Fresh & New
November 1, 2003
Local Farmers and Businesses need you now. The fall weather has been terrific and you'll see by the produce / product list below that the farmers and local small businesses have come through for you. Please come through for them now and visit the Market to get the best food, flowers, hand-made crafts that you could possibly get--direct from the producer. The farmers and vendors will be happier and you'll be healthier and happier too!
Win $250 gift certificate from Zoot! Zoot owner/chefs Mark Paul and Stewart Scruggs are members of the Austin Farmers' Market Chefs Circle and they generously provided a five course tasting dinner for two with wine for the Market Card drawing of November 1! You can turn in your card by 9:30 a.m. this Saturday to be eligible as long as you have 10 stamps on it.
Find out more about the Market Card if you don't have one by talking to the volunteers at the Information Booth. Patricia Todd was the happy winner last week because she won a wonderful gift of lunch for two at ASTI, drawn by Emmett Fox himself at the Market while he did his pumpkin sage soup demonstration.
In the Austin Farmers' Market this week. . .
Vegetables: Every imaginable green that grows in Central Texas-kale, collards, mustards, tatsoi, green beens, spinach, lettuces, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, tomatoes still, peppers, eggplant, radishes, green onions, herbs of all kinds, okra, zucchini and yellow squash, acorn, butternut and delicada sweet squashes, pumpkins, turnips, microgreens and sprouts.
Nuts: PECANS! The new crop is in and look for our first offering from Combs Gardens. More farms to follow.
Fruits: Apples due in from Bat Creek Farm this week. Try out the ol' Pink Ladies. A few persimmons, yes!, from Oasis Gardens.
Meats: Austin Gourmet Gamebirds has arrived with chicken, pheasant, guinea hen and duck. There might also be rabbit this week--come early, as he sold out last week! Arrow K Ranch and their grass-fed long-horn beef and also Thunderheart Bison are mainstays for the market--these are great meats for a good pot of chili. Eggs from Alexander Family Farm are in this week (and the farm is taking turkey orders) and smoked salmon is here.
Dairy: Try the Trumpey cheese from Connie & Stuart Veldhuizen. It's a special innovation from Stuart, the cheese-maker because the cows had a particularly good grazing of oats and that makes the milk sweeter. The Veldhuizen Family Farm makes all natural artisan cow 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 soon. Sticky Toffee Pudding features the pudding, of course, plus other baked tarts and cream puffs. Glenda's Gourmet Cakes are ready for a gift basket.
Flowers: Gads! Glads in November! Yes, it is true. Also 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:Look for plumerias, cacti, flowering plants, herbs, medicinal, and edible plants from our vendors including Duggerhill Plumerias, Spicewood Spines, and Herbs Mint 4 U.
Assorted: We've got some new salmon wraps and pasta salad with a smattering of salmon from Chautauqua Foundation's folks. Peanut brittle made by Cathy Itz at the McCall Creek Farm - check it out with Mark Itz. Carmalized onion tarts, fresh baked quiches and English pudding. Fresh squeezed all natural juices and revitalizing coconut milk in the shell, herbal teas, fresh brewed coffee, hibiscus mint tea, Ethiopian wraps and dishes, gift cakes, Indian snack packs with healthy rice puffs, Oaxacan tamales, frozen traditional tamales, jams and jellies, salsas and honey.
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 beginning November 8 (ALL her revenues from the made-at-the-market portraits are donated to the Market); and herbalist Ginger Webb.
Weekly fun: Live local bands play at the Market 9:30-11 (usually); 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 October 29, 2003 | permanent link to this article
Ocotber 25, 2003 Market
Pumpkin Festival is here October 25! Get yer spittin' skills going and enter the pumpkin seed spitting contest in both children's and adult's divisions at 10:30 a.m. in the park. Also pumpkin decorating for the kids beginning at 9:30 a.m. A pumpkin patch all day in the park and a family of balloon artists will help kids learn how to make their own balloon creations.
Austin Farmers' Market--YOUR Market--has won another award! The Downtown Austin Alliance, the group of downtown business owners and other downtown supporters, has awarded the Austin Farmers' Market, a Project of Sustainable Food Center (a non-profit, by the way), with the 2003 Impact Award for an organization. The market's success of more than 28,000 visits, more than $330,000 in sales to date, and dozens of jobs created and maintained could not have been possible without YOUR support of local farmers and local small food and craft businesses. Thank you! Keep coming back to the market with friends and family and support the farmers and vendors even more.
Check out the arrival of chicken, duck, guinea hen and pheasant! Chuck and Nancy Rogers of Austin Gourmet Gamebirds are ready to bring you locally grown, humanely cared for birds that come from farmland right in Travis County.
