The Village of Harrisonburg, Louisiana, the 750-person seat of Catahoula Parish, will soon provide a centralized location for farmers to sell their fresh, healthy produce to its citizens and others in the surrounding area. The Village received funding through USDA’s Community Facility grant program in order to provide a location for a farmer’s market in their town.
This farmers market project will provide an essential public service to a persistently poverty-afflicted area with an unemployment rate of 54.9 percent and a median household income of under $22,000, which is below the poverty level. Catahoula Parish is a special emphasis parish as well as a 2008 presidentially declared disaster parish.
The market will be 2,550-square-foot open-air building with a concrete masonry unit wall along the south side for shading purposes. A walkway to the building will be constructed to link it to designated parking spaces to allow access by physically impaired persons. The building consists of a pre-engineered metal structure on a concrete foundation.
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