Nam and Anna's Garden

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Saturdays, 7:30a - 12p
May - October
415 E. Washington St.
Iowa City, IA 52240

It’s coming together!!

Hi y’all - what do you make with the fruits and veggies you purchase from our stall? Anyone have simple or favorite recipes to share? We’re curious what our regulars make from our produce and what new things you all may have discovered or added to your repertoire since we opened shop over a decade ago.

Time to visit the market!





Saturdays, 7:30a - 12p
May - October
415 E. Washington St.
Iowa City, IA 52240

Headed to the kitchen and was hit by this. House smells so good! Mom’s started baking for tomorrow!

Quick food break before the late night. Veggie medley soup with yam leaves, amaranth, green onion, chard, luffa, chives, Dino kale, and Siberian kale. Spring rolls with lemon grass and Vietnamese mint. And perilla chicken and fried fish wraps. So fresh. We’ll be harvesting some of these tonight. Come shop for dinner ingredients tomorrow!

Iowa City Farmers Market
Saturdays, 7:30a - 12p
May - October
415 E. Washington St.
Iowa City, IA 52240

Harvesting seeds for next year!

We have a visitor tonight! My mom named her Lucky and Stanley’s been furious with her slinking around his turf.

Choosing plants for the market tomorrow. Out Jasmine are about to bloom and the ginger looks about to pop the pot! We have lemons, limes, succulents, spiders, shamrocks and more.

See you at the market!

Market is live! Stop on by!


Saturdays, 7:30a - 12p
May - October
415 E. Washington St.
Iowa City, IA 52240
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It’s a sponge squash weekend! Also known as luffa gourd. This fruit is full of antioxidants, vitamins, nutrients, lipids, minerals and is wicked-healthy. It's rich in vitamin A which reduces bad cholesterol and triglycerides. In addition, Luffa minimizes heart risk, prevents diabetes, muscle pain, reduces arthritis, promotes healthy skin, treats anemia, overcomes migraines, etc. The fruit cooks up like eggplant and serves well in stir fry, sautéed, soups, and stews. Come and get some tomorrow at the market!


Saturdays, 7:30a - 12p
May - October
415 E. Washington St.
Iowa City, IA 52240

Good morning, friends! Beautiful day for harvest. Have a wonderful Friday! Catch you at the market tomorrow!

Dad mapping out the plans in his head. He’s always wanted a greenhouse but the cost to set one up is more than we make each season. He has so many plans for this tiny space - setting up a nursery, spring vs fall greens, housing for our succulents, etc. This will allow us to grow and maintain more greens at the start and end of the season when temperatures fluctuate. We received a grant this year, got a kit, and are excited to dig into this project!

WOW!!! 🤩 🍑

It’s harvest day! See you at the market tomorrow!

Anyone excited for the first Saturday in August tomorrow!?Each month brings new fruits and veggies! Walking around the gardens to see what we’ll have. Looks like our peaches are ready for picking!!

Vietnamese crepes for dinner! With fresh herbs from the garden. Mint, fish mint, thai basil, vietnamese coriander, perilla, chives, lemon balm, and cucumbers.

One more day until the market this weekend!

We’ve made so many friends over the years at the Iowa City Farmers Market. 4.5 hours flies fast and we have a lot of short interactions but seeing the same faces week to week, season to season, we’ve gotten to know many of our customers, their families, and their food related experiences. These connections bring so much joy on busy mornings. We’re sad to hear you’re leaving but are excited for your opportunities ahead. Looking forward to hearing about your adventures when you visit. Have a safe move, !

Looking to add a plant to your already amazing collection? Look no further! Join us at the Iowa City Farmers Market today. In addition to our usual Jade Plants, we’re bringing dusty rose, blue prince, curry, kaffir line, lemon, double layer jasmine, rubber fig, and spider plants to the market this year. Dad started these from seeds and cuttings 3+ years ago!

Iowa City Farmers Market
Saturdays, 7:30a - 12p
May - October
415 E. Washington St.
Iowa City, IA 52240

Harvesting quickly hoping this thunderstorm warning doesn’t strike too hard. Pictured here is Water Celery. It has a distinctive celery-like flavor that’s strong fresh and subtle cooked. We put it in our spring rolls and salads, toss it on top of soups, and stir-fried with rice and noodles. Celery without the strings!

Here’s the list for tomorrow’s market. Catch you in the morning!