The Market Cards Drawings have great prizes these last weeks of the Market. On Saturday, Chef Emmett Fox (who is doing the demo) may draw your name and hand over to you a gift from his restaurant, ASTI! Fill up your market card in these next few weeks by coming to the market and support local farmers and producers to get in on the chance to win! Next week, win $250 gift certificate from Zoot! Zoot owner/chefs Mark Paul and Stewart Scruggs are members of the Austin Farmers' Market Chefs Circle and they generously provided a five course tasting dinner for two with wine for the Market Card drawing.
Get your feet over to Square Foot Gardening in the Park! Find the Big Gardening on a Small Scale - Square Foot Gardening demonstration. From 9:15- 10 a.m. Great for home, school, and even patio gardens. Intensive planting in good soil makes for great harvests, little work, less water, fewer weeds, more fun. Participate in the preparation of a raised bed, lay it out, and do some planting. Then grab the recipe to do it at home. Based on the book, Square Foot Gardening, by Bartholemew. Presented by Dick Pierce, a board member of Sustainable Food Center. He is an advocate and teacher of permaculture and an Austin Master Gardener, Master Naturalist, Master Composter, and a landscape designer.
In the Austin Farmers' Market this week. . .
Vegetables: Pumpkins galore! Snap up your young tender green beans before the season is over! Fall is the special time to get your radishes, lettuce, tomatoes and green onions all at the same time locally in Central Texas direct from the farmers and their fields. Hurry though! as the tomatoes are nearing their end on the plants in this soon to be cooler wheather. Swiss chard and mustards are in. Second stage of summer squashes like yellow crooked neck and zucchini are plentiful. Look for hard squashes like acorn, butternut, and delicada along with small decorative squashes. Turnips are here and farmers continue to harvest fall tomatoes, eggplant, some fall cucumbers, and peppers (sweet, hot, otherwise). Okra continues. Still plenty of basil, sprouts, and fresh herbs.
Nuts: PECANS! The new crop is in and look for our first offering from Combs Gardens. More farms to follow. Why not mix pecans with the still abundant basil and the hard cow cheese to make a fantastic local pesto?
Fruits: Apples due November 1--sweet Pink Ladies from Bat Creek Farm!
Meats: Austin Gourmet Gamebirds is coming this Saturday! Arrow K Ranch and their grass-fed long-horn beef and Thunderheart Bison return this week. Loncito's Lamb is out for the season, but he has some 300 ewes that will have lambs in the spring. Eggs from Alexander Family Farm are in this week and smoked salmon is here.
Dairy: Try the Trumpey cheese from Connie & Stuart Veldhuizen. It's a special innovation from Stuart, the cheese-maker because the cows had a particularly good grazing of oats and that makes the milk sweeter. The Veldhuizen Family Farm makes all natural artisan cow 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 soon. Sticky Toffee Pudding features the pudding, of course, plus other baked tarts and cream puffs. Glenda's Gourmet Cakes are ready for a gift basket.
Flowers: Gads! Glads in October! Yes, it is true. Also 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:Look for plumerias, cacti, flowering plants, herbs, medicinal, and edible plants from our vendors including Duggerhill Plumerias, Spicewood Spines, and Herbs Mint 4 U.
Assorted: Introducing carmalized onion tarts, fresh baked quiches and English pudding from Sticky Toffee Pudding. Fresh squeezed all natural juices and revitalizing coconut milk in the shell, herbal teas, fresh brewed coffee, hibiscus mint tea, Ethiopian wraps and dishes, gift cakes, Indian snack packs with healthy rice puffs created by Joy of Snacks, Oaxacan tamales, frozen traditional tamales, jams and jellies, pickles, canned peppers and okra, honey, wheat free and other specialty dog treats. Check out the Gato Muerto (Dead Cat) tamales of black, orange, black from O'Shucks. Nothing but flavorful masa and black bean and cheese in it--fun for a Halloween party.
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); and herbalist Ginger Webb.
Weekly fun: Live local bands play at the Market 9:30-11 (usually); 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 October 21, 2003 | permanent link to this article
October 18, 2003 Market
Two-year old Marianna Vanderbout learns her pumpkin shopping skills early.
Pumpkin Festival is coming up October 25! There will be an extravaganza of pumpkin activities with prizes, including a pumpkin seed spitting contest in both children's and adult's divisions and pumpkin decorating for the kids. Also, there will be a pumpkin patch in the park and a family of balloon artists. The chef's demonstration for the
Pumpkin Festival will be by Emmett Fox of ASTI and the music will feature Gina Lee. There will also be a square foot gardening demonstration during the festival for people who are itching to get in a small garden for wonderful fall at-home goodies.
Win $250 gift certificate from Zoot! Get your Market Card stamped! Zoot owner/chefs Mark Paul and Stewart Scruggs are members of the Austin Farmers' Market Chefs Circle and they generously provided a five course tasting dinner for two with wine for the Market Card drawing of November 1! Fill up your market card in these next few weeks by coming to the market and support local farmers and producers to get in on the chance to win! More Chefs' Circle restaurant prizes to come for the October and November Market Card drawings!
