This September, we're meeting again for the Autumn Market, on September 19-20 at Hải Âu Bay Kindergarten, 145/8 Nguyễn Đình Chính, Phú Nhuận, HCMC.

This is a seasonal market, held only a few times a year, where gardeners and food makers bring what they grow and make themselves to sell; meeting one another, meeting customers, and taking the opportunity to get things done while in the city. All products at the market are grown without chemicals, or processed using mostly chemical-free ingredients with transparent origins. Products are mainly sold by weight, or in reusable bottles and jars, or wrapped in leaves and paper, with the spirit of reducing waste wherever possible. So, we invite you to take a look at what we're bringing so you can best prepare your own containers and make your market visit smooth and enjoyable!

Vườn nhà Vịt is a small-scale family garden, grown without chemicals, with a diverse range of crops and a focus on food self-sufficiency. The garden will bring its homemade products, including: handmade wooden items, nut butters (cashew, cashew-sesame, peanut), satay (shrimp and vegetarian), sugarcane molasses, caramel sauce, lemon ginger honey, aromatic leaves for bathing and hair washing, mugwort tea, passionflower tea, pickled bamboo shoots, taro, sáp bananas, along with whatever vegetables are ready to harvest; there will also be a cute 2nd-hand stall with friendly prices!

Rừng Om was established with the purpose of regenerating a multi-layered fruit garden using natural farming methods without chemicals. The garden's produce is harvested seasonally. This time, the garden is preparing more carefully for the market, with fresh produce including: xiêm bananas, banana blossoms, dragon fruit, limes, lemongrass and various vegetables... Processed products include: vegetarian seasoning powder without the five pungent spices, fried lemongrass in peanut oil, soapberry enzyme, dried xiêm bananas, adzuki bean tea, mint tea, guava leaf tea, dried carrots, dried cỏ sữa lá lớn, and wild banana seeds. In addition, the garden has propagated some easy-to-grow seedlings such as cúc cổ trà, bạc hà min, hương nhu tía... along with a small stall selling Hội An mót drink made from garden-grown ingredients and a few second-hand books.

Vườn Di Mộc is currently cultivating a garden of more than 3,500 m² and has stopped using chemical fertilizers and pesticides since 2021. The garden is being developed according to natural farming principles with multiple canopy layers, focusing on creating a balanced ecosystem and using microbial compost and organic materials for mulching, moisture retention and soil nourishment. Products presented at the stall include: sáp bananas, xiêm bananas, papaya, wax coconut, seasonal wild and garden vegetables, coconut oil, coconut caramel sauce, and green banana jam with raw sugar.

Vườn Liathia's Home is about to enter the flood season, with plenty of leafy vegetables, but since there are few people at home to harvest them, they'll bring a little of everything for fun: sweet potato shoots, rau sâm, Japanese amaranth, lá lốt, mixed garden greens, some fresh herbs, chùm bao, điên điển flowers, cassava shoots, chili, lemongrass, turmeric, galangal, button eggplant (white-flowered eggplant); boiled water hyacinth shoots, galangal shoots, and various bamboo shoots; banana blossoms, papaya, young jackfruit, coconut, breadfruit, lotus seed pods, pickled figs, some dried medicinal roots and leaves,... Handmade items such as coconut-leaf pot stands, bamboo boxes, cỏ đưng mats,... will also come with us to this season's market.

Vườn nhỏ nhà Sam chooses to grow vegetables without chemicals, on a small scale and with diverse varieties, as a profession and a livelihood for the family. This is not a temporary job, but a path we want to persistently walk together, for the long term and with endurance. At this market, I will bring naturally cultivated, chemical-free vegetables from the garden, bean sprouts hand-grown in pots, and pork lard that I render myself from crossbred black pigs raised through a clean and responsible process without industrial feed or antibiotics; I will bring information about the source and pig processing schedule to the market to connect with anyone interested.

Vườn Freedom Green Village is a multi-species, multi-layered garden that has been cultivated without chemicals since 2018. With the intention of restoring forests, preserving and nurturing forest areas. Therefore, many of the products are related to medicinal plants; everything is harvested and processed in the garden according to the seasons throughout the year, and whatever the garden can harvest will be made into products to sell or exchange. At this market, there will be: sầu sữa ice cream, avocado ice cream, pepper tea, winter melon tea, avocado fruit oil, tangerines soaked in honey, male papaya flowers soaked in honey, pepper sauce (savory), pepper sauce (vegetarian), mulberry syrup, fermented banana rice drink, lip balm / insect-bite balm made from avocado oil, brown rice, Robusta coffee, and some seasonal fruits/vegetables if available.

