Every Thursday afternoon from 3PM- 6Pm we host the Homegrown Alabama Farmer's Market on our front lawn. This is a great way for students of the University, as well as Tuscaloosa community members and our own parishoners and residents to have convenient access to all locally-grown vegetables and fruits, and well as locally-made bread & baked goods. There's live music and a community space for everyone to sit down and share a meal with one another. We want to support great eating, and great fellowship.

Check them out at www.homegrownalabama.org

Our New Local Food Ministry Initiative

We at Canterbury have loved hosting & supporting the Homegrown Alabama Farmer's Market for two years now, and we look forward to them restarting this May. We here at Canterbury are a bunch of food-nuts, and we love anything that helps support local food and better eating in our community. This year our students voted to allot $1,000 to purchase locally-grown, healthy, organic vegetables and other foods from our own farmer's market to then incorporate into our Tuesday morning food ministry. With the help of residents with great knowledge of local food prorgramming and education, as well as the leaders of the farmer's market, our goal is to provide help to community members who are in need of food to find healthy, nutritious ways to feed their families. Many families can be intimidated by fresh fruits and veggies because they do not know how to prepare them, and it can be easier to prepare processed food out of a box or out of a fast food bag. We hope that this year we can help families find ways to eat that are easy, healthy, and local. Check back here to our Homegrown Alabama page to see how this initiative goes when we start in ths Summertime!