Fresh & New
August 27, 2005
Sammy Reese grows watermelon as a specialty on his farm that's been in his family for three generations.
In the Austin Farmers' Market....
SATURDAYS
Welcome back and also a hello/howdy to these folks, coming 8/27: NEW!: Jeremy and Alison Barnwell bring in their FRESH chicken and cornish hens for the first time this week, Sammy Reese of Reese Farm brings his signature watermelons and so does Thomas Combs of Combs Gardens. RETURNING: Bikkurim Farm with their great array of vegetables; Chautauqua Smoked Salmon; and Bowl Designs.
Not Here 8/27: Tecolote Farm (until they get their truck fixed and a higher production); Neagelin Farm (they're out planting 160 acres for the fall); The Herb Shack (out til 9/17); Taylor Farm (he's only selling on Thursdays now); Indian Hills and Hersh are gone to Alaska and will be back in October; La Salle Shrimp waiting for the water to cool; and Annie Taylor of Annie's Omnium is getting ready for her wedding! She'll be back after several weeks. Paw Bakery is out until late September.
WEDNESDAYS--NOW GOING UNTIL FALL--KEEP COMING!
Expect this week to see, Oasis Gardens' organic produce with sustainably grown vegetables like Ottmer's Family Farm and Bikkurim Farm and two prolific gardeners with all sorts of specialty peppers. The Monkey's Lunchbox bakery is out this week.
NOW IN SEASON
Vegetables: Tomatoes are still coming, but in less volume than before --just a few sustainably grown. Come early in the market for these. Also this season are all kinds of summer peas, eggplant, okra, peppers, yellow and zucchini squash, yellow squash blossoms, butternut and acorn squash, dry onions, and fresh herbs, including lots of basil.
Fruits: OUTSTANDING WATERMELONS from Reese Farm, Combs Gardens and Bikkurim Farm. New late FIGS, seasonal PEARS and APPLES!. Peaches from Caskey Orchards. Gala apples are coming from Bat Creek Farm in Bertram; with the most honest-to-goodness best-tasting apple cider you've ever had in your life--come try it!
Meats: FRESH CHICKEN now offered at the Market! Fresh, never frozen chicken is coming from right in Travis County from Barnison Farm in all types of cuts, along with the whole frozen chickens from Providence Hill Farm. Bison, beef, pork, sausage, bacon, emu meat and oil products and eggs. Smoked salmon. Thunderheart bison is only one of two producers in the U.S. that conduct field harvests with respect. Bison health benefits include more omega 3 than salmon and great levels of beta carotene.
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.
Dairy: READY, SET, GOat CHEESE! "Maid" in the Shade Farm--get your goat cheese fix! Also now featuring West Wind Goat Dairy too! Raw cow milk cheeses from Veldhuizen Family Farm.
Baked Goods: Breads, sticky toffee pudding, johnnycakes, scones, rolls, cookies, brownies, granola, and kolaches.
Flowers: Flowers from Arnosky Family Farm in the Texas Hill Country. Get really long-lasting summer flowers, locally grown. Great sunflowers right now!
Plants: Vegetable starts, trees, ferns, cacti, ornamentals, and herbs.
Assorted: Gazpacho, pestos, chocolate, and preserves.
Ready-to-Eat: Savory and sweet EMPANADAS continues this week from the Monkey's Lunchbox on Saturdays! Tamales, savory kolaches, quiches, Ethiopian food, and coffee. LOTS of rehydrating drinks, including: fruitful waters (low-sugar at Southside Kolaches), cucumber lemonade (Bikkurim Farm), varying frescas (Blackland Prairie Farm) and hibiscus tea (Nile Valley Herbs). Water sold at the Information Booth.
Crafts and arts: Specially designed t-shirts, soaps, paintings, hand died/spun wool, woven shawls & socks, jewelry, soy candles, cloth purses, aprons, yoga mat holders, painted baskets and boxes, potholders, and clayworks.
Services: CAFÉ AREA by the band, great for people watching and music aficionados; and massage (ahhhh...) under the trees in the park.
We are a local growers-only market featuring more Central Texas farmers than ever who only sell what they grow. Satisfy your connection to the food you eat and meet the farmers directly!
posted August 24, 2005 | permanent link to this article
August 20, 2005 - Some Like it Hot Festival
Craig Hansen has great garlic to go with your basil for home-made pesto.
In the Austin Farmers' Market....
