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May 29, 2004
In the Austin Farmers' Market for this week . .
Vegetables: Now we are into the red tomatoes!! A wonderful preview to the Tomato Festival at the Market June 5th. Getting more green beans in this week, green squash, yellow squash and still greens themselves! Still have chard, mustards, mizuna, spinach, a little lettuce, cabbage, green onions, spring garlic, herbs of all kinds, beets, turnips, kolrabi, microgreens and sprouts. New potatoes abound. Still have some farms out recovering from the flooding rains from May 1 and May 8. New farmers with squash, tomatoes, and root crops arriving this week from such parts as Kurten and Driftwood.
Fruits: Clickety Clackberry, have we got the BERRIES! Blueberries and blackberries and throw in bushels and bushels of peaches too. More than five farmers with peaches are here this week, two or more farmers have blackberries. Al Lang comes with his delectible blueberries and other fruit. Indian Hills comes with a small amount of organic peaches.
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. Loncito Cartwright and his Loncito's Lamb COMES BACK THIS WEEK. He will return June 12th, skipping every other week. Eggs provided from pastured chickens from Alexander Family Farm and Chautauqua Foundation smoked salmon are here too. Check out our new educational signs for the animal husbandry practices at each stall that applies.
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 offers 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 accompaniment from Lollypop Farm (when they come back) and McCall Creek Farms.
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. Look for plumerias and cacti from our vendors including Duggerhill Plumerias and Spicewood Spines.
Assorted: 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, vegetarian curries, vegetables in crepes, jams and jellies, salsas and honey.
Crafts and arts: Paintings, jewelry, metal work, soy candles, cigar box and cloth purses, Wood furniture and clayworks. Check out the very comfortable wood furniture by David Rocca!
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; Weekly drawing for Market Card winners beginning in May; and Kids' Patch activities as scheduled at the monthly festivals.
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. Just $10 a month! Find out more at the Information Booth. And for all the 100+ volunteers, some of them coming weekly, Thank You!
posted May 25, 2004 | permanent link to this article
May 22, 2004
In the Austin Farmers' Market for this week . .
Vegetables: TOMATOES! About 500 pounds from the Bryan area from Gendron Tomato Farm. Getting more green beans in this week, green tomatoes (may be a trickle of reds--come early), green squash, yellow squash and still greens themselves! Still have chard, mustards, mizuna, spinach, a little lettuce, cabbage, green onions, spring garlic, herbs of all kinds, beets, turnips, kolrabi, microgreens and sprouts. New potatoes abound. Well, Gundermann Farm still not back yet. Lollypop Farm was five feet under water in some places last week; look for Lolly in a week or two. New farmers with squash, tomatoes, and root crops arriving this week from such parts as Bryan, Kurten, Wimberly and Driftwood.
Fruits: Clickety Clackberry, have we got the BERRIES! Blueberries and blackberries and throw in bushels and bushels of peaches too. More than five farmers with peaches are here this week, two or more farmers have blackberries and dewberries. Al Lang comes with his delectible blueberries.
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. Loncito Cartwright and his Loncito's Lamb made a welcome return to the Market May 15th. He will return May 29th. Eggs provided from pastured chickens from Alexander Family Farm and Chautauqua Foundation smoked salmon are here too. Check out our new educational signs for the animal husbandry practices at each stall that applies.
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 offers 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.
Chocolate: Where else could we put this but in its on category? Lila Brown is delayed in coming May 15th, but plans on some "out of the box" chocolates that will help educate buyers on the trivia and history of cowgirls in Western motif shapes! Get ready for the taste to expand your mind too!
Flowers: The beautiful Hill Country flowers of Lost Truffle Farm in Dripping Springs will keep your spirits high, with accompaniment from Lollypop Farm and McCall Creek Farms.
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: 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, vegetarian curries, jams and jellies, salsas and honey.
Crafts and arts: Paintings, jewelry, metal work, soy candles, cigar box and cloth purses, Wood furniture and clayworks. Check out the very comfortable wood furniture by David Rocha!
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; Weekly drawing for Market Card winners beginning in May; and Kids' Patch activities as scheduled at the monthly festivals.
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 May 18, 2004 | permanent link to this article
May 15, 2004
Elizabeth McIntosh from Lost Truffle Farm.
In the Austin Farmers' Market for this week . .
Vegetables: Getting loads of green beans in this week, green tomatoes (may be a smattering of reds, due to go early), green squash and still greens themselves! Still have chard, mustards, mizuna, spinach, lettuces, cabbage, green onions, spring garlic, herbs of all kinds, beets, turnips, kolrabi, microgreens and sprouts. Bikkurim Farm still holding out with asparagus! New potatoes abound. Well, Gundermann Farm is out due to family time conflicts. Lollypop Farm will return, coming back from a hail storm.
Fruits: Yum! Peaches and blackberries! Southern climes have theseNOW, and the Fredericksburg and other Hill Country orchards will be coming in with their peaches. Also nectarines from Taylor's Garden of Eaten'.
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. Loncito Cartwright says he has about 100 lambs that have been enjoying his pasture all winter and early spring. He will be ready May 15th and be coming every other week--so get with him this day. Eggs provided from pastured chickens from Alexander Family Farm and Chautauqua Foundation smoked salmon are here too. Check out our new educational signs for the animal husbandry practices at each stall that applies.
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 offers 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.
Chocolate: Where else could we put this but in its on category? Lila Brown is delayed in coming May 15th, but plans on some "out of the box" chocolates that will help educate buyers on the trivia and history of cowgirls in Western motif shapes! Get ready for the taste to expand your mind too!
Flowers: The beautiful Hill Country flowers of Lost Truffle Farm in Dripping Springs will keep your spirits high, with accompaniment from Lollypop Farm and McCall Creek Farms.
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: 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, vegetarian curries, jams and jellies, salsas and honey.
Crafts and arts: Paintings, jewelry, metal work, soy candles, cigar box and cloth purses, Wood furniture 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; 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 May 11, 2004 | permanent link to this article
May 8, 2004
In the Austin Farmers' Market for this week . .
Flowers: The beautiful Hill Country flowers of Lost Truffle Farm in Dripping Springs are perfect right now for a special locally grown bouquet for Mother's Day!
Vegetables: Getting some tender green beans in this week, and the early Summer squashes, green and yellow. Still have chard, mustards, mizuna, spinach, lettuces, cabbage, green onions, spring garlic, herbs of all kinds, beets, turnips, kolrabi, microgreens and sprouts. Maybe the last week for asparagus! New potatoes from Garden of Eaten' and Neagelin Farm. Welcome back Gundermann Farm and Cathey (Joan Gundermann's sister) at the downtown market! Look for the booth in a new spot. Lollypop Farm will be back May 15th, with plants and flowers coming back from a hail storm four weeks ago.
Fruits: Yum! Peaches and blackberries are in! Southern climes have these NOW and the Fredericksburg and other Hill Country orchards will be coming in with their peaches May 15th and the 22nd as long as it continues to shine! 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 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 May 15th and be coming every other week after that; get it when you can. Eggs provided from pastured chickens 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; 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.
Chocolate: Where else could we put this but in its own category? Lila Brown will be coming May 15th with some "out of the box" chocolates that will help educate buyers on the trivia and history of cowgirls in Western motif shapes! Get ready for the taste to expand your mind too!
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, Aster's 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 (See one for this week); 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 May 4, 2004 | permanent link to this article
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