A USDA-Certified-Organic Market Farm
The Holiday Lights are always on at the Farm Stand!
3414 Lyons Road, Austin TX 78702
(512)926-4650
info@boggycreekfarm.com
(Larry Butler & Carol Ann Sayle)
The Farm is Open for Visits Wednesday and Saturday 9-1.
Harvesting continues until 11 AM or Noon (depending on conditions) on market day,
but come early (prior to 11 AM) for best selection!
Click on the pages listed to your left to visit various aspects of the farm.
Note: Larry's Smoke-dried Tomatoes, finalist in the Gallo Family Vineyards "Artisan Awards," are now Sold Out for the season. Available once again July 2008.And, Strawberry Picking continues (who knows when it will end...the weather will determine that)! Come early for RED-RED berries. The first two hours are the best picking; it's slim pickings after that! Save the orange ones for the next market! Berries: $5 per green pint basket. (We have the baskets.)Babies eat for free.
Left: A young picker (last year)....Right: We-picked berries for those who don't have time....
Above: This week's offerings includes Flying Saucer Squash (great for stuffing!) plus six other varieties....
PLease NOTE NEW MARKET HOURS!!!(Wednesday and Saturday, 9-1)
(Please remember to bring your personal bags to market! Thanks!)
Currently on our Market Tables: May 7th (Wednesday, 9-1) & May 10th (Saturday):
Strawberries (We-picked and You-pick); Just-dug New Red and White Potatoes; Summer Squash (7 varieties! -- Costata Romanesco Zucchini, Elite Zucchini, Raven Zucchini, Flying Saucer, SunRay Yellow, Zephyr, & Sunburst Scallop); Fresh Spring Onions; Fresh Garlic; Endive Fisee; Curly Endive; Escarole; Salads (Succulent Spinach, Baby Lettuces, Baby Chards for braising or salad, Chicory Salad, Baby Arugula); Dandelion Greens; Culinary Herbs; Brussels Greens; Collard Greens; French Sorrel; and Zinnia & Snapdragon Bouquets...
Local Dairies' (Pure Luck & Wateroak) Goat Cheeses, Yogurt, Milk, and Ice Cream; Local-Humane-Pastured Meat (Thunderheart Bison; Loncito's Lamb); Fresh Eggs (BCF Hen House Eggs & Louis Young's free-range eggs); Local Miles of Chocolate; Aunt Penny's organic cotton t-shirts and tote bags, small organic cotton produce bags, plus the farm books ("Eating in Season: Recipes from BCF"; "Stories from the Hen House") ....
Since November, 2007, we have stopped "recycling" used handle-type plastic bags for produce purchases, encouraging our visitors to bring their own permanent bags (of whatever type preferred by them). The reactions to this "save the Earth from plastic" campaign have been overwhelmingly positive! Now it seems like a major trend. We are all making a difference! Thank you!
Above: Creamy white Kennebec Potatoes...We also have Red LaSoda Potatoes.
Above: Fresh Chard and Sweetish Hill Bakery's fresh Bread (Saturdays only). Also, on Saturdays, we have their Croissants on the Texas Coffee Trader's Coffee Bar...
One of our seven varieties, Sunburst Patty Pan, growing at the Gause sandy-land farm...
Daisies and the Farm House....
Early morning before market....
Above: Salads....
Above: Spring Onions...all parts nutritious and delicious...
Two varieties of Sweet Corn, growing at the Gause farm, above....
Sweet Corn "Ecstasy" at Gause....
Three of the seven varieties of Summer Squash....
Aunt Penny, out for a Spring stroll...
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The New Hut at our farm in Gause, Milam County:
Besides growing crops at our Gause farm, Larry is also busy building our new Hut! He's milling wood from some of our trees that died in the 2006 drought and 2007's floods, and others from a relative's farm that would rather be a part of the Hut than fall under a bull dozer. Fom them he'll make exterior siding, rafters, beams, and floor boards. Here are some photos of the Hut, beginning with its bare bones state, September, 2007. (Future progress will be pictured as it happens.)
The interior of the Hut measures 16 x 24 (384 sq.ft. on the first floor, with a loft approximately half that size for the second floor). The side decks run 31 ft front to back and are 7 feet wide. The decks will be roofed (metal) and screened in for mosquito-less enjoyment. The light-colored trees are dogwoods. The others are post oak and blackjack oak. Understory plants are yaupon, which bloom in late winter/early spring and, with the bees' help, provide our honey.
View of the tiny, but tall Hut from the side. The second story is temporarily floored front to back, for safety and ease of installing rafters and the metal roof.
View from the side deck, looking towards the hidden pond.
View from the loft (second story) towards the pond, which is, for the moment, totally obscured by brush.
The Hut has a Hat! October, 2007:
The Hut, with all roofs, November 11, 2007:
January, 2008:
A break from the Hut ,while Larry builds the new greenhouse (below) at the Gause farm... Soon, Pamela will have it filled up with tomatoes, squash, and cucumbers....
February: The Greenhouse is pretty much finished, so back to the Hut. Yep, using a hand saw below...to frame in the loft bathroom....
Below, farmer-made siding will find a long life on the Hut....
Below, more siding on the back side of the Hut, over the tar paper....Yes, it does look like the Hut is leaning a tad, but I think it was the photographer who was sliding....Next, Larry has to mill more siding...and then, it's tomato planting time! So there will be another lull on Hut building....
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