North Austin Deliveries for July 2014

We have been blessed with a bountiful harvest this summer and we would love to share it with you!  We’re adding a North Austin weekly Tuesday afternoon delivery as a four week vegetable share program throughout July 2014.

What you would receive: Over $30 dollars worth of fresh produce each week for four weeks. The vegetables you receive will depend on our current harvest availability. We will always do our best to provide a good variety.  Vegetables/fruits we expect to have available for these shares:
Tomatoes – cherry, slicing and sauce varieties
Cucumbers
Yellow squash, Scallop squash, Zucchini, Tatume squash
Red Potatoes, White Potatoes
Swiss chard
Watermelon, Cantaloupe
Basil, cilantro, dill
Green beans
Onions, Leeks, Garlic
Jalapeño, Italian, and banana peppers
Okra
Eggplant

Many of the vegetables we grow are heirloom varieties, so you may get to try something you’ve never seen before!  Here’s a picture of a share you could receive. Top row, left to right; garlic, dill, lemon squash, yellow squash, Italian peppers
Bottom row; red cabbage, golden cherry tomatoes, green beans, Swiss chard, Armenian cucumbers, leeks

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Where/When: Tuesday afternoons between 1:45 and 2:15 in the Dave&Busters parking lot at the 183/Mopac intersection.  OR we will deliver to your home or office for an additional $5 per week, within 5 miles of the 183/Mopac intersection – an area shown approximately on this map.  Home deliveries would happen between 12 and 3 and you don’t need to be there.  Just leave an ice chest with a small freezer pack and let us know where to find it.  We’ll leave your produce and it will keep until evening.

(by the way, if Georgetown is more convenient for you, we offer the same shares there on Thursdays in July.  Details here.)

What you pay: $120 to cover the 4 weeks, payable at your first pick-up, or $140 for home/office delivery.

Flexibility: If you need to skip a week due to travel, etc. we will allow you to slide one week so you would still receive four weeks of vegetables over a five week period. Just give us 3 days notice that you will not be picking up your share.

Our eggs and grass fed beef can also be delivered with your produce.  Special discount beef packages are available to our regular customers – just ask us about it.

First delivery is Tuesday, July 1.  Contact us soon if you’re interested.

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Elgin Local Goods Store

Elgin Local Goods just opened in downtown Elgin.  It’s a new store affiliated with the farmers market and carries produce and meats from local farms, as well as crafts and other locally made wares.  We’re stocking some of our produce and grass fed beef at the store.  It’s open Monday-Friday 11-7 and Saturdays 9-3.  Products are still being added and some renovation is ongoing, but the store is open and has enough produce to make it worth your time.  Right now, you’ll find our green beans, potatoes, garlic, and ground steak at the store. Continue reading

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Spring Harvest and Summer Planting

Harvest is coming into full production, while planting continues for middle and late summer vegetables.  Take a tour of our main garden… IMG_6377

Wider view of the producing rows, with newer green beans in the front, tomatoes in the background

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Speckled Lettuce – an heirloom variety

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Chinese (Napa) Cabbage

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Heads of ButterCrunch Lettuce, ready for the Elgin and Georgetown farmers markets

Broccoli ready for market

Broccoli ready for market

100 foot long rows of tomatoes – the first planted about a month ago and starting to bear.  The second being planted as the trellis is built.

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Austin Area Farmers Markets

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Visit us weekly Thursday afternoons in Georgetown.

We’re at the Georgetown Farmers Market Thursdays 3:30-6:30 in the Church of Christ parking lot.  Highway 29 west of I-35 at the DB Woods intersection.

Visit our public Facebook page for the latest updates on what we’re bringing to market and announcements of when we’ll miss the market due to illness or schedule conflicts.

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Fresh, Pastured and Non-GMO Eggs

Here is a little more information for you about our farm raised chickens and the tasty eggs they lay for you each week.

We feed our flock 100% organic, non-GMO, local feed from Coyote Creek Farm in Elgin TX. You can read about the difference between GMO and non-GMO feeds on their information page here. Though this special feed costs twice as much as typical feed, we believe it is worth it to know exactly what is going into our eggs. As a result of buying this premium feed, our eggs are priced higher than other eggs at our market, but we hope you will agree that the health benefits are worth the extra dollar or two.

As you can see in these pictures, our chickens also enjoy free ranging and foraging to their hearts content. This means they are much less likely to ever get and pass on diseases, so there is no need for them to be treated with antibiotics or vaccinations.

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Spring on the Farm

This is one of the busiest times of year around the farm! There’s so much to plant and prepare for. We are happy that the weather is finally warming up enough for our plants to really start growing! Here are some pictures of our garden springing into life!

Leek transplants ready to be planted tomorrow

Leek transplants ready to be planted tomorrow

Green Kale - planted in the fall and finally starting to take off

Green Kale – planted in the fall and finally starting to take off

Onions planted last fall - almost ready for harvest

Onions planted last fall – almost ready for harvest

Nine 100 foot rows of delicious nutrition!

Nine 100 foot rows of delicious nutrition!

Lettuce mix - should make a great salad in a couple more weeks!

Lettuce mix – should make a great salad in a couple more weeks!

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Broccoli and cauliflower

Broccoli and cauliflower

Broccoli - we planted about 500 plants, but unfortunately we are fighting the bugs to keep many of them alive.

Broccoli – we planted about 500 plants, but unfortunately we are fighting the bugs to keep many of them alive.

Chinese cabbage - our fastest crop

Chinese cabbage – our fastest crop

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Red Cabbage

Red Cabbage

Our potatoes are growing rapidly with the warmer weather

Our potatoes are growing rapidly with the warmer weather

Cover crop of oats and peas in the plot reserved for fall

Cover crop of oats and peas in the plot reserved for fall

Tiny blossom on one of our pear trees

Tiny blossom on one of our pear trees

Blackberry bushes starting to put out new growth

Blackberry bushes starting to put out new growth

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How to Fix Collard Greens

Collard greens grow well this time of year and we have a steady supply at the farmers market.   Did you know you can cook and use them in many different ways?  We didn’t, until we read this article:

Collards Are the New Kale, by Whole Foods Market

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