Red Stick Farmers Market's New Executive Director Wants to Connect Farmers and Shoppers

By Robin Miller

The Advocate

Darlene Adams Rowland, Incoming BREADA Executive Director

Darlene Adams Rowland, Incoming BREADA Executive Director

Just about every Saturday morning, shoppers flock to the Red Stick Farmers Market in downtown Baton Rouge carrying off bags of satsumas and collards, milk and cream.

But long before the customers show up at 8 a.m., the farmers and the staff of the Big River Economic and Agricultural Development Alliance, which runs the market, have been hard at work.

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