PAST EVENTS!

Sunday, October 25, 2009, on a now rare sunny day, hundreds of people turned out to support The Green Corn Project's fall fund raiser (http://www.greencornproject.org) and dine on fine food contributed by over 20 fine restaurants and caterers. Three chef demos on the back porch and four music groups on the front porch. This was the 11th year of the event!



September 17 & 18, 2009
Brenham TX
For information: info@homesweetfarm.com or 979-251-9922

Learn how to make the cool season (fall-winter-spring) your best growing season! Brad Stufflebeam, farmer/owner of HomeSweetFarm will lead a technical tour of his Brenham area farm and many experts will impart their particular knowledge in the classroom sessions...

...including Pamela Hornby of Gause Texas (Boggy Creek Farm's Greenhouse Specialist and Board Member of the Texas Organic Farmers & Gardeners Association).  On September 17th, Pamela will show slides and explain how to grow the healthiest organic transplants ever!

Pamela grows our transplants which turn into the crops below! (Assuming we keep up the good work!)

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Local Food Event: Edible Austin and BookPeople (www.bookpeople.com/) present author Pamela Walker and her new book, Growing Good Things to Eat in Texas.  Author reading, group disscussion, and local food/local drinks. Farmers featured in the book will be present to add to the discussion.
Friday, September 11, 2009 7 PM, 6th@Lamar, Austin TX.
NEW!!! Hear Edible Austin/Marla Camp's interviews with Pamela Walker and Carol Ann Sayle about Pamela's new book on Heritage Radio Network, online at http://www.heritageradionetwork.com/programs/12-Edible-Communities

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Coming Tuesday, August 25th .... FRESH to a farm near you! This farm!

SOLD OUT!! Order a dvd from freshthemovie.com and hold your own gathering! This film eloquently displays the troubling aspects of our food system, but also offers hope by showing folks who've changed the way they farm or ranch to ensure healthy, humanely-raised animal products....

Edible Austin Magazine and Alamo Drafthouse present a Film Feast at Boggy Creek Farm
on Tuesday, August 25. The event will feature a screening of the new food movie, FRESH (http://www.freshthemovie.com). The movie will not be shown at theaters, only at private gatherings. Proceeds from ticket sales will benefit Sustainable Food Center (http://www.sustainablefoodcenter.org/).

DETAILS:
Cocktails and Conversation: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Locally-sourced picnic dinner by Alamo chefs John Bullington and Trish Eichelberger: 7:30pm;
FRESH film screening, on Alamo's giant "balloon screen" begins at dark.
Tickets: $35 advance only (Includes food and drinks) are available online at Alamo Drafthouse (http://www.originalalamo.com/show.aspx?id=6601). Guests are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets to spread out on the lawn for picnic and film showing. Parking is on the farm. Limited seating, so reserve now!
Co-hosts include: Front Porch Project, Green Corn Project, Farmhouse Delivery, Farm and Ranch Freedon Alliance, Zhi Tea, Maine Root, Texas French Bread, Greenling Organic Delivery,  Independence Brewing Co., Better-World Maker's Co-op, Paula’s Texas Spirits, Slow Food Austin, Urban Roots, Capital Area Food Bank,
and others.
All interested community groups are invited to attend as co-hosts and help present an evening of conversation, farm-fresh picnic feasting along with viewing this outstanding new film about food in America.
Please contact Marla Camp at Edible Austin (http://www.edibleaustin.com/content/index.php) to get involved.
Parking: Parking is available on the farm and Sta. Julia Catholic Church graciously offers their parking lot which is across the street from the farm, at the corner of Lyons Road and Tillery.

June 25, 2009: Women Bloom Event! Fifty ladies in the prime of life, considering how to reinvent themselves, enjoyed BCF vegetables and figs (also in the prime of their lives) anointed by Mary Beth Murphy's exquisite French Olive Oils (www.thepichetable.com). The record heat (107 degrees that day) was alleviated by icy cocktails  provided by Paula Angerstein of Paula's Texas Orange  (paulastexasspirits.com/). Organizer and creator of the event and the website is Allison Allen (www.womenbloom.com/).


