Here’s our vegetable share box for regular customers, July 21-27. We’re hoping to continue and expand our weekly deliveries into the fall, offering various size shares. We also have eggs, beef, and honey that can be added to your order. Contact us if you’d like more information.
Top row, left to right; okra, garlic, scallop squash, eggplant, cantaloupe, watermelon
Bottom row; peppers, basil, red and white potatoes, golden cherry tomatoes, Swiss chard
*update July 29, 2014, we are sold out of these packs. Stay tuned for more news on available grass fed beef*
We just got back new beef from our most recent calf and have a limited supply of ‘freezer-friendly’ packs of 100% grass fed beef that can be delivered in the greater Austin area. These all natural beef packages include a variety of cuts plus ground beef. You have a choice of a steak pack and/or a roast pack. Together, the two packs provide a convenient and cost effective sample of many of the typical beef cuts.
Grass Fed Beef Tenderloin (Filet Mignon) and Fajita, just about ready. These turned out perfect.
When grilling our steaks, the best strategy is ‘hot and quick’. Our grass fed beef is lean and there is no injected solution/water as in supermarket beef so it’s easy to overcook it.
For the 1″ steaks, grill on a very hot grill no more than 8 minutes total, 3 min. on each side then 1 minute on each side. This should bring them to medium rare. After grilling, put in a pan to collect the juices and cover with foil for at least 5 minutes to ‘rest’ the steaks. Then serve and enjoy.
Some will say grass fed beef is tough so should be cooked ‘low and slow’ – not true for our steaks. Season them with any decent steak seasoning (we use Lawry’s Seasoned Salt) about 30 to 60 minutes before grilling and then grill like you normally would for medium rare.
For the skirt/fajita, we usually marinate several hours in an Italian dressing and grill hot and fast like the prime steaks. When you serve them, be sure to slice them against the grain if you make fajita strips. This is a tougher meat naturally, and slicing with the grain will make it chewy.
Some friends prefer a more well done steak and this beef is wonderfully suited for that as well. The beef remains tender even though grilled past medium. Whatever your taste, you should be pleased with our grass fed beef. If you do prefer a more rare steak, just be sure to tend your grill carefully for the brief minutes the beef is over the heat.
Enjoy!
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
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.
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
Harvest is coming into full production, while planting continues for middle and late summer vegetables. Take a tour of our main garden… 
Wider view of the producing rows, with newer green beans in the front, tomatoes in the background
Speckled Lettuce – an heirloom variety
Chinese (Napa) Cabbage
Heads of ButterCrunch Lettuce, ready for the Elgin and Georgetown farmers markets
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.
Garlic planted last fall is almost ready for harvest:
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.
