Fresh & New
October 1, 2005
Kevin and Becky Ottmers have plenty of tomatoes for the local-hungry shoppers. They are tasty too!
In the Austin Farmers' Market....
SATURDAYS
Welcome back and also a hello/howdy to these folks, coming 10/1: Practically every one of our 40+ vendors for this season will be there this Saturday, now that the threat of a hurricane is past. Stock the shelves with good food! Also welcome back Annie of Annie's Omnium after her extended time away for wedding and honeymoon!
Not Here 10/1: Kaune Line Farm and Aster's Ethiopian Foods. Pecan Springs Farm will be back about mid-Oct.; Oasis Emu comes back Oct. 15th; Veldhuizen Family Farm (cow milk cheeses) until later in the season; Neagelin Farm (they're out planting 160 acres for the fall); Special Plants from Daniel Teas (out all of Sept. and hot Oct. days); Indian Hills and Hersh are gone to Alaska and will be back in October; La Salle Shrimp really expects low harvests because of the weather.
WEDNESDAYS--NOW GOING UNTIL FALL--KEEP COMING!
Expect this week to see summer crops, including TOMATOES! Soap and purse and pouch maker.
NOW IN SEASON
Vegetables: Tomatoes are coming on STRONG. Summer salad greens and lettuces are here. Also this season are all kinds of eggplant, okra, peppers, yellow and zucchini squash, yellow squash blossoms, butternut, acorn and other heirloom squashes, long beans, radishes, beginning of chard and fresh herbs, including lots of basil.
Fruits: OUTSTANDING WATERMELONS from Reese Farm.. Gala apples and Mollies 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! Peaches are done for the season--it was a good one.
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 and Cornish Game hens, 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 and CLA.
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 (they are out a little while 'til fall).
Baked Goods: Breads, sticky toffee pudding, johnnycakes, scones, rolls, cookies, granola, rolls, and kolaches.
Flowers: Flowers from Arnosky Family Farm in the Texas Hill Country. Get really long-lasting summer flowers, locally grown. Great bouquets now!
Plants: Vegetable starts, trees, ferns, cacti, ornamentals, and herbs.
Assorted: Gazpacho, pestos, chocolate, and preserves.
Ready-to-Eat: NEW is Trevi, specialty RUSSIAN foods! Savory and sweet EMPANADAS continue 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 September 28, 2005 | permanent link to this article
September 24, 2005
Trevi, owned by Natalie Farago, features Russian and Eastern European foods like meat or vegetable stuffed dumplings and blinis (pancakes).
In the Austin Farmers' Market....
Strange, but true...
Reese Farm has ornamental watermelon that came up in their fields that is not edible, but hard as rocks inside, so they can be used for table decorations. Cheryl Reese says that they will last 4 to 5 months!
SATURDAYS
Welcome back and also a hello/howdy to these folks, coming 9/24: THIS IS A PARTIAL LIST OF THOSE COMING -- Arnoksy Family Farm, West Wind Dairy, Kaune Line Farm, Ottmers Family Farm (lots of tomatoes!), Holly Street Market Garden, Texas Coffee Traders, Nile Valley Herbs teas, Oaxacan Tamaleo, Sticky Toffee Pudding, Kakawa Chocolates.
Not Here 9/24: Jake's Natural Fine Foods with granola and biscotti; Bat Creek Farm with apples and apple cider; Austin Readymade pestos and gazpacho (all will be back next week); Pecan Springs Farm (back about mid-Oct.); Veldhuizen Family Farm (cow milk cheeses) until later in the season; Neagelin Farm (they're out planting 160 acres for the fall); Special Plants from Daniel Teas (out all of Sept.); 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 on honeymoon! She'll be back in October.
WEDNESDAYS--NOW GOING UNTIL FALL--KEEP COMING!
Expect this week to see summer crops, including TOMATOES! Soap and purse and pouch maker.
NOW IN SEASON
Vegetables: Tomatoes are coming on STRONG. Summer salad greens are here. Also this season are all kinds of summer peas, eggplant, okra, peppers, yellow and zucchini squash, yellow squash blossoms, butternut and acorn squash, and fresh herbs, including lots of basil.
Fruits: OUTSTANDING WATERMELONS from Reese Farm.. Gala apples and Mollies are coming from Bat Creek Farm in Bertram (out 9/24); with the most honest-to-goodness best-tasting apple cider you've ever had in your life--come try it! Peaches are done for the season--it was a good one.
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 and Cornish Game hens, 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 and CLA.
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 (they are out a little while 'til fall).
Baked Goods: Breads, sticky toffee pudding, johnnycakes, scones, rolls, cookies, brownies, granola, rolls, and kolaches.
Flowers: Flowers from Arnosky Family Farm in the Texas Hill Country. Get really long-lasting summer flowers, locally grown. Great bouquets now!
Plants: Vegetable starts, trees, ferns, cacti, ornamentals, and herbs.
Assorted: Gazpacho, pestos, chocolate, and preserves.
