The Crescent City Farmers’ Market announces its 3rd annual Festivus, featuring local and fair trade crafts, music from the Office of Homeland Serenity, and (hopefully) once again a Festivus Pole.

Festivus will take place on Saturday, December 10th, 11am-4pm at the site of the Saturday markets, 700 Magazine Street.

This meeting of board members with Pharon at Melonheads will be to discuss how we will jointly operate in the space. Board members should advise John Calhoun as to whether they will be able to attend.

The meeting will take place at 6pm on Wednesday, November 30, at the Melonhead Cafe.

In this meeting we will look more closely at how we’d use the space, and hopefully make progress in defining exactly how many square feet we will be using.

The meeting will start at 3:30p.m. at the Melonhead Cafe, 2801 Dauphine Street (at Saint Ferdinand Street), in Faubourg Marigny.

The Greater New Orleans Community Data Center (GNOCDC) have released a new set of data and maps capturing the effect of Hurricane Katrina on the city, and tracking the recovery effort so far. Some of the new topics, as described in their press release:

• What was the extent of the flooding?

• How many citizens are returning and to what parts of town?

• Where are the zip code boundaries?

• Where did we all go? Where have former New Orleans residents evacuated?

• What’s the elevation of different neighborhoods?

• Where are there concentrations of historic housing outside the protection of federal historic districts?

• What neighborhoods had the highest percent of households without cars to evacuate in?

• What progress is being made in rebuilding New Orleans?

We’ve posted announcements about GNOCDC data before: they provide a fascinating view of New Orleans demographics in multiple formats including graphic maps. The Greater New Orleans Community Data Center is a product of Nonprofit Knowledge Works and is supported in part by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Technology Opportunities Program. They provide a wonderful source of information for grant-seeking area nonprofits.

Many people and organizations have asked for a way to make donations to the New Orleans Food Co-op through our website - and it’s finally possible. For more information, please see the Support the NOFC page.