Fresh & New
October 4, 2003 Market
Love Your LOCAL Farmer + LOCAL Producer, Too! This Saturday we have a day full of music, a chef's demo, sticker mania on farmers and other vendors, a trivia contest and a kick off of the fall season. Come down to downtown to join us! Beginning just before the 8 a.m. bell we'll have a ceremonious kick off with Mayor Will Wynn and market chair Jennifer Vickers. You're invited and bring your family and friends to show the farmers your support!
7:45 a.m. Mayor Will Wynn and Jennifer Vickers present fall opening
ceremonies with local farmers and local producers
8 a.m. - noon Enjoy the market! Trivia contest all day, prizes on the hour.
Stick a Love Your LOCAL Farmer + LOCAL Producer, Too! sticker
on your favorite vendors and one of them wins a prize too!
Also see Sweet Music and In the Kitchen to find out details for three bands and the cooking demo this Saturday.
Visit Garden Patch in the Park to Create an Instant Garden - The Mulch Bed
9:15- 10 a.m.
Want to try a small garden but don't want to break your back digging up the lawn? Had a garden but lost the battle to bermuda grass taking it over? Want to try but worried about the expense? How about a mulch-bed garden that can go in in an hour or two, costs next to nothing, right on top of your lawn/grass, that foils the bermuda and delights the earth worms? Come and see how it works. Go home with the simple instructions and recipe! This workshop is given by Dick Pierce, an Austin Master Gardener, Master Naturalist, Master Composter, and a landscape designer. He also teaches permaculture classes and is a board member of Sustainable Food Center.
It is still too early for broccolis, carrots and lettuces but you can expect to see mustards, other greens, turnips, sweet potatoes, pears, figs and more that herald in the fall season. The earlier fall that we are in now also means a harvest from a second planting of tomatoes, peppers, squashes and the continuous harvest of okra, eggplant and herbs until the first freeze! Many thousands of recipes can be had at http://www.epicurious.com if you want to find one more way to enjoy okra...squash...eggplant.
This week our family had a great homemade soup that included a mixture of fresh vegetables that you can only find in Central Texas in the early fall (eat your heart out California!). We had a tomato based broth with basil and oregano and the soup contained onions, garlic, okra, mustard greens, zucchini squash, delicata squash, and sweet peppers. A good loaf of bread from one of the bakers at the market, some market-fresh grated hard cheese as a garnish and it was gone in no time. Now if we just had a fresh pasta maker for the noodles...
In the Austin Farmers' Market this week. . .
Vegetables: Swiss chard and mustards are coming in and the second stage of summer squashes like yellow crooked neck and zucchini are plentiful. Look for a few hard squashes like butternut and delicata coming in too. Sweet potatoes and turnips are here and farmers continue to harvest fall tomatoes, eggplant, some fall cucumbers, and peppers (sweet, hot, otherwise). Okra and other fall crops from fifth-generation farmer Glen Bond will be coming. Mr. Zhang has Chinese winter melon, Chinese celery, Chinese squash and cucumbers. Check out the Sunshine Gardens and Oasis Gardens booths for tenderly harvested 'wild greens'. There's also plenty of basil, sprouts, and fresh herbs such as oregano and marjoram. Fresh and light lettuces most likely to make an appearance October 11 from Pure Luck Grade A Dairy, Arnosky Family Farm and many others!
Fruits: Look for figs for sure and pears at the market.
Meats: Austin Gourmet Gamebirds still pending; we'll let you know. Grass-fed long-horn beef, lamb and bison from conscientous ranchers--Arrow K Ranch beef and Thunderheart bison are here this week. Loncito's schedule is: Oct. 11 & 18; Nov. 1, 15, & 22. Eggs are in this week, check out Alexander Family Farm booth this week, the 4th. Smoked salmon from Chautauqua Foundation is here.
Dairy: We welcome Connie Veldhuizen and her family to the Market as the cow milk cheese producer! The Veldhuizen Family Farm makes all natural artisan cheeses including gouda, Texas Swiss, Cheddar, a signature hard cheese, string cheese and yogurt cheese. Also at the Market is Pure Luck Grade A Dairy's national award-winning cheeses of chevre, farmstead, feta, and much more in delectible flavors with enhancements from their own organic certified herbs and vegetables.
