"If they [Urban Harvest] hadn't been on the farming movement, we wouldn't have all of these farmers," Shepherd says. "It would have been like still back in the day when we had to go out and search for our farms and hope that we could find somebody that could work with us. But now they have brought it to the forefront and you start to see all of these small farmers that we didn't ever have before, and start producing products for restaurants and home-users alike. They have grown and grown the market share for us so dramatically as far as chefs go to have these products we wouldn't have had years before."

Executive director of Urban Harvest, Sandra Wicoff, wants people to know that Urban Harvest encompasses more than just a farmers market and that this is a fundraiser for the non-profit as a whole.

"We just want to let people know what it is benefiting -- we have this fabulous youth education program and gardening education classes for adults and we've got a huge connection of community gardens that we offer support for," Wicoff says. "Everything we do is to encourage people to grow food and eat local food; we encourage community, good nutrition and sustainability."

In the past year, Urban Harvest has provided hands-on gardening/nutrition education to more than 3,600 students and supported more than 30 youth affiliate gardens. For the Houston community gardens, the non-profit has served 105 affiliate gardens and added 15 more in this year; 24 of these gardens donated more than 60,000 pounds of food to food banks, homeless shelters and food pantries in the city. Urban Harvest also taught more than 1,500 people about organic gardening and offered nearly 100 classes on various gardening subjects. And that's just a glimpse at the organization's involvement this year in the Houston community outside of its weekly farmers markets.

Both the Saturday and City Hall markets provide a venue for 90 small businesses, and 40 of those are local farms.

"We are hoping to have a great turnout, maybe 180 people or so, maybe a little more," Horne says. "Really it gives our farmers a chance to interact with new restaurants and chefs, so I think from the indirect part, not only are the farmers benefiting because we're buying all of the produce from them for the dinner for all of these people, but we are also hoping to make new connections with some of these restaurateurs."