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May 1, 2004
In the Austin Farmers' Market for this week . .
Vegetables: Summer squash is here, from delicate small yellow crooked neck to slim long zucchini. Bikkurrim just might have some delicate, french green beans this Saturday, and for sure May 8. There is also every imaginable green that grows in Central Texas, lettuces, cabbage, green onions, new potatoes, spring garlic, herbs of all kinds, beets, turnips, kolrabi, microgreens and sprouts. Lollypop Farm is due back, with plants and flowers coming back from a hail storm three weeks ago.
Fruits: Dewberries are in, with blackberries possible May 8th and for sure May 15th. Al and Edna's of Lexington will be bringing in blackberries, blueberries, plums and peaches as each one ripens in season. Al Lang has had lengendary customer followings, we're told, at other markets he goes to during the week. Other farmers, from the Hill Country to the eastward sandy spots, will bring in literally tons of fruit this summer.
Meats: Austin Gourmet Poultry and Gamebirds brings delectible fresh chickens and other birds (he sells out every time--come early!), Thunderheart Bison has lean, natural buffalo, and Arrow K Ranch features longhorn beef. Loncito Cartwright says he has about 100 lambs that have been enjoying his pasture all winter and early spring. He will be ready later in mid-May. Eggs from Alexander Family Farm and Chautauqua Foundation smoked salmon are here too.
Dairy: 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, brownies, granola and much more from more bakers than you can shake a bread stick at: Texas French Bread and Wildwood Art Café (they are still planning on coming, but no date set) offer artisan bread loaves and rolls and cookies; Sticky Toffee Pudding Company features the pudding, among other European-style savories and sweets; new comer Mary Louise Butter's Brownies are definitely Austin; and Glenda's Gourmet Cakes are made from Glenda's family recipe.
Flowers: The beautiful Hill Country flowers of Lost Truffle Farm in Dripping Springs will keep your spirits high, with new flowers coming to us from Lollypop Farm. Expect local farms to also grow flowers this year as well as their vegetables. Arnosky Family Farms are overflowing with obligations on their new 100-acre farm, so they will not be returning this year.
Plants: We've got the plants! Herb Shack is a mainstay for culinary herbs you can grow and we have new growers the Blooming Idiots and Herb Garland. Look for plumerias and cacti from our vendors including Duggerhill Plumerias and Spicewood Spines.
Assorted: Chocolates are coming! Just in time for Mother's Day. Welcome new comers Vegetarian Safari and Taco-Tex with their complete vegetarian offerings made meticulously from fresh ingredients--you can taste it! There are also salmon wraps and salmon pasta salad, carmalized onion tarts, and fresh baked quiches. Fresh squeezed all natural juices and revitalizing coconut milk in the shell, herbal teas, fresh brewed coffee, hibiscus mint tea, cooling chai tea, Aster's Ethiopian wraps and dishes, gift cakes, Oaxacan tamales, frozen traditional tamales, jams and jellies, salsas and honey. What a variety of food to please your taste buds!
Crafts and arts: Paintings, jewelry, metal work, soy candles, cigar box and cloth purses, and clayworks.
Services: NEW CAFÉ AREA by the band, great for people watching; 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 when she is there (ALL her revenues from the made-at-the-market portraits are donated to the Market); and herbalist Ginger Webb and her associates.
Weekly fun: Live local bands play at the Market 10-11:30 (usually); Chefs' Circle Demonstrations with tastings weekly at 10:30 a.m. in the park; More Garden Patch hands-on demonstrations and scheduled speakers and plant clinics 11 a.m. - noon (See one for May 8th); Weekly drawing for Market Card winners announced at 10 a.m. beginning in May; and Kids' Patch activities 10 a.m. - noon as scheduled.
We are a local growers-only market and the farmers only sell what they grow. Satisfy your connection to the food you eat and meet the farmers directly!
The Austin Farmers' Market is a project of Sustainable Food Center (SFC), a 501 (c)(3). The Market is co-sponsored by the City of Austin, City of Austin Parks and Recreation Dept., and the Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Dept. Thanks again to the generous contributions and partnerships with the Austin Museum of Art and Classified Parking (for the farmer truck area gratis), Action Figure, Community Investment Corp., Downtown Austin Alliance and many more major sponsors in the downtown area and in the media (KGSR 107.1FM and KXAN-TV). We invite you to become 'Sustaining Supporters' of SFC to invest in the market so that we can continue to offer this public service in a great public place, promote the farmers and vendors at the market, and cover our operating costs. Find out more at the Information Booth. And for all the 100+ volunteers, some of them coming weekly, Thank You!
posted April 27, 2004 | permanent link to this article
April 24, 2004
In the Austin Farmers' Market for this week . .
