Listen Local is Mission Local’s biweekly radio program. We broadcast live online at BFF.fm every other Thursday morning from 9:30 to 10:00. Now in its new home at the Placita, the Mission Community Market has been around for seven years as the neighborhood’s farmers market. But it is more than just another place to buy produce. We talk with Jeremy...
Years in the making, a public space on Bartlett Street between 21st and 22nd streets will jointly open with the Mission Community Market today. A ribbon-cutting at 4 p.m. will kick off the season of the recurring farmers’ market, which for seven years has been run on 22nd Street between Valencia and Mission streets. It will now operate in the newly renovated block...
Before opening the new Mercado Plaza on Bartlett Street between 21st and 22nd streets in March, Mission Community Market is trying to figure out what neighbors want to see under the new city-sponsored canopy. With the help of six bilingual youth surveyors, Mission Community Market organizers plan to pick the brains of 200 neighbors about what kind of cultural, arts, and...
Not sure what’s for dinner? How about a chef’s dinner in a box? Local chefs are teaming up with the Mission Community Market and Good Eggs to offer market shoppers some tasty dinner options. Each week a local chef will choose seasonal recipes for a Chef’s Market Box. Boxes will include a chef’s recipe and all of the ingredients required,...
Ideas are blooming for Bartlett Street. Beyond the weekly community market, what could be done to permanently improve the block between 21st and 22nd? Neighbors met last to night to brainstorm. What about a living wall with plants? Why not paint a horizontal mural on the street? What if the curbs were removed and it became a mixed-use street? Could...
Jet Martinez has a new mural at 22nd and Bartlett. It's really, really nice and today there's a dedication at the Community Market on Bartlett between 5 and 8 p.m.
THOUGHTS AND DOUBTS OF A MISSION PARENT Hey Kids! is a weekly feature looking at what’s coming up for families and kids of all ages. Darn, life has changed. It seems but a flash ago when satin gathered to mind the kinky hushes of French lingerie, while linen was of stylish summer garb for strolls in sandy sunsets. In the...