SATURDAYS
Welcome back and also a hello/howdy to these folks, coming 8/20: NEW!: Sammy Reese of Reese Farm brings his signature watermelons and some peas in the shell. RETURNING: Flowers and Frank Arnosky will be back for Arnosky Family Farms; Made in the Shade goat cheese; Pecan Springs Farm will be in this week with their garlic; Chautauqua Smoked Salmon; Creatlery; Central Texas Fiber Arts group; Will Heron and his t-shirts; and Paw Bakery.
Not Here 8/20: Bikkurim Farm (they are in Arkansas for a graduation ceremony for son Miguel Jr.); Tecolote Farm (until they get their truck fixed and a higher production); Neagelin Farm (they're out planting 160 acres for the fall); Taylor Farm (he's only selling on Thursdays now); Indian Hills and Hersh are gone to Alaska and will be back in October; La Salle Shrimp waiting for the water to cool; and Annie Taylor of Annie's Omnium is getting ready for her wedding! She'll be back after several weeks.
WEDNESDAYS--NOW GOING UNTIL FALL--KEEP COMING!
Expect this week to see, Tecolote Farm with loads of organic peppers and basil, and Oasis Gardens' organic produce with sustainably grown vegetables like Ottmer's Family Farm and Bikkurim Farm (variety, including watermelon). The Monkey's Lunchbox introduces savory and sweet empanadas this week along with their breads, and see Texas Coffee Traders for a cool drink, as well as a few crafts.
NOW IN SEASON
Vegetables: Tomatoes are still coming, but in less volume than before --All varieties, lots of heirlooms and lots of organic or sustainably grown. Come early in the market for these. Also this season are all kinds of summer peas, eggplant, new potatoes (going out of season), peppers, yellow and zucchini squash, yellow squash blossoms, butternut and acorn squash, dry onions, and fresh herbs, including lots of basil.
Fruits: OUTSTANDING WATERMELONS from Reese Farm and Bikkurim Farm. New late FIGS, seasonal PEARS and APPLES!. Peaches from Caskey Orchards. Gala apples are coming from Bat Creek Farm in Bertram; with the most honest-to-goodness best-tasting apple cider you've ever had in your life--come try it!
Meats: CHICKEN now offered at the Market! Bison, beef, pork, sausage, bacon, emu meat and oil products and eggs. Smoked salmon. Thunderheart bison is only one of two producers in the U.S. that conduct field harvests with respect. Bison health benefits include more omega 3 than salmon and great levels of beta carotene.
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.
Dairy: READY, SET, GOat CHEESE! "Maid" in the Shade Farm--get your goat cheese fix! Also now featuring West Wind Goat Dairy too! Raw cow milk cheeses from Veldhuizen Family Farm.
Baked Goods: Breads, sticky toffee pudding, johnnycakes, scones, rolls, cookies, brownies, granola, and kolaches.
Flowers: Flowers from Arnosky Family Farm in the Texas Hill Country. Get really long-lasting summer flowers, locally grown. Great sunflowers right now!
Plants: Vegetable starts, trees, ferns, cacti, ornamentals, and herbs.
Assorted: Gazpacho, pestos, chocolate, preserves, dog and cat treats and honey.
Ready-to-Eat: Savory and sweet EMPANADAS start this week from the Monkey's Lunchbox! Tamales, savory kolaches, quiches, Ethiopian food, and coffee. LOTS of rehydrating drinks, including: fruitful waters (low-sugar at Southside Kolaches), cucumber lemonade (Bikkurim Farm), varying frescas (Blackland Prairie Farm) and hibiscus tea (Nile Valley Herbs). Water sold at the Information Booth.
Crafts and arts: Specially designed t-shirts, dog and cat fashionwear, soaps, paintings, hand died/spun wool, woven shawls & socks, jewelry, soy candles, cloth purses, aprons, yoga mat holders, painted baskets and boxes, potholders, and clayworks.
Services: CAFÉ AREA by the band, great for people watching and music aficionados; and massage (ahhhh...) under the trees in the park.
We are a local growers-only market featuring more Central Texas farmers than ever who only sell what they grow. Satisfy your connection to the food you eat and meet the farmers directly!
posted August 16, 2005 | permanent link to this article
August 13, 2005 - It's a Farmer's Week!
Get your fresh produce and smiles from friendly farmers..
In the Austin Farmers' Market....
