....I'd never seen multi colored corn, much less heard it is called "peaches n creme" corn. These little lessons transferred straight to my menu. Instead of writing "served with veggie" on my menu, I could write things like "served with peaches n creme corn." People LOVE the farm to fork idea and it was these nuggets of info that were/are invaluable to me and you can only get that info by talking to your farmers.
There is a recipe I created called Story soup. It's basically stewed okra and tomatoes with every vegetable that I saw on Ms Linda's table. Okra, tomatoes, snap beans, field peas, red potatoes, onions, garlic, yellow/zuchinni squash and some of that sweet "peaches n creme" corn. Season dat with some crab boil and throw it over Campbell's popcorn rice and you can call it a day.
AND THE EGGS! My Lord the eggs! Whether I'm making an immulsion or just cooking some over easy eggs for the wife, they are the best.
My most vivid memory of Linda was the one time I went across the bridge to the Luling market (I couldnt wait for Saturday), it was pouring rain, and there she was, pulling a tent together. She looked like a worker ant carrying something 50 times her size. I ran over and helped and told her she reminded me of my grandmother.
I also remember everytime I'd buy blue, black or strawberries, she'd bag them up by themselves and hand the bag to my son, who has eaten out of the market his entire life. Very smart businesswoman. She knew my son loved those berries and if she handed them to him, half the pint would be gone on the car ride home. My son is somewhat reserved around new people but he was always very outgoing with Ms. Linda. Must've been the berries.
Since I only have 4 half days off, I dont get alot of time with my son. The farmer's market has become our Saturday morning ritual. Its our quality time together and now a cornerstone of that ritual is gone. I guess that's why I'm so distraught by the absence of someone I never knew by first name.
I think I'll go have a bowl of Story soup right now. It'll make me feel better.
Joey LaBella
Sous Chef
P.S. With all that's happened, I had to call the Zeringue's. I hadnt seen them in 3 weeks and was getting worried. Thankfully, everything with them is fine. They are just "in-between crops.
