UDC’s farmers market, a partnership with National Latino Farmers and Ranchers, is opening for the 2024 season on Saturday, April 27th. You’ll find the market outside of the UDC Student […]
Here are the opening dates for the UDC, Sheridan and other local farmers markets
It’s the other most wonderful time of the year: When the local farmers markets return for a new season, and share their bounties of fresh produce, prepared foods, and so […]
From Piggly Wiggly to the Van Ness Safeway to Wegmans: Holiday food shopping past and present
Where are you buying the food for your holiday table? Bread Furst, I’m Eddie Cano, Muchas Gracias and Little Red Fox were among the local businesses taking pre-orders for heat-and-eat […]
The UDC Van Ness farmers market is back. Here’s who will be there every Saturday through November.
Updated 4/28/2022 with the list of confirmed vendors, and new hours of operation. It’s fate. It has to be. Last weekend we pulled the last of our tamales stash from […]
Business in Brief: Italian Bar update; Van Ness Main Street planning spring market, summer movie nights; Uptown Theater readying a return?
Help kickstart a new business Italian Bar (5008 Connecticut Avenue), the gelato and espresso-selling venture from the I’m Eddie Cano people, has had to push back its planned opening date. […]
Farmers markets return to UDC and Sheridan School
New Morning Farm market and the UDC Van Ness farmers market are both opening for the 2021 season on Saturday, May 1st. Also back for the season: the markets’ social […]
Farmers market updates: New Morning Farm at Sheridan returns; More vendors at UDC Van Ness market
New Morning Farm The New Morning Farm market’s two month-long spring break is over. The market returns to Sheridan School on Saturday, June 6th and the Tuesday market reopens June […]
UDC Van Ness farmers market updates: Vendors, preorders and how-tos
The UDC Van Ness farmers market’s May 2nd return was a soft opening of sorts – shorter hours, fewer vendors. The May 9th market sees the return of the usual […]
Market Finds: A popular winter squash is a summer harvest
A month ago, we learned how the farmers market that comes to Sheridan School every Saturday (and some Tuesdays) from June through March manages to produce spring and summer greens […]
Market Finds: Winter greens grown in ‘tunnels’
by Marlene Berlin While shopping recently at the New Morning Farm market at Sheridan School, I overheard them describe growing greens in a “tunnel.” My vision of an underground bunker […]