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Laughing Buddha Nursery

Name: Laughing Buddha Nursery
Address: 4516 Clearview Pkwy, Metairie, LA, 70006, US
Telephone: +15048874336
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Laughing Buddha Nursery

Local groceries from and 25 other regional farms & producers. Soil + compost too!

Laughing Buddha Nursery is a gardening shop turned farmer-owned local grocery! Our mission is to 1) help people eat well by sourcing food from local, sustainable farms and 2) supply people with the knowledge and tools to be successful in their gardening pursuits. LBN began in 2003, carrying organic gardening supplies, eventually adding a line of soil and compost products, hydroponics supplies and

even home brew supplies. Since starting our regenerative, pasture-based farm -- Local Cooling Farms -- in 2015, our focus has shifted to offering our own farm products (grass-fed beef and goat meat and pasture-raised eggs and pork) alongside other local foods grown or produced in our region: pasture-raised dairy and chicken, Gulf seafood, organically grown produce, value-added products like ferments and pickles, jams and jellies, rice, pasta, bread, coffee, sauces and more. You can shop in our store, pre-order online and pick up in store or from one of our neighborhood delivery hubs around New Orleans and the Northshore. We still produce high quality soil and compost blends and offer them alongside organic seeds, fertilizers and gardening amendments. Overall we want to help you eat and grow the best food that you can in our region!

06/24/2026

Peak summer local groceries for you this week — at our Metairie storefront for online order pick up or in person shopping or via four farm hubs and home delivery routes!

Fresh dairy, eggs and tons of colorful produce came in today, including the first okra of the season, that I promptly forget to include in the photo, whoops.

There’s also plenty of our protein staples including grassfed beef, pastured pork and chicken, wild-foraged goat meat, Gulf seafood and locally made tofu.

Get this summer bounty while the getting is good! 🍅🍆🥒🌽🍑🥔🫐

06/23/2026

It’s worth it, right??

We’ve had a stretch of tough breaks with equipment breaking seeming constantly, being short staffed and then of course dealing with the semi apocalyptic weather like everyone else in our region lately.

And that’s been the question ringing in my head as I’m hustling to do a bunch of home deliveries on a Friday night or rearranging fridges and coolers for the millionth time, getting back to the farm late, fighting traffic, worrying about the weather…wondering if it’s all worth it.

And in those instances, while there’s a momentary appeal of a comfy 9-to-5 job that I gave up nearly 10 years ago, I know deep down that it IS worth it.

It’s getting texts and messages in orders from y’all that say things like “thank you for making local food accessible” and “it’s been incredibly helpful having the deliveries being a new momma and finally starting to cook again.”

It’s worth it when you tell us how much you love the food we offer and how much better it makes you feel!

It’s worth it seeing the same customers week in and week out, exciting to find out what’s new in season and get their favorite proteins, egg and dairy along with it.

And of course it’s worth it for the quality of food we get to eat at home, the connection we feel with the land and the ecosystem we’re building back bit by bit and seeing our animals living their best lives and thriving.

It IS worth it. I just need to turn the persistent question in my mind into a triumphant statement sometimes. 😉

Thank you for keeping us busy and don’t forget to get your orders in this week for store pick up in Metairie or our offsite hubs and home deliveries in Mandeville, Covington, Lakeview-Mid-City-Gentilly, Irish Channel, Uptown and more.

We love you and wouldn’t be here without you! 💞

06/18/2026

Thanks for keeping us so busy to start the week!

Retail can be so unpredictable, and June is an especially weird month — so much seasonal bounty but schools out and people are on vacations and you just never know what demand will be like!

So anyway, we appreciate everyone who has ordered this week and come in to shop! We always do, but especially in highly unpredictable summer!

The vibrantly colored produce continues and we’re getting tons of salad greens, blackberries, zephyr squash, several types of tomatoes and mushrooms from Homegrown in Folsom and Screaming Oaks tomorrow.

Plus more hummus is coming too, some fun fingerling potatoes, shish*to peppers, more sweet corn and Alabama peaches!

There’s still time to order for our home delivery route in Mid-City, Lakeview, Gentilly, Treme, St. Roch, Marigny and Bywater tomorrow, our Bywater Farm Hub at Parleaux Beer Lab or our home delivery route on Friday that spans from Downtown to Uptown, Broadmoor, Old Jefferson and Old Metairie on Friday.

06/17/2026

So much bright and cheery local food for you this week while we hold our breath for how much rain we’re all gonna get!

Gingerbooch is back with not only their signature drinks — three flavors of kombucha, plus probiotic lemonade and limeade — but also traditional kimchi and green sauerkraut.

And we restocking Bayou Sarah Farms ground buffalo and also bones for rich, nutrient-dense bone broth!