Ready-to-Eat: NEW is Trevi, specialty RUSSIAN foods! Savory and sweet EMPANADAS continue 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 September 20, 2005 | permanent link to this article
September 17, 2005
Trevi, owned by Natalie Farago, features Russian and Eastern European foods like meat or vegetable stuffed dumplings and blinis (pancakes).
In the Austin Farmers' Market....
SATURDAYS
Welcome back and also a hello/howdy to these folks, coming 9/17: NEW: River's End Nursery and Farm (this is their second appearance, catch them about every 5 to 6 weeks). RETURNING: Sticky Toffee Pudding (yeah! for the quiches!); Central Texas Fiber Arts Co-op; The Herb Shack; Oasis Emu meats and oils; and The Blooming Idiots.
Not Here 9/17: Veldhuizen Family Farm (cow milk cheeses) until later in the season; Tecolote Farm (if they get their truck fixed and a higher production); Neagelin Farm (they're out planting 160 acres for the fall); Special Plants from Daniel Teas (out all of Sept.); 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 on honeymoon! She'll be back after several weeks.
WEDNESDAYS--NOW GOING UNTIL FALL--KEEP COMING!
Expect this week to see summer crops. Soap and purse and pouch maker.
NOW IN SEASON
Vegetables: Tomatoes are coming on STRONG. Summer salad greens are here. Also this season are all kinds of summer peas, eggplant, okra, peppers, yellow and zucchini squash, yellow squash blossoms, butternut and acorn squash, and fresh herbs, including lots of basil.
Fruits: Star Fruit this week! OUTSTANDING WATERMELONS from Reese Farm and Bikkurim Farm. Sweet APPLES!. Gala apples and Mollies 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! Peaches are done for the season--it was a good one.
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 and Cornish Game hens, 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 and CLA.
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 (they are out a little while 'til fall).
Baked Goods: Breads, sticky toffee pudding, johnnycakes, scones, rolls, cookies, brownies, granola, rolls, and kolaches.
Flowers: Flowers from Arnosky Family Farm in the Texas Hill Country. Get really long-lasting summer flowers, locally grown. Great bouquets now!
Plants: Vegetable starts, trees, ferns, cacti, ornamentals, and herbs.
Assorted: Gazpacho, pestos, chocolate, and preserves.
Ready-to-Eat: NEW is Trevi, specialty RUSSIAN foods! Savory and sweet EMPANADAS continue 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 September 13, 2005 | permanent link to this article
September 10, 2005
This customer knows how good the fresh pressed apple cider is from Bat Creek Farm, which uses their own apples. They'll be selling from 11-3 too, for the Hurricane Katrina benefit concert.
In the Austin Farmers' Market....
SATURDAYS
Welcome back and also a hello/howdy to these folks, coming 9/10: NEW: Trevi, specialty Russian and Eastern Europian foods! RETURNING: Maid in the Shade Goat Cheese (Cody had the measels!), Pecan Springs Farm with garlic, Nile Valley Herbs Hibiscus teas (were on vacation), Paw Bakery, with delectible dog and cat treats, Bowl Designs with wood products.
Not Here 9/10: Sticky Toffee Pudding (out of town); Veldhuizen Family Farm (cow milk cheeses) until later in the season; 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); Special Plants from Daniel Teas (out all of Sept.), Oasis Emu (out just this week); 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, Bikkurim Farm's sustainably grown vegetables and two prolific gardeners with all sorts of specialty peppers. Baker, soap and pouch maker.
NOW IN SEASON
Vegetables: Tomatoes are still coming, slowly increasing in volume. Come early in the market for these at Ottmers Farm stall. Summer salad greens are here. 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 and Bikkurim Farm. Sweet APPLES!. 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! Peaches are done for the season--it was a good one. We will have starfruit and guava September 17!
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 and Cornish Game hens, 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 and CLA.
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 (they are out a little while til fall).
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: THIS WEEK ONLY, FOR BENEFIT CONCERT, special buffalo tacos and buffalo sausage on a stick from Thunderheart, also chicken molé with rice and beans from Bikkurim Farm's Sylvia Alvarez. NEW is Trevi, specialty RUSSIAN foods! Savory and sweet EMPANADAS continue 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 September 6, 2005 | permanent link to this article
September 3, 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 9/3: NEW!: Jeremy and Alison Barnwell started last week with their FRESH chicken and cornish hens for the first time and they are back, Sammy Reese of Reese Farm brings his signature watermelons. RETURNING: Paw Bakery, with delectible dog and cat treats.
Not Here 9/3: 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, Bikkurim Farm's and Ottmer's Farm's sustainably grown vegetables and two prolific gardeners with all sorts of specialty peppers. Bee Creek Farm is returning with plenty of PEARS!
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. Summer salad greens are here. 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!. 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! Peaches are done for the season--it was a good one. We will have starfruit and guava September 17!
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 and Cornish Game hens, 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 and CLA.
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 September 1, 2005 | permanent link to this article
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