Kid’s Market Day offers children of all ages the opportunity to see where their food really comes from. Students who have participated in Urban Harvest’s School and Youth gardening programs will bring their produce to sell at the farmers market. Vendors will bring animals and equipment from their farms to show kids what farming is really like. Kid-friendly activities will include seed planting, face painting, scavenger hunt, raw vegetable tasting and egg dyeing using natural colors. Live music and a cooking demonstration will also be featured.
The Bayou City Farmers Market is a project of Urban Harvest. Urban Harvest is a nonprofit organization that uses fruit, vegetable and habitat gardens to improve quality of life in the greater Houston area. These gardens serve to educate, strengthen community spirit, create therapeutic environments and provide food and income. We teach organic gardening techniques, help neighborhoods build successful community gardens, create outdoor classrooms at schools that teach core curricula, nutrition and respect for the environment, provide fresh, locally grown food, and encourage responsible land use. Our work benefits all of us by improving food, diet and health. It also builds engaging schools, neighborly communities, and valuable local businesses that together sustain and improve our environment. Our Bayou City Farmers Market helps educate the public about the benefits of eating local produce in season and provides the local agricultural community with a direct outlet for their products. For more information, visit our website www.urbanharvest.org.
The Bayou City Farmers’ Market is opened every Saturday throughout the year and offers locally-produced vegetables, fruits and farm products. The market supports family farms and boosts the local economy. There are thirty-five vendors with another twelve seasonal vendors whose products include a large variety of fruits and vegetables, yard eggs, duck eggs, goat cheeses, pasteurized goat milk, grass-fed beef and lamb, Gulf shrimp, honey and beeswax products, fair trade organic coffee, fresh cut flowers, fresh herbs, prepared foods and baked goods, healthy snacks, knife sharpening while you shop, and much more. All of the items at our market are produced within 180 mile radius of downtown Houston.
WHEN: Saturday, March 28, 2009, 8 am to noon
WHERE: 3000 Richmond at Eastside (between Kirby and Buffalo Speedway), in the back parking lot. The market isn’t visible from Richmond, so look for the cross street, Eastside (there’s a traffic light there) and turn north. The market will be visible in the parking lot to the right.
