Garden Updates...Check these out!

New grass gardens has been a wondeful job on the garden. There are rows of bulls blood beets, rat tail radishes, red russian kale, several types of long cucumbers, over 15 varieties of heirloom tomatoes, lemon squash, cantelope and watermelons, salad blends, over 12 varieties of peppers, eggplant, carrots, fingerling potatoes, horseradish, cabbage, broccoli, crooked neck squash, zucchini, 5 varieties of basil, leeks, shallots, rainbow swiss chard, cherry tomatoes of all types, arugala, corn, and many more i cant even remember. Matt and Hana are constantly making new beds and planting new things each week. It is looking great and the tomatoes are starting to ripen. we should have some really nice stuff for our opening day July 14th from 4-7pm at the warehouse.

Bickett Market Organizes the New Five Points Farmers Market

Five Points Farmers Market is a neighborhood farmers market that is located in the heart of Five Points.

Our Mission is to get the neighborhood community more involved with supporting local sustainable goods through our market. Supporting local is in high demand these days, and we thought we could influence this movement by starting this neighborhood market.

This market was put together with the vision of getting this community more aware and involved in the local food scene. We want to educate people on the importance of supporting the local farmers, and fishermen. There is great opportunity in the city to really be a front runner in the local foods movement; we are very excited to be a part of that.

The people who are responsible for this exciting new market are the following: Jean Martin of Nofo, Jonathan Botta of Bickett Market, Jason Stegall of SouthPort Seafood Company/Bickett Market, and Aly Young of NoFo. This group has worked especially hard to insure the success of this market.

Bickett Market will feature "fresh" NC Seafood from Southport Seafood Co.

SOUTHPORT SEAFOOD COMPANY

Jason holding some fresh head-on shrimp direct from the boat to the Farmers Market.

These beautiful NC greentail white shrimp are the sweetest you will find anywhere in the world.

Southport Seafood Co & Bickett Market gets fresh littleneck clams deliverd 3 times each week. We get these from Sneads Ferry, NC and Lockwood Folly & Cape fear Rivers.

You can find Southport Seafood Co. at many of the Triangles best small scale Farmers markets including South Estes FM in Chapel Hill, Midtown Farmers Market at North Hills mall, Downtown Raleigh Farmers Market, Western Wake Farmers Market, North Raleigh Farmers Market.

Bickett Market has its own Neighborhood Garden

Bickett Market has just finished the careful soil conditioning, tilling and mulching and have our first set of greens almost ready to harvest. Our garden will produce over 127 varieties (mostly heirloom) for the store. Our Spring planting includes: We have partnered in our garden with a new company called New Grass Gardens. Their focus is on farming and installing produce gardens in residential properties. They will install and maintain the gardens for homeowners and teach and educate on how to grow all types of produce. They have several farm/gardens currently under management in the Five Points Neighborhood.