Celebrating One Year Anniversary
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The Freedmen’s Town Farmers Market will be celebrating its one year anniversary on Saturday, November 27th from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Located in the historic Fourth Ward, the city’s oldest African American neighborhood, the event will feature more than a dozen vendors, African drumming, a ceremony, and speeches from community leaders. The event will celebrate the market’s success and the future of Black Texas food, culture, and agriculture.
You might also remember we featured the Freemen's Town Farmers market a while back with our special Ending the Food Desert Gap: Farm-Fresh Freedmen’s Town write-up.
Since launching in November 2020 in a food desert, the farmers market has grown to close to a dozen weekly vendors and generated over $250,000 in annual sales for small businesses. It is a place where Houstonians can buy fresh organic produce, grassfed beef, pasture raised holiday turkeys, bread, baked goods, honey, and other groceries. “In the midst of a pandemic the farmers market has made a life changing impact to the community and Black businesses in and around Freedmen’s Town,” says Charonda Johnson, Vice President of the Freedmen’s Town Association. Delvrick Boykin, owner of Hardy Farmz, concurred saying, “I am forever grateful for an opportunity to build” at the market. Chef E. Muhammed, owner of Nation Brand Breads, has been a dedicated vendor since the markets inception and reflects upon the “greatest feeling” he gets from “seeing repeat and new customers” from the market and in the neighborhood.
The market is held each Saturday, rain or shine, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at 1108 Victor St., in partnership with the Mt. Horeb Baptist Church.
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