Vegetables: Still..yes still asparagus from Bikkurim Farm and Miguel Alverez as well as Zamudio Farm. There is also every imaginable green that grows in Central Texas, lettuces, cabbage, green onions, spring garlic, herbs of all kinds, beets, turnips, kolrabi, microgreens and sprouts. New potatoes from J.C. Taylor and his Garden of Eaten'. You may even see some baby squash from Neagelin Farm, so come by EARLY! Welcome back Gundermann Farm and Cathey (Joan Gundermann's sister) at the downtown market. She is picking the best after damage from hail storms. Lollypop Farm will still be out this week from hail in their parts. Marianne Simmons from Onion Creek Farm will now come in later in the season, just with her certified organic garlic. We'll keep you posted. One more week for the Garza Greens students from Garza High School selling their fresh cut herbs.
Fruits: Still waiting on a possibility of strawberries. Blackberries will be coming in May, followed by peaches and plums a few weeks later.
Meats: Austin Gourmet Poultry and Gamebirds brings delectible fresh birds (he sells out every time--come early!), Thunderheart Bison has lean, natural buffalo, and Arrow K Ranch features longhorn beef but he will be out this week. Loncito Cartwright says he has about 100 lambs that have been enjoying his pasture all winter and early spring. He will be ready later in mid-May. Eggs from Alexander Family Farm and Chautauqua Foundation smoked salmon are here too. Check out eggs at various farmer's stands as well.
Dairy: 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, brownies, granola and much more from more bakers than you can shake a bread stick at: Texas French Bread and Wildwood Art Café (they are still planning on coming, but no date set) offer artisan bread loaves and rolls and cookies; Sticky Toffee Pudding Company features the pudding, among other European-style savories and sweets; new comer Mary Louise Butter's Brownies are definitely Austin; Full Belly Bakery will be coming periodically with wonderful artisan muffins and scones; and Glenda's Gourmet Cakes are made from Glenda's family recipe.
Flowers: The beautiful Hill Country flowers of Lost Truffle Farm in Dripping Springs will keep your spirits high, with new flowers coming to us from Lollypop Farm (out the week of 24th). Expect local farms to also grow flowers this year as well as their vegetables. Arnosky Family Farms are overflowing with obligations on their new 100-acre farm, so they will not be returning this year.
Plants: We've got the plants! Herb Shack is a mainstay for culinary herbs you can grow and we have new growers the Blooming Idiots and Herb Garland. Look for plumerias and cacti from our vendors including Duggerhill Plumerias and Spicewood Spines.
Assorted: Welcome new comers Vegetarian Safari and Taco-Tex with their complete vegetarian offerings made meticulously from fresh ingredients--you can taste it! There are also salmon wraps and salmon pasta salad, carmalized onion tarts, and fresh baked quiches. Fresh squeezed all natural juices and revitalizing coconut milk in the shell, herbal teas, fresh brewed coffee, hibiscus mint tea, cooling chai tea, Ethiopian wraps and dishes, gift cakes, Oaxacan tamales, frozen traditional tamales, jams and jellies, salsas and honey.
Crafts and arts: Paintings, jewelry, metal work, soy candles, cigar box and cloth purses, and clayworks.
Services: NEW CAFÉ AREA by the band, great for people watching; 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 when she is there (ALL her revenues from the made-at-the-market portraits are donated to the Market); and herbalist Ginger Webb and her associates.
Weekly fun: Live local bands play at the Market 10-11:30 (usually); Chefs' Circle Demonstrations with tastings weekly at 10:30 a.m. in the park ; More Garden Patch hands-on demonstrations and scheduled speakers and plant clinics 11 a.m. - noon (as scheduled); Weekly drawing for Market Card winners announced at 10 a.m. beginning in May; and Kids' Patch activities 10 a.m. - noon as scheduled.
We are a local growers-only market and the farmers only sell what they grow. Satisfy your connection to the food you eat and meet the farmers directly!
The Austin Farmers' Market is a project of Sustainable Food Center (SFC), a 501 (c)(3). The Market is co-sponsored by the City of Austin, City of Austin Parks and Recreation Dept., and the Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Dept. Thanks again to the generous contributions and partnerships with the Austin Museum of Art and Classified Parking (for the farmer truck area gratis), Action Figure, Community Investment Corp., Downtown Austin Alliance and many more major sponsors in the downtown area and in the media (KGSR 107.1FM and KXAN-TV). We invite you to become 'Sustaining Supporters' of SFC to invest in the market so that we can continue to offer this public service in a great public place, promote the farmers and vendors at the market, and cover our operating costs. Find out more at the Information Booth. And for all the 100+ volunteers, some of them coming weekly, Thank You!
posted April 20, 2004 | permanent link to this article
April 17, 2004
In the Austin Farmers' Market for this week . .