May 16, 2009: The Fourth Annual Chicken Seminar was held at the Natural Gardener Nursery in Oak Hill/Southwest Austin. Presenters included Diana Claitor, Paula Middleton, and Carol Ann Sayle....Approximately 200 chickenists attended....

Sunday, October 26th, 2008, noon to 4PM: The Tenth Annual Green Corn Project Fund Raiser. Each year is a FOOD FEAST!!!

Fine restaurants offer tastings: Alamo Drafthouse, Aquarelle, ASTI, Cafe Josie, Cissi's Market, Ecstatic Cuisine, Fete Accompli, FINO , Lake Austin Spa/Resort, La Traviata, Maine Root Handcrafted Beverages, Mandola's Italian Market/Tratttoria Lisina, Natural Epicurean, Olivia, Osteria Primizie, Parkside, Rainwater Tank Town, Sesa Tea, Starlite, Sticky Toffee Pudding Co., Stortini Ristorante Italiano, Taste, Texas Culinary Academy, Teo Gelato, Whole Foods Market, Wink, The Woodland, Zhi Tea

Several bands entertain from the front porch: The Melancholy Ramblers, The Lonesome Heroes, Chris Brecht, Tina Marsh

Four chefs gave cooking demos on the back porch:  John Bates of ASTI, Charles Mayes of CAFE JOSIE, Jesse Griffiths of DAI DUE, THE LAMAR CULINARY CENTER

Our gracious community of chefs, restaurants, and musicians gathered to feed and entertain folks who love good food, gardening and farming -- to benefit the all-volunteer Green Corn Project -- to help accomplish its mission of installing home food gardens in the yards of folks in need. All proceeds went to Green Corn Project.www.greencornproject.org. A wonderful afternoon and support a good cause! See  "Events" page for photos of past Green Corn Project fund raisers.

Blue Star Cafeteria's Yellow & Green Bean Soup, above left....FINO's Paella, above, right and

Chef Trish from Alamo Draft House's  beef/arugula salad, center above....

The Melancholy Ramblers, above, left....and Chef Demonstration by John Bates, ASTI Trattoria, right.

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November 1st, 2008: Texas Book Festival, Austin Texas, at the State Capitol. 

in the Bon Appetit Cooking Tent near the large front gates of the Texas State Capitol at the intersection of 11th Street & Congress Avenue in downtown Austin, a special Panel Discussion, Saturday, November 1st, from 2-3 PM:

"Good Stuff from Around Here: Meet Texas Growers," Saturday, November 1st  2-3pm.

The panel discussion was moderated by food writer and author Corby Kummer. Introductions were made by Marla Camp, Publisher of Edible Austin magazine.

Panel members:
Hugh Fitzimmons/Thunder Heart Bison (South Texas), Loncito Cartwright/Loncito's Lamb (Liveoak County), Brad Stufflebeam/HomeSweetFarm (Washington County), and Carol Ann Sayle/Boggy Creek Farm (Travis County).

For more information on the BookFestival:http://www.texasbookfestival.org/Calendar.php?selected_day=2&eid=356#e356.

Event: Dai Due Supper Club, was here at the farm: Sunday, September 21, 2008. Out doors, the tables stretched to the field. Chef Jesse Griffith used all-local ingredients, the bounty of our own environment, to create amazing flavors. For information and to reserve your seat, at another Dai Due event, visit www.daidueaustin.com  
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The THIRD-annual FREE Chicken Seminar
was held at the beautiful Natural Gardener Nursery, Saturday, 9 to 10 AM, July 19th, 2008.

The Natural Gardener is at 8648 Old Bee Caves Road, Austin, Texas 78735 (Off of Southwest Parkway, corner of Travis Cook Rd and Old Bee Caves Road)
phone 512-288-6113 ... www.naturalgardeneraustin.com (for a map and other info)

Chickens not only provide tasty, nutritious eggs, but also, they are great pets: interesting, communicative, smart in their own way, and very humorous! In an informal gathering, chicken keepers will share information with each other and with those who wish to have their own flocks.