Baked Goods: Breads, rolls, cookies, pizzas, brownies, granola and much more from four of Austin's best bakeries, Full Belly Bakery, Sweetish Hill, Texas French Bread, and Wildwood Art Café. Indian Hills Farm that makes organic granola will return most likely October 11. Look at Sticky Toffee Pudding below in assorted prepared foods.
Flowers: Sunflowers, salvia, mealy purple sage, gomphrena, rudbeckia, tuberoses, celosia, mixed bouquets, and zinnias. Lilies, of all things!, are also in bouquets. Look for our two major flower growers, Lost Truffle Farm on the east side and Arnosky Family Farm on the west side.
Plants and trees:Shade trees--time to plant! Hammack Farms has them! Also look for plumerias, cacti, flowering plants, herbs, medicinal, and edible plants from our other vendors.
Assorted: Introducing carmalized onion tarts, fresh baked quiches and English pudding from Sticky Toffee Pudding. Get them before they are all gone from the ready-to-eat section of the Market. Grab a coffee, sit at the market café and you're set! Fresh squeezed all natural juices and revitalizing coconut milk in the shell, herbal teas, fresh bottled rainwater (first in the nation), fresh brewed coffee, hibiscus mint tea, Ethiopian wraps and dishes, gift cakes, Indian snack packs, breakfast tacos, Oaxacan tamales, frozen traditional tamales, jams and jellies, pickles, canned peppers and okra, honey, wheat free and other specialty dog treats.
Crafts and arts: Paintings, jewelry, metal work, blown glass, soy candles, tie-died clothing, cigar box and cloth purses, and pottery.
Services: NEW CAFÉ AREA in the park by prepared food; Massage (ahhhh...); knife and scissor sharpening with valet (leave your knife at Alexander Farm booth and pick it up when you're done shopping); portraits by Isabel Goode-DeBlanc (ALL her revenues from the made-at-the-market portraits are donated to the Market); herbalist; and misting area by the band (courtesy Tank Town Rainwater).
Weekly fun: Live local bands play at the Market 9:30-11 (usually) and in the park; Chefs' Circle Demonstrations with tastings weekly at 10 a.m. in the park; Weekly drawing for Market Card winners at 9:45 a.m. in Chefs' Circle; and take home projects from Kids' Patch activities in the shade 9 - 11 a.m. (during Festival weeks children's activity times are different).
We are a growers-only local growers market and the farmers only sell what they grow. Satisfy your connection to the food you eat and meet the farmers directly!
Support Farmers and Support the Austin Green Festival!
Oct. 11 and 12 at the Austin Convention Center
Sustainable Economy, Ecological Balance, Social Justice
www.greenfestivals.com
Be a part of this two-day not-for-profit event that brings together:
200 Socially and Environmentally Responsible Enterprises * Community Groups * Over 50 Leading Speakers (including market manager Suzanne Santos) * Organic Food Court * Movement and Dance Workshops * Local Music * A Networking Center * and Thousands of attendees who want better consumer alternatives, opportunities to learn, be inspired, get active, and have fun!
The Green Festival is a project of Global Exchange and Co-op America working in collaboration with Sustainable Food Center as a resource partner and a host of committed Austinites. Admission is only $10. Questions? Contact suzanne@sustainablefoodcenter.org The Austin Farmers' Market is a project of Sustainable Food Center, a 501 (c) (3).
An environmentally responsible enterprise that YOU can 'build' is a rock wall or building using the slip form method. Learn how in an all-day workshop with meals set for November in Wimberly. Call Jan and Jon Brieger before reservation deadline Oct. 22 at 830-833-4752, 830-833-2860 or jjbrieger@yahoo.com.
Thanks again to the generous contributions and partnerships with the Austin Museum of Art and Classified Parking (for the farmer truck area gratis), Safe Zone (for reduced street barricade fees), City of Austin and the Parks and Recreation Department (for reduced fees and security) and many more major sponsors in the downtown area and in the media. We also thank the hundreds of individual supporters who have become FOUNDERS of the Austin Farmers' Market to help us with the start up and continuing operating costs. We encourage you to jump on the scale and 'Weigh In' (give your support) and still take advantage of FOUNDERS t-shirts available with your tax-deductible contribution. And for all the 100+ volunteers, some of them coming weekly, Thank You!
posted September 30, 2003 | permanent link to this article
September 27, 2003
Next week, Oct. 4th will be Love Your LOCAL Farmer Day and the kick off of the fall season. Beginning just before the 8 a.m. bell we'll have a ceremonious kick off for the fall season, give our farmers their much deserved appreciation, and start some all day fun. You're invited and bring your family and friends to show the farmers your support!
