Welcome to Boggy Creek Farm
A USDA-Certified-Organic Urban Market Farm
since 1991/1992
3414 Lyons Road, Austin TX 78702
(512)926-4650
info@boggycreekfarm.com
(Larry Butler & Carol Ann Sayle)
Above: Romaine Lettuce.
The Annual Conference for Texas Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association is Feb 17-19 in Mesquite Texas. Speakers include BCF's Pamela Hornby (slide show/talk on growing great transplants) and BCF's Larry Butler (slide show/talk on growing great sweet corn) For registration and information: http://www.tofga.org
Part of the Back Field, seen from the Farm House roof.
Luscious Butter Head Lettuce (we have red too)
MARKET DAYS: Every Saturday and Wednesday, ~9-1...Year-round!
Open: Wednesday February 1st & Saturday February 4th
We never close, you know.
Pet, Babette, of the Boss Chicks, along with the broom, does clean up in the farm house kitchen. It is hoped that she will finish before leaving her "calling card."
Our hens' and chicks' diet: USDA Certified-Organic veggies, native plants, worms, and USDA Certified-Organic SOY-FREE Feed, milled in Elgin by Jeremiah Cunningham of Coyote Creek Farm (http://coyotecreekfarm.org/).
Feed, Chicks and Hen House equipment all available at both
Buck Moore Feed ( http://buckmoorefeed.com/ ) 5237 North Lamar (512-451-3469) and
Callahan's General Store (http://callahansgeneralstore.com/)
Hwy 183 South, just south of the Colorado River (512-385-3452)
Babette gets her second modeling job. Here she sports her favorite makeup on beak and toes: MUD.
Photo by Jenna Noel for the Callahan's General Store ad in the Spring Issue of Edible Austin. http://www.edibleaustin.com
Your personal copy is available at the BCF farm stand, compliments of Edible Austin.
Babette will be happy to autograph it for you if you share your croissant!
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Look for photos of past events on the Events Page (click on menu items at UPPER left)....A USDA-Certified-Organic Urban Market Farm
since 1991/1992
3414 Lyons Road, Austin TX 78702
(512)926-4650
info@boggycreekfarm.com
(Larry Butler & Carol Ann Sayle)
Above: Romaine Lettuce.
The Annual Conference for Texas Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association is Feb 17-19 in Mesquite Texas. Speakers include BCF's Pamela Hornby (slide show/talk on growing great transplants) and BCF's Larry Butler (slide show/talk on growing great sweet corn) For registration and information: http://www.tofga.org
Part of the Back Field, seen from the Farm House roof.
Luscious Butter Head Lettuce (we have red too)
MARKET DAYS: Every Saturday and Wednesday, ~9-1...Year-round!
Open: Wednesday February 1st & Saturday February 4th
We never close, you know.
Parking on the Farm. Bring your family. Visit the crops and the Hen House while you are here.
Really Fresh Produce: Harvesting continues until 11 AM or Noon
(depending on conditions) on market day,
but come early (prior to 11 AM) for best selection!
We accept Cash and Checks only. No Credit Cards!
Above: Cauliflower
Really Fresh Produce: Harvesting continues until 11 AM or Noon
(depending on conditions) on market day,
but come early (prior to 11 AM) for best selection!
We accept Cash and Checks only. No Credit Cards!
Above: Cauliflower
Currently on our Market Tables:
Larry's Smoke-dried Tomatoes...great Gift! Larry's Fresh-ground Corn Meal (Organic, non-GMO fresh Texas Dent Corn from Coyote Creek Organic Mill; Baby Bok Choi; Romaine and Butter Head Lettuces; Cauliflower (Gold & White); Broccoli; Kohlrabi; Spring GARLIC; Green Onions; Radishes; Baby Dandelion Greens; Personal Cabbages; Salad Mixes: Baby Lettuces, Baby Succulent Spinach, Baby Kales, Chicory Mix, Baby Chard, and Baby Arugula; Bunches
of Kale (3 varieties),Brussels Greens, Collards, Chard, Adolescent Arugula;
Giant Escarole and Enormous Radicchio: entire plant; Mache will be back very soon; Dan's Sweet Potatoes, Butternut & Buttercup Squashes; On the Shelf: Larry's Smoke-dried Tomatoes, GAUSE YAUPON HONEY! Organic Cotton Hen House Shirts and Totes!