SATURDAYS
Welcome back and also a hello/howdy to these folks, coming 8/13: NEW!: Austin Ready Made with delicous pestos, and Mike and Sandra Embry from Providence Farm with chicken and pork and their entire family made a big hit last week, so let's still treat them with the welcoming mat. Coming soon, maybe by next week, will be Barnison Farms from Travis County that will bring FRESH CORNISH HENS. Kim McBride of Bat Creek Farm got a welcoming yahoo and great crowds for his Gala apples last week too, so keep coming! Pears will return with Bee Creek in two weeks, though other farmers have been harvesting them. RETURNING: Made in the Shade goat cheese; Pecan Springs Farm will be in this week with their garlic and ready to plant fig trees; Tom Pedersen returns with his ever popular Kakawa Chocolates--come back for your fix; Medical Arts Accupuncture returns this week for your focused remedies. Creatlery, Southside Kolaches and Will Heron's T-Shirts all return this week.
Not Here 8/13: Taylor Farm (he's only selling on Thursdays now); Tecolote Farm is still out for a brief vacation, and Annie Taylor of Annie's Omnium is getting ready for her wedding! She'll be back after several weeks.
WEDNESDAYS--NOW GOING UNTIL FALL--KEEP COMING!
Expect this week to see, Oasis Gardens with organic heirloom vegetables and basil, others with sustainably grown vegetables like Ottmer's Family Farm and Bikkurim Farm (variety, including watermelon); and conventional Naegelin Farm (variety, including pears).The Monkey's Lunchbox is there this week, and see Texas Coffee Traders for a cool drink, as well as a few crafts.
NOW IN SEASON
Vegetables: Tomatoes are still coming, but in less volume than before --All varieties, lots of heirlooms and lots of organic or sustainably grown. Come early in the market for these. Also this season are all kinds of summer peas, eggplant, new potatoes (going out of season), peppers, yellow and zucchini squash, yellow squash blossoms, butternut and acorn squash, dry onions, and fresh herbs, including lots of basil.
Fruits: OUTSTANDING WATERMELONS, new late FIGS, PEARS and APPLES!. Peaches from Caskey Orchards. Gala apples are coming from Bat Creek Farm in Bertram; with the most honest-to-goodness best-tasting apple cider you've ever had in your life--come try it!
Meats: CHICKEN now offered at the Market! Bison, beef, pork, sausage, bacon, emu meat and oil products and eggs. Smoked salmon. Thunderheart bison is only one of two producers in the U.S. that conduct field harvests with respect. Bison health benefits include more omega 3 than salmon and great levels of beta carotene.
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.
Dairy: READY, SET, GOat CHEESE! "Maid" in the Shade Farm--get your goat cheese fix! Also now featuring West Wind Goat Dairy too! Raw cow milk cheeses from Veldhuizen Family Farm.
Baked Goods: Breads, sticky toffee pudding, johnnycakes, scones, rolls, cookies, brownies, granola, and kolaches.
Flowers: Flowers from Arnosky Family Farm in the Texas Hill Country. Get really long-lasting summer flowers, locally grown. Great sunflowers right now!
Plants: Vegetable starts, trees, ferns, cacti, ornamentals, and herbs.
Assorted: Gazpacho, pestos, chocolate, preserves, dog and cat treats and honey.
Ready-to-Eat: Tamales, savory kolaches, quiches, Ethiopian food, and coffee. LOTS of rehydrating drinks, including: fruitful waters (low-sugar at Southside Kolaches), cucumber lemonade (Bikkurim Farm), varying frescas (Blackland Prairie Farm) and hibiscus tea (Nile Valley Herbs). Empanadas are in the works from the Monkey's Lunchbox. Water sold at the Information Booth.
Crafts and arts: Specially designed t-shirts, dog and cat fashionwear, soaps, paintings, hand died/spun wool, woven shawls & socks, jewelry, soy candles, cloth purses, aprons, yoga mat holders, painted baskets and boxes, potholders, and clayworks.
Services: CAFÉ AREA by the band, great for people watching and music aficionados; and massage (ahhhh...) under the trees in the park. Medical Arts Accupuncture coming again 8/13.
We are a local growers-only market featuring more Central Texas farmers than ever who only sell what they grow. Satisfy your connection to the food you eat and meet the farmers directly!
posted August 10, 2005 | permanent link to this article
August 6, 2005
Basil abounds in the market from several farmers to make your favorite pesto. Check out Austin's Ready Made -- which includes gourmet pestos that you can eat right away!.
In the Austin Farmers' Market....