And have you noticed? Early 'fall' crops in Central Texas don't necessarily mean broccolis, carrots and lettuces (those come in October and November). The earlier fall of September means a harvest from a second planting of tomatoes, peppers, squashes and the continuous harvest of okra, eggplant and herbs. Many thousands of recipes can be had at http://www.epicurious.com
In the Austin Farmers' Market this week. . .
Vegetables: Swiss chard and mustards are coming in and the second stage of summer squashes like yellow crooked neck and zucchini are plentiful. Look for a few hard squashes like butternut coming in too. Sweet potatoes are here from the sandy soils at McCrary farm. More and more farmers are harvesting fall tomatoes, eggplant, some fall cucumbers, and peppers (sweet, hot, otherwise). Okra and other fall crops from fifth-generation farmer Glenn Bond will be coming. Mr. Zhang has Chinese winter melon, Chinese celery, Chinese squash and cucumbers. There's also plenty of basil, sprouts, and fresh herbs such as oregano and marjoram. Fresh and light lettuces may make an appearance this week from Pure Luck Grade A Dairy, but for sure October 4th see a break out of the fall salad greens from Arnosky Family Farm and many others!
Fruits: Look for watermelon and cantaloupes from southern sandy soils and Gundermann farms will return this week (9/27) with figs for sure and pears possibly for the market.
Meats: Austin Gourmet Gamebirds still pending; we'll let you know. Grass-fed long-horn beef, lamb and bison from conscientous ranchers (Arrow K Ranch beef and Thunderheart bison are here this week, but not Loncito's Lamb until October). Eggs are in this week, check out Alexander Family Farm booth this week, the 27th. Smoked salmon from Chautauqua Foundation is back after a busy Austin City Limits Music Festival last week.
Dairy: We welcome Connie Veldhuizen and her family to the Market as the cow milk cheese producer! The Veldhuizen Family Farm makes all natural artisan cheeses including gouda, Texas Swiss, Cheddar, a signature hard cheese, string cheese and yogurt cheese. Also at the Market is Pure Luck Grade A Dairy's national award-winning cheeses of chevre, farmstead, feta, and much more in delectible flavors with enhancements from their own organic certified herbs and vegetables.
Baked Goods: Breads, rolls, cookies, pizzas, brownies, granola and much more from four of Austin's best bakeries, Full Belly Bakery, Sweetish Hill, Texas French Bread, and Wildwood Art Café. Indian Hills Farm that makes organic granola will return in October. An new Indian snack from Joy of Snacks enters the market this week.
Flowers: Sunflowers, salvia, mealy purple sage, gomphrena, rudbeckia, tuberoses, celosia, mixed bouquets, and zinnias. Look for our two major flower growers, Lost Truffle Farm on the east side and Arnosky Family Farm on the west side.
Plants and trees: Pear and Fig trees--they'll go fast! The trees from Matt's Family Orchard will be at the market! Hammack Farms is also returning this week with shade trees ready to plant in this cooler weather! Also look for plumerias, cacti, flowering plants, herbs, medicinal, and edible plants from our other vendors.
Assorted: Something New! Glenda's Gourmet Cakes and the Joy of Snacks flavorful healthy Indian snacks! Fresh squeezed all natural juices and revitalizing coconut milk in the shell, herbal teas, fresh bottled rainwater (first in the nation), fresh brewed coffee, hibiscus mint tea, Ethiopian wraps and dishes, breakfast tacos, Oaxacan tamales, frozen traditional tamales, jams and jellies, pickles, canned peppers and okra, honey, wheat free and other specialty dog treats.
Crafts and arts: Paintings, jewelry, woodwork, metal work, blown glass, soy candles, tie-died clothing, cigar box and cloth purses, and pottery.
