We’ll see you on May 17, 2024!
Cook’s Market is is located at the entrance to Rutgers Gardens and operates rain or shine on Fridays from 11am-3pm. Use this address in your GPS: 130 Log Cabin Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901.
The Rutgers Gardens Farmers Market began as a student-led project. More than a decade later, the market moved into its new home, Cook’s Market. We are grateful to all of the donors who supported the permanent structure, which provides protected space for vendors and customers to shop. Today the market features more than 20 vendors, including the Rutgers Gardens Student Farm, which demonstrates land stewardship by practicing sustainable growing practices and providing our communities with quality, nutritious food.
Sign up for our email newsletter to see which vendors will be at the market each week, and follow our Instagram account. For information on how to become a vendor, please contact Moira Keihm at moira.keihm@rutgers.edu.
Cook’s Market vendors in 2023 specialized in fresh, locally grown and made products such as fruits and vegetables from several New Jersey farms, breads, pastries, cookies, and both vegan and gluten free desserts, honeys and maple syrups, granola, craft spirits, artisanal mushrooms, grassfed meats and brown eggs, vegan soaps, scrubs, and body butters, live plants, cut flowers and floral arrangements, olive oil, non-alcoholic wellness drinks, pickles and marinated vegetables, and frozen soups. Ready-to-eat foods included coastal Indian cuisine, Thai food, empanadas, fusion bowls, hot soup, and Jamaican specialties.
Rutgers Gardens Student Farm & SEBS Department of Nutritional Sciences Teamed Up
at Cook’s Market During Summer 2023
Through August 25th, the Rutgers Dietetic Interns tabled at Cook’s Market showcasing produce from the Student Farm through creative, culturally-diverse recipes developed by Rutgers Nutritional Sciences undergraduates and graduate students. Market customers sampled these delicious and healthy meals and took home recipe cards with nutrition information and preparation tips.
You can download all of the recipe cards here!
Week 1 – Cabbage, Carrot, & Cucumber Salad
Week 2 – Swiss Chard Wraps
Week 3 – Colorful Vegetable Fries
Week 4 – Roasted Beet Salad
Week 5 – Braised Green Beans
Week 6 – Chilled Carrot & Ginger Soup
Week 7 – Chickpea Caprese Salad
Week 8 – Honey, Peach, & Kale Smoothie