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Thursday, March 20th, 5-8 PM:
Hightower Hoo-rah and Booksigning at the Farm!
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Join Jim Hightower and Susan DeMarco, for live music, tasty treats, libations, rooster crowing, speechifying (brief, we're promised!), 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 is a benefit for Texas Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association ($10 donation requested). Music by The Lovers and La Strada. For more information: 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!
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The 9th Annual (October 21, 2007) Green Corn Project Fundraiser! It's done for this year!
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.
The happy crowd...enjoying the beautiful weather and the great food....
Diners, relaxing and feasting....
Suzanna Choffel entertains
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, 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:
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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"Supper Club" Event: Sunday June 17th (celebrating Tomatoes & Sweet Corn) For a place on the waiting list or notice of the next Dai Due supper club: info@daidueaustin.com
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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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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!
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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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The 8th Annual Green Corn Project Fund-raiser Festival was a success despite the October 15th 3 PM RAIN!
25 fine restaurants offered tastings in the front yard, while live music played on the front porch. On the back porch 3 chefs conducted cooking demos (Patricia and Trane/ Sweetish Hill; David Ansel/Soup Peddler; Charles Mayes/Cafe Josie). Folks ate, listened, learned, bid on silent auction items, visited the Hen House, strolled the farm, relaxed, and it was for a great cause!
Green Corn Project is an all-volunteer organization that installs gardens for folks who need access to fresh, organic produce, and then mentors them through the growing season. For more information, visit www.greencornproject.org.
See photos further down on this page of last year's festival! Join us next year in the fun!!!
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September 24th, 2006: The "Outstanding in the Field" dinner was a magical event! Following a tour of the farm, Guest Chef Terry Conlan of Lake Austin Spa & Resort created a 6 course gourmet meal paired with Fall Creek Vineyard's wines....All the produce and meats were locally produced and the difference was amazing!
For information on Outstanding in the Field's dinners on farms throughout the USA, visit www.outstandinginthefield.com
Setting the table....
The diners are ready!
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Gause Farm Tour, 2006:
A view of the field....
June 11,2006, Sunday 10 AM: We had a first-ever Farm Tour of our Country Farm near Gause, Milam County TX. Attractions: tomato, cucumbers, squash, melon fields; greenhouse; bio-diesel operation; Smoke-dried Tomato set up.
Tomato Field @ Gause Farm
At the field of (harvested)Squash & Potatoes .... Hiking up the hill to the Tomato Field
Tomato field. Discussing Bacterial Wilt on tomatoes....a result of the Hot and Dry Winter....
After the tours, a lunch of farm-grown produce and tacos filled with White Mountain Foods' Wheat Roast w/Larry's Smoke-dried Tomatoes were served to the intrepid visitors. Folks seemed impressed with the efforts expended at the Gause farm, by Larry and his crew, to bring in additional produce to the farm stand in Austin.
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June, 2006, we hosted a "Farm Camp" for kids, organized by Whole Foods Market for twelve
enthusiastic "campers." They learned composting, sowing seeds,
transplanting, cultivation, and caring for chickens.
Campers learned to plant.... Camp beds, with harvestable crops plus newly-planted crops....
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Sunday, October 16, 2005 -- Green Corn Project's 7th Annual Fall Fund-raiser Celebration.
A Great Success. Many said it was the "food event of the year"! Plans are being made now for October 15th, 2006! For more information, visit www.GreenCornProject.org
 Front Yard: Tastings: Chefs' view of the action. |
 Front Yard: Tastings: Looking down one line of tasting tables. |
 The Annoying Instrument Band, on the front porch. |
 View of the Tasting Scene, from the Farm House roof. |
 The Soup Peddler David Ansel and wife Meredith served up Tomato Bisque soup. |
 Asti's Morgan Dishman prepares Beet Risotto, with assistance from two young helpers, on the back porch. |
 Hurts to Purr plays the front porch stage. |
 Grape Vine Market's table. |
 Jody Zemel, demonstrating the logical ending to the festival! | |
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