Services: NEW CAFÉ SHADED AREA in the park by prepared food; Massage (ahhhh...); knife and scissor sharpening with valet (leave your knife at Alexander Farm booth and pick it up when you're done shopping); portraits by Isabel Goode-DeBlanc (ALL her revenues from the made-at-the-market portraits are donated to the Market); face painting by Sonya (not every week); herbalists; and misting area by the band (courtesy Tank Town Rainwater).
Weekly fun: Live local bands play at the Market 9:30-11 (usually) and in the park; Chefs' Circle Demonstrations with tastings weekly at 10 a.m. in the park; Weekly drawing for Market Card winners at 9:45 a.m. in Chefs' Circle; and take home projects from Kids' Patch activities in the shade 9 - 11 a.m. (during Festival weeks children's activity times are different).
We are a growers-only local growers market and the farmers only sell what they grow. Satisfy your connection to the food you eat and meet the farmers directly!
Support Farmers and Support the Austin Green Festival!
Oct. 11 and 12 at the Austin Convention Center
Sustainable Economy, Ecological Balance, Social Justice
www.greenfestivals.com
Be a part of this two-day not-for-profit event that brings together:
200 Socially and Environmentally Responsible Enterprises * Community Groups * Over 50 Leading Speakers (including market manager Suzanne Santos) * Organic Food Court * Movement and Dance Workshops * Local Music * A Networking Center * and Thousands of attendees who want better consumer alternatives, opportunities to learn, be inspired, get active, and have fun!
The Green Festival is a project of Global Exchange and Co-op America working in collaboration with Sustainable Food Center as a resource partner and a host of committed Austinites. Admission is only $10. Questions? Contact suzanne@sustainablefoodcenter.org The Austin Farmers' Market is a project of Sustainable Food Center, a 501 (c) (3).
An environmentally responsible enterprise that YOU can 'build' is a rock wall or building using the slip form method. Learn how in an all-day workshop with meals set for November in Wimberly. Call Jan and Jon Brieger before reservation deadline Oct. 22 at 830-833-4752, 830-833-2860 or jjbrieger@yahoo.com.
Thanks again to the generous contributions and partnerships with the Austin Museum of Art and Classified Parking (for the farmer truck area gratis), Safe Zone (for reduced street barricade fees), City of Austin and the Parks and Recreation Department (for reduced fees and security) and many more major sponsors in the downtown area and in the media. We also thank the hundreds of individual supporters who have become FOUNDERS of the Austin Farmers' Market to help us with the start up and continuing operating costs. We encourage you to jump on the scale and 'Weigh In' (give your support) and still take advantage of FOUNDERS t-shirts available with your tax-deductible contribution. And for all the 100+ volunteers, some of them coming weekly, Thank You!
posted September 23, 2003 | permanent link to this article
September 20, 2003 Market
Composting, it's the thing you can do for Austin
9:15 a.m. in the Garden Patch in the Park
Learn, see, experience how you can convert forty percent of your waste stream (garbage and lawn waste) into something special for your lawn and plants. It's a wonderful, sweet smelling, chocolate brown, nutritious soil amendment teeming with life and vitality - compost. It's easy, fun, and oooh so good for your soil and plants. It's a way you personally can help Mother Nature add back topsoil and restore our environment. Come and see a compost pile be done in 30 - 40 minutes, get your questions answered, and go home with the simple instruction sheet. It's the right thing to do! And, it's good fun and good exercise.
Presented by Dick Pierce, Sustainable Food Center board member and lifetime gardening educator. Dick is also an Austin Master Gardener, Master Naturalist, Master Composter, instructor on permaculture techniques and a landscape designer.
Support Farmers and Support the Austin Green Festival!
Oct. 11 and 12 at the Austin Convention Center
Sustainable Economy, Ecological Balance, Social Justice
www.greenfestivals.com
Our own market manager, Suzanne Santos, has been tapped to speak at noon on Sunday to talk about how a lot of desire, a purposeful mission, grassroots organizing, and strategic planning turned into the Austin Farmers' Market.
Be a part of this two-day not-for-profit event that brings together:
200 Socially and Environmentally Responsible Enterprises * Community Groups * Over 50 Leading Speakers (including Suzanne Santos) * Organic Food Court * Movement and Dance Workshops * Local Music * A Networking Center * and Thousands of attendees who want better consumer alternatives, opportunities to learn, be inspired, get active, and have fun!
