2023 Season

Season recap

2023: The chef tent goes weekly

2023 was the year cooking demos became the heartbeat of both markets. Local DC chefs cycled through the chef tent week after week, turning whatever was in season into something everyone wanted the recipe for. Strawberry weekends in June felt like a small festival.

Highlights from 2023

  • Weekly cooking demos at both 14&U and Bloomingdale
  • Restaurant partnerships brought a rotating roster of guest chefs
  • Expanded gleaning program redirected surplus produce to local food banks
  • Producer Map updated with a wave of new growers from the Chesapeake Watershed

Scenes from the 2023 season

Producer table
Producer table
At the chef tent
At the chef tent
Cooking demo in action
Cooking demo in action
Strawberries, in season
Strawberries, in season
Spring radishes
Spring radishes
Eggs with pea tendrils
Eggs with pea tendrils

If 2022 was the comeback, 2023 was the season we found a new groove, a tighter market with more cooking, more talking, more tasting.