Great News!: Are you Spanish Speaking and interested in having backyard chickens? Then check this out…if you don’t speak Spanish don’t worry we have an English version in March.

How to Raise Back-Yard Chicken Workshop (in SPANISH)
February 13th-11 a.m. to Noon
Cost: $5 ($2 to LFCL’s member)
Broad Flea
300 North Broad
The Latino Farmers Cooperative of Louisiana invite you to this Spanish-speaking workshop which includes live chickens, fresh eggs for sale as well as poultry suppliers for demonstration. A carpenter will be on site telling you how to build a simple chicken coop. This program is sponsored in part by Heifer International, LSUAg Center, and Broad Community Connections. For more information please contact Melissa (512) 589-4938

Quiere aprender como criar gallinas en el patio de su casa?
Capacitacion para Latinos en Espanol
Sabado 13 de Febrero
11 a.m. a Medio Dia
Costo: $5 ($2 miembros)
Mercado de la Broad (Broad Flea Marketplace)
300 North Broad (esquina de Broad y Bienville)
La Cooperative de Agricultores Latinos se complace en invitarlo a esta capacitacion la cual include gallinas ponedoras y huevos frescos para la venta asi como tambien demostracion de los articulos necesarios para criar gallinas en su casa. Un carpintero les ensenara como hacer un gallinero facil. Este program is patrocinado en parte por Heifer International, LSU Ag Center y Broad Community Connections. Para mayor informacion llamar a Melissa (512) 589-4938.

Broad Community Connections was featured on WWNO on January 5th. BCC’s Executive Director Jeff Schwartz spoke about our vision for a vibrant Broad Street, and the opportunities and challenges in making that vision a reality. Broad is open for business!

Jeff is interviewed by Ian McNulty, and BCC would like to thank Ian, WWNO, and the Greater New Orleans Foundation—particularly Martha Landrum—for highlighting BCC and the potential on Broad Street.

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The first Broad Street Flea Market of the New Year will be this Saturday, January 9th, from 11AM—4PM, at 300 N Broad. We’ll have our usual, wonderful selection of crafts, art, collectibles, bikes, services & non-profits, and food, plus some great new vendors and music by the Third World Soul Revue!

Stop by to say ‘hi’ at the BCC table and get some free hot chocolate and coffee. Looking forward to seeing you out there!

BCC is working with the developer of a new Family Dollar store that will be going into the former Whitney Bank building at 2650 Canal Street, at the corner of S Broad to ensure that the landmark mid-century Modernist building will be preserved. We’re happy to announce that the developer has agreed to preserve the entire facade of the building!

The development will adaptively reuse the structure to create groundfloor commercial retail and second-story office space, providing an excellent example that economic development does have to undermine the built environment and cultural heritage of our great neighborhoods—in fact, they go hand-in-hand. We’re happy to have Family Dollar coming to the Broad Street corridor, and we look forward to the further revitalization of Broad Street!