The Green Festival is a project of Global Exchange and Co-op America working in collaboration with Sustainable Food Center as a resource partner and a host of committed Austinites. Admission is only $10.
Volunteer, get a cool t-shirt and get in free. Go to http://www.greenfestivals.com/volunteers.html Be sure to put down 'Sustainable Food Center' as the organization after your name. Questions? Contact suzanne@sustainablefoodcenter.org The Austin Farmers' Market is a project of Sustainable Food Center, a 501 (c) (3).
In the Austin Farmers' Market this week. . .
Vegetables: Some mustards may begin coming in and fall squashes (actually summer squashes like yellow crooked neck in their second season) are plentiful. Look for a few hard squashes like butternut coming in too. Sweet potatoes are here from the sandy soils at McCrary farm. More and more farmers are harvesting fall tomatoes, eggplant, some fall cucumbers, peppers (sweet, hot, otherwise), beginning of swiss chard, Chinese winter melon, Chinese celery, Chinese squash and cucumbers. There's also plenty of basil, sprouts, microgreens, summer greens (at the Sunshine gardener booth), lots of okra, and fresh herbs such as oregano and mint. We welcome back Miguel Alverez of Bikkirum Farm this week with his family's great yields of organic (application pending) produce.
Fruits: There are a few watermelons, some figs, and a few pears from Zamudio Farm! Gundermann farms will return soon but is not yet on a weekly routine for the market.
Meats: Austin Gourmet Gamebirds still had some permit visitors to schedule last week, so we are hopeful they will be there this week (9/20) or next. Grass-fed long-horn beef, lamb and bison from conscientous ranchers (Arrow K Ranch beef and Thunderheart bison are here this week, but not Loncito's Lamb). Eggs are in this week, check out Alexander Family Farm booth this week, the 20th. Smoked salmon from Chautauqua Foundation will be busy at the Austin City Limits Music Festival this week, so come stock up next week (9/27). Check out the great article by Kitty Crider in the Statesman about Joe Kendall's foundation just out this Wednesday.
Dairy: We welcome Connie Veldhuizen and her family to the Market as the cow milk cheese producer! The Veldhuizen Family Farm makes all natural artisan cheeses including gouda, Texas Swiss, Cheddar, a signature hard cheese, string cheese and yogurt cheese. Also at the Market is Pure Luck Grade A Dairy's national award-winning cheeses of chevre, farmstead, feta, and much more in delectible flavors with enhancements from their own organic certified herbs and vegetables.
Baked Goods: Breads, rolls, cookies, pizzas, brownies, granola and much more from four of Austin's best bakeries, Full Belly Bakery, Sweetish Hill, Texas French Bread, and Wildwood Art Café; and Giovanni Biscotti. Indian Hills Farm that makes organic granola will return in October.Full Belly Bakery and Wildwood Art Café; are out this week (9/20).
Flowers: Sunflowers, salvia, mealy purple sage, gomphrena, rudbeckia, tuberoses, celosia, mixed bouquets, and zinnias. Look for our two major flower growers, Lost Truffle Farm on the east side and Arnosky Family Farm on the west side.
Plants and trees: Pear and Fig trees--they'll go fast! The trees from Matt's Family Orchard will come Sept. 27th. Shade trees, Hammack Farms is also returning Sept. 27th, plumerias, cacti, flowering plants, herbs, medicinal, and edible plants.
Assorted: Fresh squeezed all natural juices (Daily Juice with this and coconut milk will be out 9/20), herbal teas, fresh bottled rainwater (first in the nation), fresh brewed coffee, hibiscus mint tea, snow cones (a favorite in this hot weather!) with organic juice, Ethiopian wraps and dishes, breakfast tacos, Oaxacan tamales, frozen traditional tamales, jams and jellies, pickles, canned peppers and okra, honey, wheat free and other specialty dog treats.
Crafts and arts: Paintings, jewelry, wooden hand carved canes, painted furniture, metal work, blown glass, soy candles, tie-died clothing, cigar box and cloth purses, and pottery.