Visit the Festival de Las Plantas Saturday! This first annual event presented by the Austin Parks Foundation, PODER, Wildflower Center, and the City of Austin will celebrate the relationship of plants and people, as well as the many cultures represented in Austin. 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, Guerrero Colorado River Park (at the Montopolis Sports Complex). See http://www.austinparks.org for more info.
In the Austin Farmers' Market this week. . .
Vegetables: Snap up your young tender green beans before the season is over! Fall is the special time to get your radishes, lettuce, tomatoes and green onions all at the same time locally in Central Texas direct from the farmers and their fields. Hurry though! as the tomatoes are nearing their end on the plants in this soon to be cooler weather. Swiss chard and mustards are in. Second stage of summer squashes like yellow crooked neck and zucchini are plentiful. Look for hard squashes like acorn, butternut, and delicada along with small decorative squashes. Turnips are here and farmers continue to harvest fall tomatoes, eggplant, some fall cucumbers, and peppers (sweet, hot, otherwise). Okra continues. Mr. Zhang has Chinese winter melon, Chinese celery, Chinese squash and cucumbers. Still plenty of basil, sprouts, and fresh herbs such as oregano and marjoram.
Nuts: PECANS! The new crop is in and look for our first offering from Combs Gardens. More farms to follow.
Fruits: Pears may make their last appearance this week. Pink Lady apples due in soon from Bat Creek Farm.
Meats: Austin Gourmet Gamebirds still pending and you may just see him make the deadlines by this Saturday!; we'll let you know. Arrow K Ranch and their grass-fed long-horn beef will be out on a week's vacation (Oct. 18th). Thunderheart Bison returns this week, and we are sorry to say, Loncito's Lamb is out for the season (look next week for a letter from him). Eggs from Alexander Family Farm are in this week and smoked salmon is here.
Dairy: Try the Trumpey cheese from Connie & Stuart Veldhuizen. It's a special innovation from Stuart, the cheese-maker because the cows had a particularly good grazing of oats and that makes the milk sweeter. The Veldhuizen Family Farm makes all natural artisan cow 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. Sticky Toffee Pudding features the pudding, of course, plus other baked tarts and cream puffs. Glenda's Gourmet Cakes are ready for a gift basket.
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 and will be back on the 18th! 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. 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 with healthy rice puffs created by Joy of Snacks, breakfast tacos, Oaxacan tamales, frozen traditional tamales, jams and jellies, pickles, canned peppers and okra, honey, wheat free and other specialty dog treats. Check out the Gato Muerto (Dead Cat) tamales of black, orange, black from O'Shucks. Nothing but flavorful masa and black bean and cheese in it--fun for a Halloween party.
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); and herbalist Ginger Webb.
Weekly fun: Live local bands play at the Market 9:30-11 (usually); 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!
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 October 14, 2003 | permanent link to this article
October 11, 2003 Market
Fall is here! Thank you for coming to the Fall Kick Off and Love Your LOCAL Farmer day! We had a great turn out and people loved giving appreciation to farmers and other producers with stick-on badges; almost a thousand stickers got on vendors and fans alike! Several dozen of you learned new things through the trivia contest and Anne Dietz won the Market Card prize of an overflowing Market basket. Now we continue the season with lots of produce and invite you to experience the Austin Farmers' Market with your family and friends. Mark your calendars for October 25th for the Pumpkin Festival at the Market and to see an outstanding Day of the Dead display by El Interior's Marcia Lucas at the Arnosky Family Farm flower and vegetable stall at the Market!
In the Austin Farmers' Market this week. . .
Vegetables: Young tender green beans have appeared. Swiss chard and mustards are coming in and the second stage of summer squashes like yellow crooked neck and zucchini are plentiful. Look for hard squashes like acorn, butternut, and delicada along with small decorative squashes. Turnips are here and farmers continue to harvest fall tomatoes, eggplant, some fall cucumbers, and peppers (sweet, hot, otherwise). Get a load of the red sweet peppers at Lost Truffle Farm. Okra continues. 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 18th from Pure Luck Grade A Dairy, Arnosky Family Farm and many others!
Nuts: PECANS! The new crop is in and look for our first offering from Combs Gardens. More farms to follow.
Fruits: Look for figs for sure and lucious pears at the market.
Meats: Austin Gourmet Gamebirds still pending and you may just see him make the deadlines by this Saturday!; 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, along with Loncito's Lamb. Eggs are in this week and smoked salmon 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 in October. Sticky Toffee Pudding features the pudding, of course, plus other baked tarts and cream puffs. Glenda's Gourmet Cakes are ready for a gift basket.
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 and will be back on the 18th! 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. 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. Check out the Gato Muerto (Dead Cat) tamales of black, orange, black from O'Shucks. Nothing but flavorful masa and black bean and cheese in it--fun for a Halloween Party.
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); 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.
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 October 7, 2003 | permanent link to this article
){kind=link}