SATURDAYS
Welcome back and also a hello/howdy to these folks, coming 8/6: NEW!: Austin Ready Made with Julie Williams, who specializes in pestos for the Market-try the basil pesto, sweet red pepper, mushroom--heck--try them all! Also welcoming for the first time the Providence Hill Farm with the Embry family from Kemp. They bring to us CHICKEN AND PORK. Coming soon, maybe by next week, will be Barnison Farms from Travis County that will bring FRESH CORNISH HENS. Get ready to fill your plates! We haven't heard yet, but this could also be the week of the return of the season for Bat Creek Farm with APPLES, and Bee Creek Farm with PEARS.
Not Here 8/6: Taylor Farm (he's only selling on Thursdays now); Kakawa Chocolates (he's gone fishing and will be back by August 13th); Creatlery (one of their sons is in soccer finals!); Lori from Southside Kolaches; Will Heron and his sooo popular t-shirts. Tecolote Farm is out for a brief vacation, and Annie Taylor of Annie's Omnium will be out getting ready for her wedding! She'll be back after several weeks. Medical Arts Accupuncture will come back August 13th. Hersh Kendall from certified organic Indian Hills Farm will be out until the fall. Three peach orchards are done for the season in peaches, Davis, Psencik and Bee Creek. We still have peaches from Caskey Orchards, though.
WEDNESDAYS--NOW GOING UNTIL FALL--KEEP COMING!
Expect this week to see, Oasis Gardens with organic heirloom tomatoes and more with sustainably growing Ottmer's Family Farm and Bikkurim Farm (variety, including watermelon); and conventional Naegelin Farm (variety, including cantaloupe).The Monkey's Lunchbox is there this week, and see Texas Coffee Traders for a cool drink, as well as a few crafts.
NOW IN SEASON
Vegetables: Tomatoes are still coming, but in less volume than before --All varieties, lots of heirlooms and lots of organic or sustainably grown. Also this season are all kinds of summer peas, eggplant, new potatoes, peppers, yellow and zucchini squash, yellow squash blossoms, butternut and acorn squash, dry onions, and fresh herbs, including lots of basil.
Fruits: OUTSTANDING WATERMELONS AND CANTALOUPE. PEACHES, PEACHES, PEACHES from Caskey Orchards. Apples will be coming from Bat Creek Farm hopefully by this week! Pears will be due from Bee Creek too.
Meats: CHICKEN now offered at the Market! Bison, beef, pork, sausage, bacon, emu meat and oil products and eggs. Smoked salmon. Thunderheart bison is only one of two producers in the U.S. that conduct field harvests with respect. Bison health benefits include more omega 3 than salmon and great levels of beta carotene.
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.
Dairy: READY, SET, GOat CHEESE! "Maid" in the Shade Farm--get your goat cheese fix! Also now featuring West Wind Goat Dairy too! Raw cow milk cheeses from Veldhuizen Family Farm.
Baked Goods: Flan from Bikkurim Farm's 3rd generation recipe and eggs, blackberry cobbler, breads, sticky toffee pudding, johnnycakes, scones, rolls, cookies, brownies, granola, and kolaches. LOTS of BAKED GOODS WITH PEACHES and TOMATOES.
Flowers: Flowers from Arnosky Family Farm in the Texas Hill Country. Get really long-lasting summer flowers, locally grown. Great sunflowers right now!
Plants: Vegetable starts, trees, ferns, cacti, ornamentals, and herbs.
Assorted: Gazpacho, pestos, chocolate, preserves, dog and cat treats and honey.
Ready-to-Eat: Tamales, savory kolaches, quiches, Ethiopian food, and coffee. LOTS of rehydrating drinks, including: fruitful waters (low-sugar at Southside Kolaches), cucumber lemonade (Bikkurim Farm), varying frescas (Blackland Prairie Farm) and hibiscus tea (Nile Valley Herbs). Empanadas are in the works from the Monkey's Lunchbox. Water sold at the Information Booth.
Crafts and arts: Specially designed t-shirts, dog and cat fashionwear, soaps, paintings, hand died/spun wool, woven shawls & socks, jewelry, soy candles, cloth purses, aprons, yoga mat holders, painted baskets and boxes, potholders, and clayworks.
Services: CAFÉ AREA by the band, great for people watching and music aficionados; and massage (ahhhh...) under the trees in the park. Medical Arts Accupuncture coming again 8/13.
We are a local growers-only market featuring more Central Texas farmers than ever who only sell what they grow. Satisfy your connection to the food you eat and meet the farmers directly!
posted August 2, 2005 | permanent link to this article
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