Vegetables: Still asparagus from Bikkurim Farm and Miguel Alverez. There is also every imaginable green that grows in Central Texas, spinach, lettuces, cabbage, radishes, green onions, spring garlic, herbs of all kinds, beets, turnips, microgreens and sprouts. A little bit of broccoli left. Marianne Simmons from Onion Creek Farm will now begin May 1 because of a farm staff delay. She has one of the prettiest farms in Central Texas and will bringing her organic fresh cut herbs in breath-taking scents and flavors.
Fruits: Still waiting on a possibility of strawberries. Blackberries will be coming in May, followed by peaches and plums a few weeks later.
Meats: Austin Gourmet Poultry and Gamebirds brings delectible fresh birds, Thunderheart Bison has lean, natural buffalo, and Arrow K Ranch features longhorn beef. Loncito Cartwright says he has about 100 lambs that have been enjoying his pasture all winter and early spring. He will be ready later in mid-May. Eggs from Alexander Family Farm and Chautauqua Foundation smoked salmon are here too. Check out eggs at various farmer's stands as well.
Dairy: 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, brownies, granola and much more from more bakers than you can shake a bread stick at: Texas French Bread and Wildwood Art Café (coming in a few weeks) offer artisan bread loaves and rolls and cookies; Sticky Toffee Pudding Company features the pudding, among other European-style savories and sweets; new comer Mary Louise Butter's Brownies are definitely Austin; Full Belly Bakery will be coming periodically with wonderful artisan muffins and scones; and Glenda's Gourmet Cakes are made from Glenda's family recipe.
Flowers: The beautiful Hill Country flowers of Lost Truffle Farm in Dripping Springs will keep your spirits high, with new flowers coming to us from Lollypop Farm. Expect local farms to also grow flowers this year as well as their vegetables. Arnosky Family Farms are overflowing with obligations on their new 100-acre farm, so they will not be returning this year.
Plants: We've got the plants! Herb Shack is a mainstay for culinary herbs you can grow and we have new growers the Blooming Idiots and Herb Garland. Look for plumerias and cacti from our vendors including Duggerhill Plumerias and Spicewood Spines.
Assorted: Welcome the Soup Peddler to the Market! His fabulously popular soups will be sold in 1 quart containers for those who are not so lucky to be on his weekly bike-peddled route (beginning in April / May). Also, salmon wraps and salmon pasta salad, carmalized onion tarts, and fresh baked quiches. Fresh squeezed all natural juices and revitalizing coconut milk in the shell, herbal teas, fresh brewed coffee and hot chocolate, hibiscus mint tea, Ethiopian wraps and dishes, gift cakes, Oaxacan tamales, frozen traditional tamales, jams and jellies, salsas and honey. We now have breakfast tacos (healthful, with great flavor!) from Taco-Tex and Tanzanian food at the Vegetarian Safari booth--try the curried coconut tofu.
Crafts and arts: Paintings, jewelry, metal work, soy candles, cigar box and cloth purses, and clayworks.
Services: NEW CAFÉ AREA by the band, great for people watching; 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 when she is there (ALL her revenues from the made-at-the-market portraits are donated to the Market); and herbalist Ginger Webb and her associates.
Weekly fun: Live local bands play at the Market 10-11:30 (usually); Chefs' Circle Demonstrations with tastings weekly at 10:30 a.m. in the park ; More Garden Patch hands-on demonstrations and scheduled speakers and plant clinics 11 a.m. - noon (starts April 17); Weekly drawing for Market Card winners announced at 10 a.m. beginning in May; and Kids' Patch activities 10 a.m. - noon as scheduled.
We are a local growers-only market and the farmers only sell what they grow. Satisfy your connection to the food you eat and meet the farmers directly!
The Austin Farmers' Market is a project of Sustainable Food Center (SFC), a 501 (c)(3). The Market is co-sponsored by the City of Austin, City of Austin Parks and Recreation Dept., and the Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Dept. Thanks again to the generous contributions and partnerships with the Austin Museum of Art and Classified Parking (for the farmer truck area gratis), Action Figure, Community Investment Corp. and many more major sponsors in the downtown area and in the media (KGSR 107.1FM and KXAN-TV). We invite you to become 'Sustaining Supporters' of SFC to invest in the market so that we can continue to offer this public service in a great public place, promote the farmers and vendors at the market, and cover our operating costs. Find out more at the Information Booth. And for all the 100+ volunteers, some of them coming weekly, Thank You!
posted April 13, 2004 | permanent link to this article
April 10, 2004
In the Austin Farmers' Market for this week . .
