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Vendor of the Week

Schmelly’s Dirt Farm Schmelly’s Dirt Farm

Bring your compost to the Tuesday Uptown Market!

Schmelly’s is an organics recycling company that produces high-quality compost and soil products for the farmers & gardeners of Greater New Orleans. Since 2014, they have composted over seven million pounds of organic material. Founded beside the former Hollygrove Market & Farm, Schmelly’s transforms New Orleans’ food scraps into healthy soil while fostering meaningful, uplifting, living-wage jobs. Their vision is to work together to examine and dismantle social constructs of oppression such as racism, patriarchy, and the gender binary by building the capacity of co-workers to communicate across differences in a democratic work environment.


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About Us

Market UmbrellaMarket Umbrella is an independent nonprofit 501(c)(3), based in New Orleans, whose mission is to cultivate the power of farmers markets to drive economic and community health in the region. Market Umbrella has operated the Crescent City Farmers Markets (CCFM) since 1995.

Crescent City Farmers MarketThe Crescent City Farmers Market operates weekly year-round throughout New Orleans. The CCFM hosts 70+ local small farmers, fishers, and food producers, and more than 150,000 shoppers annually.