Basil, mints, catnip, perilla, shiso, water celery, lemon balm, chives, arugula, water celery, purslane, bitter melon leaves, bitter melon, spinach, sweet potato leaves, amaranth, potato leaves, long beans, sweet beans, thai basil, zucchini, cucumber, collard greens, chard, kale, egg plant, bitter melon, dehydrated catnip, garlic, chocolate mint, green onions, green garlic, chinese parsley

Our Philippine spinach is ready!

See you at the market tomorrow!

In addition to sesame balls, wafer cookies, and assorted plants, here’s our veggie list for this Saturday:

Basil, mints, catnip, perilla, shiso, water celery, lemon balm, chives, arugula, purslane, bitter melon leaves, spinach, amaranth, potato leaves, long beans, sweet beans, zucchini, cucumber, collard greens, chard, kale, egg plant, bitter melon, dehydrated catnip, garlic, chocolate mont, green onions, green garlic, chinese parsley

You know those moments you'll always remember of your parents? This is one of them. Dad saw an ad for this on Facebook. Look at the pure joy in his eyes putting together his hat. Mom's in the background saying he's crazy lol.

Can we take a moment to appreciate how beautiful these golden chard stems are!?We'll be bringing some to market tomorrow. Below's our list for July 15.

Herbs: sweet basil, thai basil, mint, chocolate mint, fish mint, vietnamese perilla, japanese perilla, dill, lemon balm, chinese celery, water celery, arugula, catnip, chives, goya leaves.

Leaf Greens: amaranth, malabar spinach, new zealand spinach, philippine spinach, swiss chard, red kale, dinosaur kale, siberian kale, purslane, collards

Other veggies: zucchini, sweet beans, eggplant

Treats: sesame ball, pandan sesame wafers, vanilla sesame wafers

Dehydrated: garlic greens, green onion, dill, chocolate mint tea, chinese celery/parsley

Plants: jade plants, lemon tree, lime tree, succulents

See you in the morning!

Iowa City Farmers Market
Saturdays, 7:30a - 12p
May - October
415 E. Washington St.
Iowa City, IA 52240

Spinach lovers - are you ready?! Bloomsdale comes first. Then New Zealand. A few of you have already asked for it and coming in as my (David's) favorite is Malabar! It looks like we'll be bringing our first batch to market on Saturday!!! I've already had some 😁

We have baby birds!! This is the last one to take flight. Momma bird made a nest in dad’s hanging airplane plant.

Friend hitched a free ride to market today.

Can you believe we’re over halfway through 2023? Here’s our mid-year harvest list. See you tomorrow in the ramp!

Sweet basil, thai basil, mint, chocolate mint, fish mint, perilla, lemon balm, water celery, goya leaves, catnip, chives, arugula, chinese celery, amaranth, new zealand spinach, swiss chard, red kale, dino kale, siberian kale, vietnamese sweet beans, purslane, zucchini. Sesame balls, sesame coconut wafers, dehydrated garlic greens, house plants.

7:30am - 12pm
415 E Washington St
Iowa City, IA 52240

Nam fixing up his succulents. We haven’t brought many plants to market for a few weeks since we relocated them all outside for the summer. Dad’s been working through them all, making sure they’ve acclimate to the move, and preparing them up with new soil. Will be bringing them back to market this weekend!

Iowa City Farmers Market
7:30am - 12pm
415 E Washington St
Iowa City, IA 52240

10:40p and still watering away. It’s been a hot summer, y’all. Where’s the rain at!?

Good day, everyone! It’s a beautiful morning for the Farmers Market. Here’s what we’ve got for you today:

Sesame balls, Vietnamese coconut sesame wafers, Pandan wafers, green onion, dill, cilantro, fish mint, arugula, mizuna, water celery, catnip, green onion, chives, leek, green garlic, spearmint, choy sum, chocolate mint, butter crunch, bekana, dinosaur kale, Swiss chard, red kale, mustard green, Siberian kale, komatsuna, spinach, Japanese red mustard, dried onions, garlic, parsley.

See you in the ramp!


7:30am - 12pm
415 E Washington St
Iowa City, IA 52240

Did you know, green onions are the most labor intensive greens on our table? We grow them up, dig them out, remove the outer layer, do a full wash of the base, trim the roots, then bundle. Harvesting and cleaning all happens the day before market. We bundle on the spot.