Vegetables: A for asparagus; great for Easter Sunday. Get it from Bikkurim Farm and Miguel Alverez. There is also every imaginable green that grows in Central Texas, spinach, lettuces, cabbage, radishes, green onions, spring garlic, herbs of all kinds, beets, turnips, microgreens and sprouts. A little bit of broccoli left. Joan Gundermann's organic vegetables were hit badly with the strong rains this past week, so she will skip this Saturday. Welcome Mr. Gani, who will be bringing some Indian exotic vegetables to market from his garden in Austin. Marianne Simmons from Onion Creek Farm begins April 17 with her organic fresh cut herbs in breath-taking scents and flavors.
Fruits: Strawberries may be out for us, unless a farmer comes through.
Meats: Austin Gourmet Poultry and Gamebirds brings delectible fresh birds, Thunderheart Bison has lean, natural buffalo, and Arrow K Ranch features longhorn beef. Loncito Cartwright says he has about 100 lambs that have been enjoying his pasture all winter and early spring. He will be ready later in mid-May. Eggs from Alexander Family Farm and Chautauqua Foundation smoked salmon are here too. Check out eggs at various farmer's stands as well.
Dairy: 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, brownies, granola and much more from more bakers than you can shake a bread stick at: Texas French Bread and Wildwood Art Café (coming in a few weeks) offer artisan bread loaves and rolls and cookies; Sticky Toffee Pudding Company features the pudding, among other European-style savories and sweets; new comer Mary Louise Butter's Brownies are definitely Austin; Full Belly Bakery will be coming periodically with wonderful artisan muffins and scones; and Glenda's Gourmet Cakes are made from Glenda's family recipe.
Flowers: The beautiful Hill Country flowers of Lost Truffle Farm in Dripping Springs will keep your spirits high, with new flowers coming to us from Lollypop Farm. Expect local farms to also grow flowers this year as well as their vegetables. Arnosky Family Farms are overflowing with obligations on their new 100-acre farm, so they will not be returning this year.
Plants: We've got the plants! Herb Shack is a mainstay for culinary herbs you can grow and we have new growers the Blooming Idiots and Herb Garland. Look for plumerias and cacti from our vendors including Duggerhill Plumerias and Spicewood Spines.
Assorted: Welcome the Soup Peddler to the Market! His fabulously popular soups will be sold in 1 quart containers for those who are not so lucky to be on his weekly bike-peddled route (beginning in April / May). Also, salmon wraps and salmon pasta salad, carmalized onion tarts, and fresh baked quiches. Fresh squeezed all natural juices and revitalizing coconut milk in the shell, herbal teas, fresh brewed coffee and hot chocolate, hibiscus mint tea, Ethiopian wraps and dishes, Oaxacan tamales, frozen traditional tamales, jams and jellies, salsas and honey. Let's welcome Guadalupe of Taco-Tex who will bring on the breakfast tacos!
Crafts and arts: Paintings, jewelry, metal work, soy candles, cigar box and cloth purses, and clayworks.
Services: NEW CAFÉ AREA by the band, great for people watching; 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 when she is there (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 10-11:30 (usually); Chefs' Circle Demonstrations with tastings weekly at 10:30 a.m. in the park (this week it starts at 10 a.m.!); More Garden Patch hands-on demonstrations and scheduled speakers and plant clinics 11 a.m. - noon (starts April 24); Weekly drawing for Market Card winners announced at 10 a.m. beginning in May; and Kids' Patch activities 10 a.m. - noon as scheduled.
We are a local growers-only market and the farmers only sell what they grow. Satisfy your connection to the food you eat and meet the farmers directly!
The Austin Farmers' Market is a project of Sustainable Food Center (SFC), a 501 (c)(3). The Market is co-sponsored by the City of Austin, City of Austin Parks and Recreation Dept., and the Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Dept. Thanks again to the generous contributions and partnerships with the Austin Museum of Art and Classified Parking (for the farmer truck area gratis), Action Figure, Community Investment Corp. and many more major sponsors in the downtown area and in the media (KGSR 107.1FM and KXAN-TV). We invite you to become 'Sustaining Supporters' of SFC to invest in the market so that we can continue to offer this public service in a great public place, promote the farmers and vendors at the market, and cover our operating costs. Find out more at the Information Booth. And for all the 100+ volunteers, some of them coming weekly, Thank You!
posted April 7, 2004 | permanent link to this article
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