Services: NEW CAFÉ SHADED AREA in the park by prepared food; Massage (ahhhh...); knife and scissor sharpening with valet (leave your knife at Alexander Farm booth and pick it up when you're done shopping); portraits by Isabel Goode-DeBlanc (ALL her revenues from the made-at-the-market portraits are donated to the Market - returning Sept. 20); face painting by Sonya (not every week); herbalists; and misting area by the band (courtesy Tank Town Rainwater).
Weekly fun: Live local bands play at the Market 9:30-11 (usually) and in the park; Chefs' Circle Demonstrations with tastings weekly at 10 a.m. in the park; Weekly drawing for Market Card winners at 9:45 a.m. in Chefs' Circle; and take home projects from Kids' Patch activities in the shade 9 - 11 a.m. (during Festival weeks children's activity times are different).
We are a growers-only local growers market and the farmers only sell what they grow. Satisfy your connection to the food you eat and meet the farmers directly!
Thanks again to the generous contributions and partnerships with the Austin Museum of Art and Classified Parking (for the farmer truck area gratis), Safe Zone (for reduced street barricade fees), City of Austin and the Parks and Recreation Department (for reduced fees and security) and many more major sponsors in the downtown area and in the media. We also thank the hundreds of individual supporters who have become FOUNDERS of the Austin Farmers' Market to help us with the start up and continuing operating costs. We encourage you to jump on the scale and 'Weigh In' (give your support) and still take advantage of FOUNDERS t-shirts available with your tax-deductible contribution. And for all the 100+ volunteers, some of them coming weekly, Thank You!
posted September 17, 2003 | permanent link to this article
September 13, 2003 Market
Pear Festival this weekend, Sept. 13th. Come to participate in the Fastest Pair Pear Race at 9:30 a.m. and look for Market Guides in blue aprons and hats to sign you up on 4th Street. The fun includes passing the pear, hula-hooping it up with pears and a three-legged trot with pears, all done in pairs (teams of two) to see who can have the fastest time to complete all three activities. We will have both children's and adults' divisions. Prizes to the top team of each division. Also for kids will be the Mr. or Ms. Pear Head decorating contest at 10:30 a.m. at the Kids' Patch in the park. Again, sign up early. And, of course, enjoy delicious locally grown pears from Gundermann and Zamudio farms. Come before the games to get the best picks.
Support Farmers and Support the Austin Green Festival!
Oct. 11 and 12 at the Austin Convention Center
Sustainable Economy, Ecological Balance, Social Justice
www.greenfestivals.com
Be a part of this two-day not-for-profit event that brings together:
200 Socially and Environmentally Responsible Enterprises * Community Groups * Over 50 Leading Speakers (including Suzanne Santos, Austin Farmers' Market Market Manager) * Organic Food Court * Movement and Dance Workshops * Local Music * A Networking Center * and Thousands of attendees who want better consumer alternatives, opportunities to learn, be inspired, get active, and have fun!
The Green Festival is a project of Global Exchange and Co-op America working in collaboration with Sustainable Food Center as a resource partner and a host of committed Austinites. Admission is only $10.
Volunteer, get a cool t-shirt and get in free. Sign up by Sept. 15th for best shifts. Go to http://www.greenfestivals.com/volunteers.html Be sure to put down 'Sustainable Food Center' as the organization after your name. Questions? Contact suzanne@sustainablefoodcenter.org The Austin Farmers' Market is a project of Sustainable Food Center, a 501 (c) (3).
Join Dick Pierce for an all important Composting Demonstration next week, Sept. 20, in the Gardener's Corner in the shaded area of the park at 9:15 a.m.
In the Austin Farmers' Market this week. . .
Vegetables: Sweet potatoes have entered the market. More and more farmers are harvesting fall tomatoes, eggplant, some fall cucumbers, peppers (sweet, hot, otherwise), beginning of swiss chard and some mustards, Chinese winter melon, Chinese celery, Chinese squash and cucumbers, new fall lucious zucchini and yellow squash, basil, sprouts, microgreens, summer greens (at the Sunshine gardener booth), lots of okra, and fresh herbs such as basil, oregano and mint.
Fruits: You might see some figs if the trees produce this week, and pears!