Dan Sondgeroth's Buttercup Squash, Butternut Squash + Sweet Potatoes!
LOTS OF MEAT FOR COLD WINTER NIGHTS' stews, soups, sautes....
*******************************************************************************Dan Sondgeroth's Buttercup Squash, Butternut Squash + Sweet Potatoes!
LOTS OF MEAT FOR COLD WINTER NIGHTS' stews, soups, sautes....
Also at the Farm Stand: NEW THIS WEEK! Fresh Chicken and Ground Beef from Slow Food Farm!! Freedom Ranger Heritage Chickens from Hausbar Farm!! Barrie Cullinan's Amity Bakery goods (Wednesday market only! Meet this award-winning baker in person!!) Sweetish Hill breads/croissants at the Saturday market; Heritage Pork and Lamb from Loncito! Pure Luck Dairy's on "maternity leave"; Straight from the Vine Sauerkrauts and Kim Chi (made with organic ingredients; raw/fermented! Just what your body needs!!); Wateroak
Goat Dairy's FETA Cheese, creamy Chevre, Yogurt, and Organic Fruit Yogurt! Low-temp pasteurized Milk; Fresh
Eggs (BCF Hen House Organic Soy-free eggs, and Jeremiah Cunningham's Organic Soy-free Eggs); Local Miles of
Chocolate
(Gluten-free!); RainWater; and BOOKS: BCF's "Stories from the Hen House" -- also at The Natural Gardener); Jim Hightower's "Swimming Against the Current"....And, "Growing
Good Things to Eat in Texas" the very popular book about farming
and farmers, written by Pamela Walker. Beautiful photos and interesting
stories....for sale at the farm stand and elsewhere...and of course, free copies of Edible Austin Magazine!
Alert: GREAT GIFT: Larry's Original Smoke-dried Tomatoes
are available at the BCF farm stand and by mail order.
To order by mail, click on the menu at left...
Alert: GREAT GIFT: Larry's Original Smoke-dried Tomatoes
are available at the BCF farm stand and by mail order.
To order by mail, click on the menu at left...
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Restaurants that regularly shop (once or twice weekly)
at the BCF farm stand:
Wink (http://www.winkrestaurant.com/)
Cool Wine Bar & Exquisite Cuisine: Over 14 years serving BCF vegs!
Meet Chef Eric Polzer at the farm stand twice weekly Year-round!
Olivia (http://olivia-austin.com/) Now serving Saturday and Sunday Brunches!
Sous Chef Melissa Melissa shops twice weekly.
Jeffreys (http://www.jeffreysofaustin.com/) (open Sunday evenings too!)
Chef Brigitte shops BCF twice a week!
The Highball (http://www.thehighball.com)
Try Chef Trish's spin on our veggies at the Highball Bowling Alley!!! The veggie plate is a complete meal!
She selects BCF produce twice a week!
W's Trace Restaurant's Forager, Valerie Broussard, shops BCF Wednesday market for fresh supplies.
www.traceaustin.com/
Our Kale on Restaurant Tables (3 varieties)
Our Produce on these Evening Menus:
Texas French Bread (http://www.texasfrenchbread.com/)
Above Photo: Cashier Mitch checks out TX French Bread Chef Ben's produce purchases
Caterer/Private Chefs:
Fine Home Dining (http://www.finehomedining.com) Chef Brandy Gibbs
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To read the latest Issue of News of the Farm, "Worry Not ," click on
http://www.boggycreekfarm.com/pages/news-of-the-farm.php
Butternut Soup and Cornbread!
