AWENDAW — A family known for a celebrated Mount Pleasant restaurant that closed in 2014 is behind a new farmers market selling seasonings, prepared foods and produce.

De Gullah Farmers Market , which launched in August, is curated by Charlotte and Kesha Jenkins . The mother-daughter chefs and business owners are best known in the Charleston area for Gullah Cuisine, a restaurant Charlotte opened with her husband Frank in the mid-1990s.

Up until its closure in 2014, Gullah Cuisine served collards, okra soup and other Gullah-Geechee recipes that honored the family’s heritage as descendants of enslaved Africans who lived along the coastal Sea Islands of the Southeastern U.S.

The monthly farmers market, which returns to Awendaw in October, carries on those traditions, doing so through p

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