Northwest Detroit Farmers’ Market Vendor Feature: 313 Teas

What is the names of your business, and what are you selling? 313 Teas. All natural herbal and fruit teas. What are your social media handles, and if you have a website, what’s the address? IG: @313teas How long have you been at it? Since the start of 2020. What are your future plans for…

Northwest Detroit Farmers’ Market Vendor Feature: Side Chips

What is the names of your business, and what are you selling? Side Chips – Collard green chips What are your social media handles, and if you have a website, what’s the address? https://www.instagram.com/side_chips_llc/ How long have you been at it? 1 year What are your future plans for your business? I’d like to transfer…

Northwest Detroit Farmers’ Market Vendor Feature: Good Medicine Farm

What is the names of your business, and what are you selling? Good Medicine Farm – plants and produce What are your social media handles, and if you have a website, what’s the address? Nstephens859@icloud.com How long have you been at it? 30 years What are your future plans for your business? I’d like to…

Northwest Detroit Farmers’ Market Vendor Feature: Bernie and Jo’s

What is the names of your business, and what are you selling? Bernie and Jo’s – Women’s accessories What are your social media handles, and if you have a website, what’s the address? IG: @bernie.and.jo; FB: Bernie and Jo’s; website: www.berniejos.com How long have you been at it? Roughly one year What are your future…

Meet Chelsea Salame, GRDC’s Economic Development Manager

Chelsea Salame first came to GRDC at a University of Michigan intern in 2020. For a year, Chelsea scheduled all the programming for the Northwest Detroit Farmers’ Market, worked on a beautification grant on behalf of the Vacant Property Task Force, and helped homeowners in danger of losing their home to foreclosure complete the Property…

Lemonade and Beyond: A Family Enterprise

Lemonade and Beyond and the Detroit Original Seafood Truck are much more widely known than Cathy, Rashad, Christie, Rashad, Jr., Nasir, Cadar, Jewel, Laikyn, Laziyah, Martez, Lavoier, or Armoni. Shoppers come to the Northwest Detroit Farmers’ Market just to get a lemonade, or maybe a lemonade with mango, green apple, or the newest option: dragon…

Grannies Pound Cakes: A Northwest Detroit Farmers’ Market Favorite

When friends and family urged Patrice Davis, “You should sell these, they are delicious!” Patrice did not have being a farmers’ market vendor in mind. Patrice knew her baked goods were delicious. After all, her goal was to bake butter pound cakes like her Aunt Amy. Patrice experimented a while, tweaked the recipe, and although…

Meet Ron English, Detroit Jazz Legend and Grandmont Rosedale Resident

Jazz guitarist Ron English, composer and pianist Michael Malis, bassist Jaribu Shahid, and Tariq Gardner, drummer will be performing two long sets on Thursday, August 5, at the Northwest Detroit Farmers’ Market, 18445 Scarsdale. The first set will start about 4:30 pm, and the other at 6 or 6:30 pm. Ron and Michael live in…

Ashley Hughes Chooses the Northwest Detroit Farmers’ Market as the First Home for Little Icy’s Luncheonette

Icyphine, or Icy, was a farmer’s wife from Indiana who moved to Michigan’s thumb in the 1920s, and who loved to cook three times a day for everyone who worked on the farm. When Ashley Hughes was about nine, her family noticed her resemblance to her great grandmother Icy, and so “Little Icy” stuck. Ashley…

Meet John Jones, Jr. – The Northwest Detroit Farmers’ Market Manager

John’s introduction to outdoor Detroit produce markets started not as a shopper or a vendor. John’s dad was in charge of security at Eastern Market, and about seven years ago, the security department was looking for some more workers. John figured, “Why not? It’s a job, right?” Over time, John came to love Eastern Market.…