Vườn nhà Tép cultivates without chemicals on an existing green-skinned pomelo orchard. For this market, the garden will bring pomelos and some currently available vegetables such as jute mallow, pennywort, water spinach, and fish mint. Processed products include pomelo peel essential oil, and Tép will also have a pomelo juice stall at the market.

Cỏ is a small garden in the sunny, windy and frost-prone highlands of Phú Yên. This time Cỏ will bring to the market (from 8:00AM-11:00AM Saturday) a small amount of wood-roasted macadamia nuts from a 15-year-old macadamia garden. Since they will be sold on-site, Cỏ is very happy to sell them by weight according to the amount you need; please bring a sealed bag/container to hold them when you visit the market.

Xóm nhà Chồ is a small family that has practiced traditional handmade fish sauce production for 3 generations in the coastal village of Phan Rang, Ninh Thuận. In addition to its main fish sauce product, Xóm Nhà Chồ also brings rural Phan Rang specialties made with local chemical-free ingredients to the market, including: first-press black anchovy fish sauce aged for 2 years in white crape-myrtle wooden barrels, salt crystallized from first-press fish sauce, dried sụn seaweed, hổng dân seaweed jam, fish cakes, squid cakes, ground milk crab paste; food offerings always include bánh cuốn and bánh canh.

Bếp Bánh Trong Vườn is a small kitchen hidden within a diverse garden cultivated without chemicals, with the philosophy of making dishes from whatever the garden harvests, combined with carefully selected seasonal local ingredients. At this market, Bếp will offer many types of traditional cakes (bánh da lợn, cassava bánh tằm, baked banana cake, durian bánh pía, apricot blossom pineapple cakes, coconut bánh xà lam), vegan green banana flour cookies, chòi mòi syrup, lemongrass pandan tea, rose tea, banana molasses, and chewy dried bananas.

Phớt Space is a living, learning, and gardening space on the outskirts of Saigon. At this market, the garden will bring the following: nàng tiên bananas and Cavendish bananas, banana cake, bathing and steaming herbal packs made from fresh garden herbs, bread served with cashew sauce and garden herbs, and coffee brewed on-site.

This season, Nhím's small garden in the city doesn't have many resources, so Nhím will bring kombucha and cold brew coffee for refreshments at this market. Hopefully the garden will have a stall of ripening bananas or a few papayas, figs and pineapples, depending on what is available.

hiệu buông is a small kitchen, processing food here and there - sometimes in the garden, sometimes in the city. It keeps only one unchanging principle: "Say it as it is," from the ingredients to the production methods. hiệu buông selects ingredients from familiar sources, based on the reputation of the growers. The ingredients are grown without chemicals. The processing uses no additives. This season, hiệu buông brings to the market: carbonated fermented drinks - refreshing, warming, and "good" for the stomach (commonly known as "ginger beer") made from fruits and herbs - kumquat, apricot, sarsaparilla... and a little mulberry wine remaining in storage, fermented since 2024.

This time, there will also be Đệm cỏ bàng by dì Phượng in Long An, a product handmade from cỏ bàng stems with high durability, breathability and environmental friendliness.

Especially on Sunday morning, Góc Bếp will bring traditional mooncakes to join the festivities.

Góc Bếp is a small family bakery. For every cake, Bếp seeks out ingredients that are grown and raised without chemicals and are as clean and wholesome as possible. And even when making European-style cakes, Góc Bếp will try to Vietnamese-ize them as much as possible to suit people living in Vietnam.

The market will be held from
8:00AM - 5:00PM Saturday, 19/9 & 8:00AM - 12:00PM Sunday, 20/9
At Freebird Kindergarten | 145/8 Nguyễn Đình Chính, Phú Nhuận Ward, HCMC
If you are coming to the market, please park your two-wheeled vehicle at Phú Nhuận District Vocational Education - Continuing Education Center, 164 Nguyễn Đình Chính (100m walk).

See you this September!