Laughing Buddha Nursery
Farmshop, butcher
Laughing Buddha Nursery is a farmer owned grocery and garden shop in Metairie, Louisiana selling pastured eggs, grass fed beef and pork from its own Local Cooling Farms plus goods from about 40 local producers.
Laughing Buddha Nursery is a farmer owned grocery and garden shop in Metairie, Louisiana, run by the people behind Local Cooling Farms in Rio.
On the farm they raise pastured eggs, woodland pork, grass fed beef and wild foraged goat using regenerative principles and rotational grazing, and they make their own compost and soil blends as well.
The shop brings all of that to town along with weekly deliveries from upwards of 40 regional farmers and producers, mainly in Louisiana and Mississippi. Expect local produce, dairy, poultry, ferments, honey and fresh bread, plus seeds, organic fertilisers and natural pest control for growing your own.
What they sell
- Pasture raised eggs
- Grass fed beef
- Woodland raised pork
- Wild foraged goat
- Local produce
- Garden supplies and seeds
Plan your visit
- You can visit in person
- Delivers locally
From the community
4.7
From 85 Google reviews
Knowledgeable, helpful, personable!
Selection is very good, especially for meat, and the people who work there are fabulous.
Laughing Buddha is run by the most caring and thoughtful humans who work themselves so hard to keep this place running for all of us! Thank you for helping provide local food to us all. Super grateful!
(Nicr farm to table '






