Pascale Le Draoulec
Market director, Morning Glory Markets

Pascale has been eating fresh & local since she was a kid growing up in California and her French expat parents would routinely take her foraging for watercress and snails for dinner. No surprise, she went on to become a newspaper food writer in the Bay Area, after a stint living on a farm in France, then a James Beard Award-winning restaurant critic in NYC. Since 2007 she has been running farmer’s markets in Westchester. In addition to Irvington, she also runs the Hastings, Chappaqua, Bronxville and New York Botanical Gardens Farmer’s Markets. She is the author of “American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America’s Back Roads” (Harper/Collins).

The Hastings Farmers Market is sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and operated by Morning Glory Markets. Based in Hastings-on -Hudson, Morning Glory Markets is a boutique, woman-owned and run, operator of seasonal farmers markets in Bronxville, Chappaqua, Pelham and the New York Botanical Garden, as well as year-round markets in Hastings on Hudson and Irvington, NY. Their markets are carefully curated to provide shoppers with the very best of the Hudson Valley: produce, breads and baked goods, cheese, pastured meats, fresh seafood, grains, pickles, and spirits, too. They believe that, in addition to farmers markets supporting local agriculture and food production, markets should also serve as hubs for their communities, the place to come together for all good things. For more information about Morning Glory Markets, go to morningglorymarkets.com.

Rebecca Gómez
Morning Glory Assistant and on-site manager

Rebecca Gómez enjoyed working local farmers markets as a vendor for many years while her children were young.  She’s been working “on the other side of the table,” as a market manager, for several years. A graduate of Cornell University, Rebecca began her career in children’s book publishing, working as an editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell and Scholastic.  She is the author of over 50 books for children, including the Boo La La series.

Rebecca and her family have lived in New Rochelle for over twenty years. She and her husband, Nelson, are the proud parents four sons, and Rebecca is active in many local volunteer organizations including Hearts and Homes for Refugees.