Recirculating Farms Coalition

04/22/2025

Happy !! Let's all be extra thoughtful about our people and planet!

04/07/2025

WOW what an amazing Community Health Day! Huge THANKS to everyone who brought services and resources - we all so appreciate you! Luke's House Clinic Ashé Cultural Arts Center Wellness Honie New Orleans Health Department New Orleans Public Library Tulane University Second Harvest Food Bank - Feeding South Louisiana UNITY of Greater New Orleans No Wrap No Tap NOLA Metropolitan Human Services District The Movement Xavier University of Louisiana and more!!

04/04/2025

More great news on the battle against and around the U.S.!

President Donald Trump’s first-term push to open the Gulf of Mexico to fish farming has come to a halt in the early days of his second term.

04/01/2025

Hey - check out our FREE April classes! BIG THANKS to all who offer information and education!! Greater New Orleans Growers' Alliance SPROUT NOLA Love Your City

03/12/2025

Hey check out our free classes for March 2025!

02/18/2025

We just learned that our long time friend and local farmer David Young passed. He created a successful urban farming program in the Lower 9th. He was a beekeeper; aquaponics expert; dog, chicken, and goat dad; and a long time champion of social justice and spirituality. RIP. Learn more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF9w6WReHgE

01/20/2025

In remembrance of the late, great, Dr. MLK JR.

01/17/2025

At age 81, our long time friend and mentor, Billy Causey, passed, but his life's work in protecting oceans, everything in them, and those who love and use them, lives on. RIP. Billhttps://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/florida-keys/article298526283.html

He once lived and researched underwater for a week as an ‘Aquanaut’ at Aquarius reef base.

11/11/2024

Free classes at our for November 2024! Please join us!

11/11/2024

Sending thanks to all our Veterans today, especially those in our Vets Ag program at the Bastion Community and friends at the local New Orleans Veterans Medical Center here in . Special shout out to President of the Board Tony Griffith!

10/10/2024

So much fun yesterday with NCAT Armed to Farm! We all joined in a lively and real group discussion and farm tour. Hope y'all come back soon. We look forward to staying in touch and expanding our network of Veterans and friends.

10/10/2024

Hey check out our upcoming FREE comprehensive class on ! Did you know you can make supplemental $ and protect your by being an official site? Come learn how and hear about various tyoes of growing options that can be agritourism - flowers, herbs, hydro and aqua ponics and more! Join us Oct 19th from 10am - 3:30pm (continental breakfast and lunch included) Recirculating Farms Growing Local site 1924 Jackson Ave in Central City New Orlean 70113. Please RSVP to [email protected] so we have enough food and supplies for everyone!

09/30/2024

Hey enthusiasts - check our our FREE classes for Oct!

09/26/2024

Hey join us in wishing Happy Birthday to Lesli Harris for District B! Thank you for all you do - we appreciate you and your team!!

09/24/2024

Hey new community at our Growing Local - 1924 Jackson Ave! Shout out to Glass Half Full for partnering with us!

09/13/2024

City of New Orleans Announces Additional Post-Hurricane Francine Resources Available:

EMERGENCY RESOURCE CENTERS

The following New Orleans Recreation Development (NORD) Commission recreation centers will be open as Emergency Resource Centers on Friday, Sept. 13 from 7 a.m. – 7 p.m. for cooling and device charging:

Rosenwald Recreation Center (1120 S. Broad St.)

Spanish interpretation available
Oxygen exchange available
Cutoff Recreation Center (6600 Belgrade St.)

Oxygen exchange available
Joe Brown Recreation Center (5601 Read Blvd.)

Treme Recreation Center (900 N. Villere St.)

Spanish interpretation available
Oxygen exchange available
If oxygen is needed outside of the listed hours, residents can contact the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) non-emergency line at 504-821-2222.

COMMUNITY LIGHT HOUSES

Together New Orleans has activated the following Community Lighthouse locations for cooling and device charging:

Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 11a.m. -1p.m. (1823 Washington Ave.)
Broadmoor Community Church, 9a.m. – 5p.m. (2021 S. Dupre St.)
First Grace UMC, 10a.m. – 2p.m. (3401 Canal St.)
Trinity Community Center, 8a.m. – 5p.m. (3908 Joliet St.)
Many of these sites still need volunteers. If you would like to volunteer at a Community Lighthouse, sign up at http://www.togethernola.org/storm_response.

07/02/2024

Just a heads up that we will not be packing a Growing Local Box this week.

Our team is observing the Federal holiday on Thursday and enjoying a day of rest on Friday. We’ll have three more weeks of boxes in July before we go on our programming break in August so stay tuned for more!

06/19/2024

Do you know about Juneteenth? It is a U.S. federal holiday on June 19th, nationally recognized since just 2021, though celebrated widely for generations by many people. It commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people in the U.S. The holiday was first celebrated in Texas, where on that date in 1865, in the aftermath of the Civil War, enslaved people were informed that they were legally free under the terms of the 1862 Emancipation Proclamation.