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Thanks to Readers of the Austin Chronicle!
Annual "Best of Austin"
Best Local Farm: Boggy Creek Farm
"Boggy Creek was a USDA-certified organic urban farm before it was trendy to be one (1992.)
Turn in at the big, red tomato sign on an unassuming driveway on the near Eastside, and you'll find
a hen house, a farmhouse from the 1840s, and five acres of earthly bounty. The market stand is modest but stocked with local artisanal items and the farm's own produce harvested from either these fields or Boggy Creek's sister farm outside Gause. Owners Larry Butler and Carol Ann Sayle have built a small culture around their labor of love with an engaging website and blog, seasonal recipes,
and even a children's book based on their chickens."
Thanks folks! You are the Best!
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Upcoming Events!
4th Annual Austin Funky Chicken Coop Tour
SATURDAY, APRIL 7th 2012
Are you a proud owner of a healthy flock, with a functional, safe hen house?
Want to share with others your passion for raising chickens in one of the
most unique Austin community spring events?
For details on becoming a 2012 Coop Host visit http://www.austincooptour.org
APPLICATION DEADLINE: JANUARY 22nd 2012
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Sunday, April 15, 2012
The 3rd Annual East Austin Urban Farm Tour
Sponsored by Farm House Delivery
Farm tours, Chef and Beverage Makers' Tastings.
Four neighboring farms within walking/biking distance of each other,
will be open for field and livestock tours and refreshments!
Since the event is a fundraiser for Farm and Ranch Freedom (http:/farmandranchfreedom.org),
there is an entry fee of $35/adults. (Children under 12 are free.)
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Read the Wall Street Journal article on Boggy Creek Farm:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203550604574360673556925330.html
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For Rachael Shroeder's video on Boggy Creek Farm, click on http://vimeo.com/13910288
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For info on bills affecting your right to the foods of your choice, check with
http://www.farmandranchfreedom.org
Restaurants that regularly shop (once or twice weekly)
at the BCF farm stand:
Wink (http://www.winkrestaurant.com/)
Cool Wine Bar & Exquisite Cuisine: Over 14 years serving BCF vegs!
Meet Chef Eric Polzer at the farm stand twice weekly Year-round!
Olivia (http://olivia-austin.com/) Now serving Saturday and Sunday Brunches!
Sous Chef Melissa Melissa shops twice weekly.
Jeffreys (http://www.jeffreysofaustin.com/) (open Sunday evenings too!)
Chef Brigitte shops BCF twice a week!
The Highball (http://www.thehighball.com)
Try Chef Trish's spin on our veggies at the Highball Bowling Alley!!! The veggie plate is a complete meal!
She selects BCF produce twice a week!
W's Trace Restaurant's Forager, Valerie Broussard, shops BCF Wednesday market for fresh supplies.
www.traceaustin.com/
Our Kale on Restaurant Tables (3 varieties)
Our Produce on these Evening Menus:
Texas French Bread (http://www.texasfrenchbread.com/)
Above Photo: Cashier Mitch checks out TX French Bread Chef Ben's produce purchases
Caterer/Private Chefs:
Fine Home Dining (http://www.finehomedining.com) Chef Brandy Gibbs
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To read the latest Issue of News of the Farm, "Worry Not ," click on
http://www.boggycreekfarm.com/pages/news-of-the-farm.php
Butternut Soup and Cornbread!
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Thanks to Readers of the Austin Chronicle!
Annual "Best of Austin"
Best Local Farm: Boggy Creek Farm
"Boggy Creek was a USDA-certified organic urban farm before it was trendy to be one (1992.)
Turn in at the big, red tomato sign on an unassuming driveway on the near Eastside, and you'll find
a hen house, a farmhouse from the 1840s, and five acres of earthly bounty. The market stand is modest but stocked with local artisanal items and the farm's own produce harvested from either these fields or Boggy Creek's sister farm outside Gause. Owners Larry Butler and Carol Ann Sayle have built a small culture around their labor of love with an engaging website and blog, seasonal recipes,
and even a children's book based on their chickens."