Speakers included Carol Ann Sayle, Paula Middleton, and Diana Claitor. Aunt Penny did not attend as she doesn't like to travel off the farm. (I asked her; she said no.)

Subjects discussed:

Benefits of a back yard flock and recommended size of flock
Breeds of Layers and their attributes
New Chicks: hatching and adoption
Feed Sources (Buck Moore Feed Supply in North Austin now carries certified organic chicken feed)
Hen House Design
Chickens and Composting
Chicken Tractors
Predators
Roosters
Etc....


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Above: Hugh Fitzimmons (Thunderheart Bison) and Larry at a Chef Mike Dyer dinner at the farm, May 17, 2008...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008, 5-8 PM:

Jim Hightower and Susan DeMarco held a book signing with live music, tasty treats, libations, rooster crowing, speechifying, and the signing of their new book,
Swim Against The Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow.

Hosted by BCF, Edible Austin, Book People, and more, the Hoo-rah was a benefit for Texas Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association. Music by The Lovers and La Strada. For more information on other Hightower events: www.jimhightower.com or 512-477-5588.

Results: Nearly 400 folks turned out to celebrate Hightower and DeMarco and The Texas Farmers and Gardeners Association! Great food by local restaurants and great music!

Mr. Hightower's book will be availble in paperback for sale at the farm stand beginning mid January, 2009!

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Larry, left, and Charles Mayes of Cafe Josie.... Charles brought the delicious food art below....


The Ninth Annual Fall Fund Raiser for the Green Corn Project was held Sunday, October 21st, noon-4 PM.

Over twenty fine restaurants/food purveyors served tastings in the front yard. Local musicians entertained on the front porch. Chefs gave cooking demonstrations on the back porch. One of the best silent auctions!

Green Corn Project's mission is to help citizens in need learn to grow their own organic produce. The new growers are mentored throughout the growing seasons as needed, by volunteeers who learn the double-digging technique of producing bountiful vegetables and participate in a true community effort.
Chef Jesse Griffith, above right, of DaiDueAustin.com supper club fame (with partner Tamara Mayfield, left) conducting food demo....Other chefs conducting demos on the back porch: David Ansel/Soup Peddler, and John Bullington/Trish Eichelberger/Alamo Draft House....

Tastings presented by: Alamo Draft House, Sweetish Hill Cafe/Bakery, Sticky Toffee Pudding Co., Lake Austin Spa & Resort, Culinary Academy of Austin, Mangia Pizza & Catering, Texas Culinary Academy, Rainwater Tank Town, Paula's Texas Orange, Whole Foods Market, Farm to Market, Cissi's Market, Dish A Licious, The Woodland, Soup Peddler, Cafe Josie, Aquarelle, Hoover's, Starlite, Wink, Mars, Fino, and Asti.

Live Music (four groups!) on the front porch: Chris Brecht, The Lonesome Heroes, Woody Russell, Suzanna Choffel.


Apparently Marilyn is trying to wring another sample from Sweetish Hill, and she probably alerted ClaireG that Sweetish Hill's fare was excellent!

Chef Eric Polzer of Wink Restaurant, Chef Terry Wilson of Aquarelle, and Marla Camp, publisher of Edible Austin Magazine....

The Lonesome Heroes Band, left...and "Sully" who realizes suddenly that he's offered to help clean up after the festival!
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Dai Due Supper Club returned to the back yard of Boggy Creek Farm ...
Sunday, October 14th, 2007, 6:30 PM

The tables stretched to the field and guests enjoyed a twi-light supper prepared by the artists at Dai Due, Chef Jesse Griffiths and Tamara Mayfield. The various courses were sourced from our fall produce in the farm stand and from our Texas rancher friends whose animals graze on "the open range." It was a true seven-course "Eat Local" experience!

For information and to register for suppers: info@daidueaustin.com .... Check out their other wonderful dining opportunities as well!
This was the setting at our Spring supper; fall is lovely here too, with different flowers in bloom!
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"Tomato Fest 2007" June 16th, 2007. A beautiful day, lots of cheerful visitors, loads of tomatoes, and Irish musician, JEFF MOORE's great Celtic music from the back porch -- it was a wonderful Tomato Festival! (Jeff's Web site: http://www.gilmermoore.com)

June "Early Girl" Tomatoes and Baby Arugula, at the Farm Stand

 
June 30th & July 1st, 2007:
New Farmers Workshops. Texas Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association presented two days of on-the-farm seminars. Those who want to start a farm -- or continue farming -- home gardeners, and curious consumers attended!