Meats: Austin Gourmet Gamebirds will be coming to the market NEXT week (we just received word Friday)! Grass-fed long-horn beef, lamb and bison from conscientous ranchers (Arrow K Ranch beef and Thunderheart bison are here this week, but not Loncito's Lamb until October). Eggs are out this week from Alexander Family Farm until the 20th, but an enterprising gardener will bring in a few dozen Saturday.
Dairy: We welcome Connie Veldhuizen and her family to the Market as the cow milk cheese producer! The Veldhuizen Family Farm makes all natural artisan cheeses including gouda, Texas Swiss, Cheddar, a signature hard cheese and yogurt cheese. Also at the Market is Pure Luck Grade A Dairy's national award-winning cheeses of chevre, farmstead, feta, and much more in delectible flavors with enhancements from their own organic certified herbs and vegetables.
Baked Goods: Breads, rolls, cookies, pizzas, brownies, granola and much more from four of Austin's best bakeries, Full Belly Bakery (back Sept. 13), Sweetish Hill, Texas French Bread, and Wildwood Art Café; and Giovanni Biscotti. Indian Hills Farm that makes organic granola will return in the fall.
Flowers: Sunflowers, salvia, mealy purple sage, gomphrena, rudbeckia, tuberoses, celosia, mixed bouquets, and zinnias. Look for our two major flower growers, Lost Truffle Farm on the east side and Arnosky Family Farm on the west side.
Plants and trees: Pear and Fig trees--they'll go fast! The trees from Matt's Family Orchard will come Sept. 27th. Shade trees from Hammack Farms are also returning Sept. 27th, plumerias, cacti, flowering plants, herbs, medicinal, and edible plants come in weekly.
Assorted: Fresh squeezed all natural juices, herbal teas, fresh bottled rainwater (first in the nation), fresh brewed coffee, hibiscus mint tea, snow cones (a favorite in this hot weather!) with organic juice, Ethiopian wraps and dishes, breakfast tacos, Oaxacan tamales, frozen traditional tamales, smoked salmon, jams and jellies, pickles, canned peppers and okra, honey, wheat free and other specialty dog treats.
Crafts and arts: Paintings, jewelry, wooden hand carved canes, painted furniture, metal work, blown glass, soy candles, tie-died clothing, cigar box and cloth purses, and pottery.
Services: NEW CAFÉ SHADED AREA in the park by prepared food; Massage (ahhhh...); knife and scissor sharpening with valet (leave your knife at Alexander Farm booth and pick it up when you're done shopping); portraits by Isabel Goode-DeBlanc (ALL her revenues from the made-at-the-market portraits are donated to the Market - returning Sept. 13); face painting by Sonya (not every week); herbalists; and misting area by the band (courtesy Tank Town Rainwater).
Weekly fun: Live local bands play at the Market 9:30-11 (usually) and in the park; Chef's Circle Demonstrations with tastings weekly at 10 a.m. in the park; Weekly drawing for Market Card winners at 9:45 a.m. in Chefs' Circle; and take home projects from Kids' Patch activities in the shade 9 - 11 a.m. (during Festival weeks children's activity times are different).
We are a growers-only local growers market and the farmers only sell what they grow. Satisfy your connection to the food you eat and meet the farmers directly!
Thanks again to the generous contributions and partnerships with the Austin Museum of Art and Classified Parking (for the farmer truck area gratis), Safe Zone (for reduced street barricade fees), City of Austin and the Parks and Recreation Department (for reduced fees and security) and many more major sponsors in the downtown area and in the media. We also thank the hundreds of individual supporters who have become FOUNDERS of the Austin Farmers' Market to help us with the start up and continuing operating costs. We encourage you to jump on the scale and 'Weigh In' (give your support) and still take advantage of FOUNDERS t-shirts available with your tax-deductible contribution. And for all the 100+ volunteers, some of them coming weekly, Thank You!
posted September 9, 2003 | permanent link to this article
September 6, 2003 Market
There're changes a coming. More farmers are back and new farmers are coming on in September. Look for poultry to be available next week!
We are highlighting another agricultural pearl this month--the Pear--September 13th. There will be fun activities to join in for the Pear Festival and the lucious pear to capture in early morning hours of the market as this is near the end of the season.
In the Austin Farmers' Market this week. . .
