The Shreveport Mobile Market was a result of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation grant. Inaccessibility to healthy foods is a big problem in Shreveport. Inaccessibility refers not only to physical accessibility, but also expense of fresh foods and lack of knowledge in preparation. The Mobile Market will help break down these barriers by taking fresh fruits and vegetables to the consumers in the food deserts, offering them at a manageable price, and showing them healthy ways to prepare them. The Mobile Market has a schedule at several local Shreveport Recreation Centers and the reception has been huge! Plans are in the works to expand the outreach to other areas.
Only local fresh produce is offered.
Every Tuesday 3:00-6:00pm
2727 Jackson St, Alexandria, LA
Our Mission
The Alexandria Farmers Market is a weekly gathering that connects the community of Alexandria with the farmers, ranchers, and agricultural artisans of Central Louisiana. This connection strives to improve the physical, social, and economic well-being of the region by providing access to fresh, healthy, local food for residents, fostering community relationships, and serving as a business incubator for growers and producers.
Interested in Applying?
Click the Menus below to learn more about how to qualify!
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The Alexandria Farmers Market is piloting a produce consignment table for 2024, The Community Produce Table is specifically designed for home gardeners, beginning, and part-time farmers, to bring their produce to the market. This helps the market by ensuring a diversity of fresh produce is available year-round and helps gardeners as well as new, and part-time farmers earn income. This program is only for produce at this time.
Please read the documents below:
You Snap. We Match!
The Alexandria Farmers Market SNAP Match Program is funded through the Greaux the Good Program operated by Market Umbrella. These funds were allocated in the State’s fiscal budget.
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We partner with organizations that share alignment with the Alexandria Farmers Market through work in food access, health access, food systems, and agriculture. We need an average of 6-8 weeks advance notice for tabling activities at the market.
The Community Produce Table!
The Alexandria Farmers Market is piloting a produce consignment table for 2024, The Community Produce Table is specifically designed for home gardeners, beginning, and part-time farmers, to bring their produce to the market.
This helps the market by ensuring a diversity of fresh produce is available year-round and helps gardeners as well as new, and part-time farmers earn income.
This program is only for produce at this time.
Greaux the Good!
Look for the yellow sign to find vendors who accept Famers Market Nutrition Program Cards (senior or WIC). Contact your WIC office or council on aging to see if you qualify. Program runs June 1 - November 30, annually.
Land Acknowledgement
AFM acknowledges our relationship with the land and waters of our region. The Red River watershed connects us to the Atchafalaya delta. Indigenous peoples continue in these lands since time immemorial as evidenced by the knowledge embedded in earthworks in our landscape.
Louisiana’s historic tribes include the Caddo, Chitimacha, Ishak (Atakapa), Houma, Natchez, and Tunica. By the late 1700s, many more tribes entered the region including the Biloxi, Ofo, Choctaw, and Apalachee. During this period, many tribes combined.
In addition to the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana located in Marksville, today’s Louisiana Federally recognized tribal nations include the Jena Band of Choctaw to the north, the Coushatta Tribe to the southwest, and Chitmacha to the south. Nearby state-recognized communities include the Clifton Choctaw to the west, the Adai and Choctaw-Apache communities to the northwest, and the United Houma Nation and associated tribal communities to the South. Native peoples still maintain connections and relationships of care for these lands today.
As an active first step toward decolonization, we encourage you to learn more about the Native Nations whose homelands this market resides on as well as the Indigenous homelands on which you live and work. We also invite you to deepen your relationship with the living lands and waters of this region.
It is our commitment to further education about land and traditional foodways which our present communities have syncretized. Through deeper understanding of these histories we affirm support for access to foods and food sovereignty for our First Peoples.
Resources:
https://gov.louisiana.gov/page/indian-affairs
Kids Club!
Kids (under 18) who visit the market will get $5 to shop for fresh fruits or veggies! ($5 per child). As supplies last.
Farmers Market Nutrition Program!
Look for the yellow sign to find vendors who accept Famers Market Nutrition Program Cards (senior or WIC). Contact your WIC office or council on aging to see if you qualify. Program runs June 1 - November 30, annually.
