Mark LaMaire Grows Produce for Louisiana and Asian Dishes at Pelican Gardens

By Will Coviello

NOLA.com

Mark LaMaire is a musician who also works with a nonprofit focusing on projects in Thailand. He also runs Lahpet, a Burmese food pop-up, which he is doing less often during the pandemic. LaMaire started the quarter-acre urban farm Pelican Gardens to grow food for Lahpet and now supplies some local chefs with hard-to-find ingredients used in Asian and Indian cuisines.