Saturday, June 30th: At our Gause, Milam County Farm. Larry presented a technical tour of the growing fields and discussed cover cropping, fertility, disease, pests, equipment, and commercial kitchen. Pamela Hornby demonstrated her greenhouse techniques for starting and growing transplants from seed. Jay Mertz discussed soils and their care. Larry and Kim Alexander explained bio-diesel production. Lunch was catered by Chef Jesse Griffith of daidueaustin.com.

Sunday, July 1st: our Austin Urban Farm. (map on this website) Carol Ann lead a technical tour of the growing fields, shaded hoophouses, prep shed/cooler, and farm stand. Topics included soil fertility, planting techniques, and farm stand management. Suzanne Santos (Austin Farmers Markets) discussed participation in farmers markets. Lunch was catered by daidueaustin.com.

For more information on the next New Farmers Workshops, visit www.tofga.org
TOFGA 's mission is to grow growers!

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Earth Day Supper, April 22nd, at the Farm. Presented by Dai Due. Chef Jesse Griffiths prepared a multi-course meal featuring Boggy Creek Farm produce and fresh Gulf seafood that he personally obtained at the coast. Served on tables stretching out to the field, the supper celebrated the bounty of Earth and Sea. An intimate gathering, lit by candles, under a misty gray sky. For info on upcoming Dai Due Suppers, especially the Tomato/Sweet Corn supper in June, email:  info@daidueaustin.com

 
Chef Jesse Griffiths, preparing the grills/Farmer Larry, resting up for the Supper (Left, above)
Larkspurs by the front driveway....(Right,above)


The tables, stretching towards the back field, for the Earth Day Supper (above)


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Note: The Third-annual free Chicken Seminar will be held Saturday, July 19th, 2008, 9 AM in front of the Hen House at the Natural Gardener. Call 512-288-6113 for more information. Generall the topics covered are listed below...

The second-annual Chicken Seminar, Sunday, March 11, 2007 turned out just swell! Over 100 "chickenists" gathered next to the Hen House with questions about all aspects of keeping backyard flocks!

Mama Harriet & her Chicks.(upper left).... Aunt Penny (upper right), resting up for the Seminar....and the Seminar with the presenting "hens."

Chickens not only provide tasty, nutritious eggs, but also, they are great pets: interesting, communicative, smart in their own way, and very humorous! In an informal gathering, next to the Hen House, chicken keepers will share information with each other and with those who wish to have their own flocks.

Subjects discussed included:

Benefits of a back yard flock and recommended size of flock
Breeds of Layers and their attributes
Starting New Chicks: hatching and adoption
Feed Sources (Buck Moore Feed Supply in North Austin now carries certified organic chicken feed)
Hen House Design
Chickens and Composting
Chicken Tractors
Predators
Roosters
Etc....

Speakers included India Rassner-Donovan, Dominique Lowe (Red Hawk Farm), Linda Daniel, Peggy Anderson-Mapes, Paula Middleton, Diana Claitor, Carol Ann Sayle, and Celebrity Hen, Aunt Penny.

If you would like to be alerted by email of the next Chicken Seminar, send an email to info@boggycreekfarm.com Your address will be used only to alert you.

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Sunday, February 11, 2007, 2-5 PM

"A Slow Sunday at Boggy Creek Farm," an Austin Slow Food celebration of local food! Folks brought dishes of "slow food/real food" ingredients to share with fellow attendees. Most ingredients came either from the attendees' own gardens or from local farmers! The event featured a presentation of the meaning of "Slow Food," and our experiences at Slow Food International's "Terre Madre," in Turin Italy (photos below), where we joined with 5,000 other farmers from 150 countries for inspiration in offering an alternative to "fast food" and the globalization of the world's food supply.

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