Thursday market shuttered again for rain

Once again, the dismal weather forecast has forced a closure of the Thursday Red Stick Farmers Market at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center. The Saturday Farmers Market will be open rain or shine at 501 Main St. downtown from 8 a.m. to noon and features a bounty of cool crops, including several varieties of cauliflower from white to green broccoflower and purple Romanesco. The Saturday market also features a 10 a.m. cooking demonstration, this week conducted by Chef Richard Markert of Taste Restaurant in the Main Street Market. Markert will prepare Shrimp Bang Bang Grit Cakes. Another Main Street Market vendor, GoYaYa’s creperie, introduces new specialty coffees this weekend.—Maggie Heyn Richardson