Plus River Queen Greens is really bringing in the summer harvests, especially colorful peppers!

Faust Farms brought us more heirloom tomatoes, graffiti eggplant, bell peppers and slicing cucumbers today, too.

And we restocked our Kate - New Orleans Area Farmer beef (limited cuts), pork and goat meat this afternoon, along with more eggs, Feliciana’s Best dairy and il supremo fresh pasta.

And we got a little more Nur's Kitchen hummus than usual last week to try hold us over to our Thursday restock and it worked! We’re not sold out just yet.

Our Algiers Point Farm Hub moves back to a weeknight this week — to Wednesdays. We’ll also have our Bywater Farm Hub at Parleaux Beer Lab on Thursday and home delivery routes in both Algiers and Bywater, as well as Lakeview, Mid-City and Gentilly and Downtown through Uptown, Broadmoor, Old Jefferson and Old Metairie.

You can come see us to pick up an order or shop in person in Metairie, as well.

06/12/2026

Peaches are back for the weekend!

Plus purple broccoli (and green broccoli, too!), plenty of berries (black and blues!), gorgeous salad greens, eggplant, peppers, squash, green beans, potatoes and tomatoes (plus not pictured root veggies, sweet corn, microgreens and herbs), restocked hummus, local seafood, grassfed and pastured meats, eggs and dairy, restocked hummus, coffee and tons more.

Thursday is a big restock day for us from several of the farmers and vendors we source from weekly. Then again so is Tuesday and Wednesday and Friday! 😂

In any case, head to our online storefront to check out all 400+ items we have in stock and get your orders in!

You can still order for our home delivery route from Downtown through Uptown, Old Jefferson and Old Metairie tomorrow, or for pick up in Metairie.

Or come shop in person! Open 10-6 tomorrow and Saturday.

06/11/2026

Don’t sleep on chuck steaks!

Dare I say they’re the perfect cut for tacos, fajitas and rice bowls?

Chuck steaks are cut from the chuck primal, further up the ribs from ribeyes. And therefore they’re also known as poor man’s ribeye! (Technically ribeyes are cut from the 6th-12th ribs and chuck eye is just the 5th rib, further forward are just chuck steaks 😉).

Anyway, it’s very easy to get great steak — just defrost, pat dry, salt liberally and ideally let the salt draw out and then reabsorb the moisture for a few hours.

Then get a cast iron really hot, add oil or tallow right before you put the steaks on. For this thickness, I did about 3 minutes per side.

Then rest, loosely covered in foil for at least 5 minutes so you don’t lose all the juices, then slice against then grain and devour!

We had these with all the fajita fixings — peppers, onions and mushrooms, black eyed peas and rice, steamed sprouting cauliflower and a fresh salsa with corn, tomatoes, green onions and peppers (and literally all ingredients from the shop or my garden!).

There were plenty of leftovers for multiple meals, too! 👩‍🍳

06/10/2026

🍅 We’ve got nearly 50 items in the produce category this week! 🥳

Tomatoes galore, plus eggplant, peppers, berries, melons, sweet corn, greens and lots more.

For the first time, we added a “seconds” item on sale for both creole and heirloom tomatoes and some super delicious cantaloupe. These just have splits (the melons) or blemishes, so we’re not selling for full price.

We also have lots of pastured eggs and dairy, meats, Gulf seafood, tofu, preserves, pickles and ferments, coffee and tea, rice and grits, honey and maple syrup and the list goes on! 😉

And check out the last pic for our hubs and home delivery routes this week.

06/09/2026

🥓🥬🍅🍞🌽 Big time summer vibes this week!

It’s peak BLT season *and* we have silver queen sweet corn.

We had the ultimate summer experience eating a BLT and with our homegrown bacon, a heirloom tomato, Homegrown in Folsom lettuce on honey oat bread, along with corn on the side!

I also made a BLT-meets-caprese salad with leftover bacon, tomato, lettuce, basil and fresh mozzarella and it was also amazing.

We’re open tomorrow (Tuesday) through Saturday as usual and we’ll have farm hubs in Mandeville, Covington and Irish Channel, with home delivery routes in surrounding neighborhoods, plus our delivery only route in parts of Metairie, Lakeview, Mid-City and Gentilly.

Head to our website for details or to order!

And in response to some customers asking what day we receive our regular deliveries, I added a specific “expected deliveries by day of the week” section to the weekly availability blog. Find it at www.laughingbuddhanursery.com/blog-1/. 🫶

Address

4516 Clearview Pkwy
Metairie, LA
70006

Opening Hours

Tuesday	10am - 6pm
Wednesday	10am - 6pm
Thursday	10am - 6pm
Friday	10am - 6pm
Saturday	10am - 6pm

Telephone

+15048874336

Website

http://www.laughingbuddhanursery.com/

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