Thanks folks! You are the Best!
***********************************
Upcoming Events!
4th Annual Austin Funky Chicken Coop Tour
SATURDAY, APRIL 7th 2012
Are you a proud owner of a healthy flock, with a functional, safe hen house?
Want to share with others your passion for raising chickens in one of the
most unique Austin community spring events?
For details on becoming a 2012 Coop Host visit http://www.austincooptour.org
APPLICATION DEADLINE: JANUARY 22nd 2012
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Sunday, April 15, 2012
The 3rd Annual East Austin Urban Farm Tour
Sponsored by Farm House Delivery
Farm tours, Chef and Beverage Makers' Tastings.
Four neighboring farms within walking/biking distance of each other,
will be open for field and livestock tours and refreshments!
Since the event is a fundraiser for Farm and Ranch Freedom (http:/farmandranchfreedom.org),
there is an entry fee of $35/adults. (Children under 12 are free.)
******************************************************************************************
Read the Wall Street Journal article on Boggy Creek Farm:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203550604574360673556925330.html
****
For Rachael Shroeder's video on Boggy Creek Farm, click on http://vimeo.com/13910288
****
For info on bills affecting your right to the foods of your choice, check with
http://www.farmandranchfreedom.org
Chicken ITEMS OF INTEREST:
Chickens enjoy the trimmings of kale and broccoli leaves all winter long....
Babette slurps goat's milk cream from the green cap in the farm stand.
She spends some time resting in front of one of the fans near the cashiers.
Toesy our pet hen is in the CNN.com news:
http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/03/15/the-feather-in-the-cap-of-the-austin-food-scene/
CNN
personnel visited BCF March 12th and fell in love with Toesy and the
other hens! So much traffic to this website was generated by the CNN.com
article, that Toesy's Hen House is now a member of google.com/places!
The Toes Knows!!
Toesy wills Lillian, the Tractor, over to her favorite dining spot: the Compost Pile. Update: Toesy died on the last day of 2011. She is buried around the Graveyard Pecan Tree, near her tractors....See her obituary in News of the Farm, menu at left.
Above: Tootie J.Tootums, RIP August, 2010
Read Tootie J. Tootum's first and last article on fall produce in the Fall 2010 issue of Edible Austin
http://www.edibleaustin.com/content/editorial/editorial/676?task=view
Tootie J.Tootums was a much beloved member of the farm family (hens and humans). She was mentored by the Dearly Departed Aunt Penny, who predeceased her.
She is survived by her twin sister, Hoppy J. Tootums, who, after the fall molt, is turning grey with grief.
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Pet, Babette, of the Boss Chicks, along with the broom, does clean up in the farm house kitchen. It is hoped that she will finish before leaving her "calling card."
Our hens' and chicks' diet: USDA Certified-Organic veggies, native plants, worms, and USDA Certified-Organic SOY-FREE Feed, milled in Elgin by Jeremiah Cunningham of Coyote Creek Farm (http://coyotecreekfarm.org/).
Feed, Chicks and Hen House equipment all available at both
Buck Moore Feed ( http://buckmoorefeed.com/ ) 5237 North Lamar (512-451-3469) and
Callahan's General Store (http://callahansgeneralstore.com/)
Hwy 183 South, just south of the Colorado River (512-385-3452)
Babette gets her second modeling job. Here she sports her favorite makeup on beak and toes: MUD.
Photo by Jenna Noel for the Callahan's General Store ad in the Spring Issue of Edible Austin. http://www.edibleaustin.com
Your personal copy is available at the BCF farm stand, compliments of Edible Austin.
Babette will be happy to autograph it for you if you share your croissant!
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Look for more photos of the Farm on the Farm Photos Page (click on menu items at UPPER left)....
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