Vegetables: Tomatoes from just a few farmers who are harvesting fall tomatoes, eggplant, some fall cucumbers, Chinese winter melon, Chinese celery, Chinese cucumber and squash, peppers (sweet, hot, otherwise), beginning of swiss chard, new fall lucious zucchini, eight ball and yellow squash, basil, sprouts, microgreens, summer greens, onions, shallots, garlic, lots of okra, winter squash like acorn and butternut, and fresh herbs such as basil, oregano and mint.
Fruits: Very few watermelons, some figs if the trees produce one more week, and pears! Bat Creek Farm returns in October with Pink Ladies. Did you all taste those Galas? Some were just right for kid-sized snacks and so delicious!
Fantastic producing pear and fig trees in a pot will be at the market Sept. 27th for you to take home and start your own fruit production! Easy growers in Central Texas and now is the time to plant.
Meats: Austin Gourmet Gamebirds will be coming to the market next week! Grass-fed long-horn beef, lamb and bison from conscientous ranchers (Arrow K Ranch beef and Thunderheart bison are here this week, but not Loncito's Lamb). Don't forget the eggs too.
Dairy: Pure Luck Grade A Dairy's national award-winning cheeses of chevre, farmstead, feta, and much more in delectible flavors with enhancements from their own organic certified herbs and vegetables.
Baked Goods: Breads, rolls, cookies, pizzas, brownies, granola and much more from four of Austin's best bakeries, Full Belly Bakery (out Sept. 6th), Sweetish Hill, Texas French Bread, and Wildwood Art Café; and Giovanni Biscotti (back this week). Indian Hills Farm that makes organic granola will return in the fall.
Flowers: Sunflowers, salvia, gomphrena, rudbeckia, gladiolas, tuberoses, celosia, mixed bouquets, and zinnias. Lost Truffle Farm returns this week, September 6th. Arnosky Family Farm flowers are also in abundance.
Plants and trees: Shade trees (Hammack Farms is returning in the fall), plumerias, cacti, flowering plants, herbs, medicinal, and edible plants.
Assorted: Fresh squeezed all natural juices, herbal teas, fresh bottled rainwater (first in the nation), fresh brewed coffee, hibiscus mint tea, snow cones (a favorite in this hot weather!) with organic juice, Ethiopian wraps and dishes, breakfast tacos, Oaxacan tamales, frozen traditional tamales, empanadas coming, smoked salmon, jams and jellies, pickles, canned peppers and okra, honey, wheat free and other specialty dog treats.
Crafts and arts: Paintings, jewelry, wooden hand carved canes, painted furniture, Adirondack chairs, metal work, blown glass, soy candles, tie-died clothing, cigar box and cloth purses, and pottery.
Services: NEW CAFÉ SHADED AREA in the park by prepared food; Massage (ahhhh...); knife and scissor sharpening with valet (leave your knife at Alexander Farm booth and pick it up when you're done shopping); portraits by Isabel Goode-DeBlanc (ALL her revenues from the made-at-the-market portraits are donated to the Market - returning Sept. 13); face paiting by Sonya; herbalists; and misting area by the band (courtesy Tank Town Rainwater).
Weekly fun: Live local bands play at the Market 9:30-11 (usually) and in the park; Chef's Circle Demonstrations with tastings weekly at 10 a.m. in the park; Weekly drawing for Market Card winners at 9:45 a.m. in Chefs' Circle; and take home projects from Kids' Patch activities in the shade 9 - 11 a.m. (during Festival weeks children's activity times are different).
We are a growers-only market and the farmers only sell what they grow. Satisfy your connection to the food you eat and meet the farmers directly!
Thanks again to the generous contributions and partnerships with the Austin Museum of Art and Classified Parking (for the farmer truck area gratis), Safe Zone (for reduced street barricade fees), City of Austin and the Parks and Recreation Department (for reduced fees and security) and many more major sponsors in the downtown area and in the media. We also thank the hundreds of individual supporters who have become FOUNDERS of the Austin Farmers' Market to help us with the start up and continuing operating costs. We encourage you to jump on the scale and 'Weigh In' (give your support) and still take advantage of FOUNDERS t-shirts available with your tax-deductible contribution. And for all the 100+ volunteers, some of them coming weekly, Thank You!
posted September 2, 2003 | permanent link to this article
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