Megan Kenney and David Flores on KSLG! | Photo: Sabina


(AUDIO) Friday Night Market Report on KSLG

If you were anxiously awaiting your next Friday Night Market fix, tonight is the night! Another long work week ends with bumping shoulders with your fellow community members while partaking in some local shopping.

Megan Kenney, Board Secretary of Humboldt Made and Director of the North Coast Growers’ Association Harvest Hub stopped by the Old Town KSLG studio to chat with DJ Sabina about the bridge between Humboldt Made and NCGA and how that came together to create the Friday Night Market.

Joining Kenney was David Flores, owner of North Coast 3D Printing, a family owned, home-based local business printing beautiful 3D models. From dragons to baby T-Rex, you can find NC3D creations in stores like The Rocking Horse in Arcata, the Toy Box in Eureka, The Legend of Bigfoot Gift Shop and more!

Kenney and Flores also touched on the spirit of community collaboration in vending, agriculture and highlighted Aquilli Metzili, this week’s non-profit takeover. Aquilli Metzili is a farm to table masa cooperative growing milpa - based products.

From the Aquilli Metzili website:

“Welcome to Aquilli Metzli, a community-based cooperative reimagining food, land, and culture on the North Coast.

We’re a group of farmers, cooks, artists, parents, organizers, and neighbors who believe in the power of growing food together—not just to feed ourselves, but to remember who we are. At the heart of our work is Milpa—an ancestral agricultural system that’s more than just planting corn, beans, and squash. It’s about building relationships with the land, with each other, and with the generations who came before us.

Aquilli Metzli is creating a seed-to-table masa co-op, where culture and economy meet in the daily act of making food with love and intention. By working together, we’re building something that’s cooperative, regenerative, and rooted in our own cultural skills and stories. This is how we care for our families, our communities, and the land that holds us.

We envision a future where Latinx and Indigenous communities thrive by leading the way in ecological healing, food sovereignty, and cultural celebration. A future where making masa is also making space—for joy, learning, ceremony, and connection.

This is an invitation: to show up, get your hands in the soil, share a meal, learn something new, and help build a better way of living—together.”

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