I took home some green onions and garlics a couple weeks ago to try dehydrating. My parents dehydrate herbs all the time for tea and medicine but I’d never considered it with our other greens. It turned out great so I made some for the market! This adds a couple full washed, over an hour of asmr chopping, two days of traditional sun curing on bamboo rattans, and a few days of continued drying inside - making these 10 containers our most time-consuming products to market. Each container is about one bunch of onion or half a bunch of garlic fresh.

If you follow our page, you know I love soup noodles. I carry dried chillies and seasonings to be ready for dinner everywhere. Adding this to my everyday carry lol.

Iowa City Farmers Market
7:30am - 12pm
415 E Washington St
Iowa City, IA 52240

This dill smells divine!

It’s been so hot and dry out. We finally got some rain!! But harvest day means we need to work doubles time cleaning these greens. Everything is steadily growing in so we’ll have a bit of every tomorrow.

Sesame balls, coconut sesame wafers, green onion, dill, cilantro, fish mint, water celery, catnip, green onion, chives, leek, green garlic, mint, chocolate mint, butter crunch lettuce, Japanese cabbage, kale, chard, mustard green, komatsuna, etc.

Remember this weekend is also the Summer of the Arts festival! Bring your family out for some community fun!

See you in the ramp!


7:30am - 12pm
415 E Washington St
Iowa City, IA 52240

Looking forward to market tomorrow. Here’s our list for Saturday, May 27th:

Sesame balls, Vietnamese wafers, green onion, dill, cilantro, fish mint, water celery, catnip, green onion, chives, leek, green garlic, spearmint, Vietnamese mint, chocolate mint, butter crunch lettuce, Tokyo Bekana, baby dinosaur kale, Swiss chard, baby red kale, mustard green, tender green komatsuna, spinach, and pictured here - Japanese giant red mustard.

See you in the ramp!


7:30am - 12pm
415 E Washington St
Iowa City, IA 52240

Coconut Sesame Wafer Cookies. Mom’s been perfecting her recipe the past two years - recreating her memories of home. She’s finally sharing them with the world. It’ll be our second week with these. Individually rolled tonight for market tomorrow. Grab a bag with your market coffee!

Of course she’ll have sesame balls as well. 😉

415 E. Washington St.
Iowa City, IA 52240
7:30am - 12pm

It’s been a beautiful day for harvest and we’re back at it.

So far, we’ve harvested choco mint, chives, green onion, mizuna, spinach, garlic greens, baby mustard, water celery, and rhubarb and more! Our greens are steadily growing in. See you tomorrow!

415 E. Washington St.
Iowa City, IA 52240
7:30am - 12pm

Charlie graduated from Macalester College this weekend with his bachelors in geography! I remember walking around this campus with him for orientation and his excitement at the opportunities ahead. Since then, he’s volunteered for various organizations, interned with Governer Walz’ office, written non-profit and research grants, served on student government, rose to the cabinet, then chief of staff, mentored two student groups, worked in admissions, coordinated the college access program in charge of 400 students, reconnected with our roots via study abroad in Vietnam, and much more. He’s staying in Minnesota this summer and planning his next adventures. Congratulations Graduate - we’re all proud of you!

Hi everyone- We’re headed up to Minneapolis for Charlie’s college graduation and will not be at the Farmers Market tomorrow (5/13).

We’ll be back to market next week on Saturday, May 20th.

Have a great Mothers Day weekend y’all!

Visit us at the first Farmers Market of the season! Try our Vietnamese Coconut Sesame Waffle Cookies. First time bringing these to the market!

Pick up a bag with your coffee from Cafe del Sol Roast across the aisle. :)

Washing some spearmint, chocolate mint, and baby mustard greens for the market tomorrow! Fresh and clean for your salads and sammiches!



Visit us at the Iowa City Farmers Market tomorrow!

415 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA 52240
7:30am - 12pm

It’s harvesting day! We’re looking forward to catching up with you all at the first Farmers Market of the season tomorrow!

To open market - we’re your go to vendors for green onion, chives, catnip, and sesame balls.

In addition to plants and starters including sweet basil, banana pepper, habanero pepper, jade plants, rubber plants, spider plants, snake plants, and lily of the valley.

Visit us in our usual spot in the center of the ramp!

Iowa City Farmers Market
415 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA 52240
7:30am - 12pm

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