Fresh & New
What's coming February
In the Austin Farmers' Market coming back February 5
Vegetables: Carrots, broccoli, greens of all kinds, tomatoes, cauliflower, cabbage, Chinese cabbage, lettuce, beets, kohlrabi, turnips, fresh herbs, spinach, radish.
Fruits: Strawberries coming in March!
Meats: Thunderheart Bison has lean, natural buffalo, and expect a new beef vendor the second week in February. We also will welcome later in March a new poultry farmer and a family raising goats and lamb. Eggs you'll find from various farms who have some yard chickens, like Bikkirum, Ottmers, Harvest Time, Kaune Line, etc. when they are at market. PLEASE BRING CLEAN CARDBOARD EGG CARTONS TO THE MARKET; these can be reused by the smaller 'yard' egg farmers. Bring them to the information booth at the market.
Chautauqua Foundation smoked salmon is a cool way to get wonderful smoked salmon and benefit a great cause.
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.
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; and Mary Louise Butter's Brownies are definitely Austin. We will be introducing kolaches and a wheat-free alternative baker as well.
Flowers: Flowers from the Hill Country are the featured items for the Arnosky Family Farm's Pamela and Frank Arnosky. Buy from them weekly to add the extra lift to your lifestyle of beauty and bounty around good food, good company, and good surroundings. Get your specialty spring flowers, and especially remember to BUY LOCAL FLOWERS FOR VALENTINE's DAY!
Plants: The Blooming Idiots will be back in warmer weather, bringing in the plants that your grandmother loved and cared for. They won an award from the Austin Chronicle Best of 2004 Critics'Choice for their plant selection. Herb Shack will be back in March. Farmers have vegetable transplants.
Assorted: The original Kakawa Chocolates are here. We've got Oaxacan Tamaleo, Texas Coffee Traders fresh brewed coffee, Aster's Ethiopian wraps and dishes, Sticky Toffee Pudding quiches, preserves and salsas from Harvest Time and Cactus Lace, and honey. Please visit Oaxacan Tamaleo's restaurant during January and other times of course, at 1300 W. Anderson Lane, 289-9262. Taco Shack will be back soon. Paw Bakery remembers your four-footed friend.
Crafts and arts: Will Heron specially designed t-shirts, soaps, paintings, hand died/spun wool, jewelry, soy candles, cigar box and cloth purses, exquisite wreaths, knitted items, wooden bowls, wood furniture and clayworks.
Services: CAFÉ AREA by the band, great for people watching and music aficionados; Massage (ahhhh...); portraits by Isabel Goode-DeBlanc is a good memento; and herbalist Ginger Webb and her associates.
We are a local growers-only market featuring more Central Texas farmers than ever who only sell what they grow (from within a 150-mile radius). Satisfy your connection to the food you eat and meet the farmers directly!
posted January 4, 2005 | permanent link to this article
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