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Around Town
AND NEW on the Austin Farmers' Market Calendar -- Second Annual Farm and Food Leaders Training Conference!
Register Early for Only $75 for the Full Conference! Or Just $40 for One Day!
WHEN: Monday, August 18 - Tuesday, August 19, 2008
WHERE: Austin, Texas. Rubio's Event Center http://rubioseventcenter.com/
Be part of an exciting gathering of non-profit leaders, farmers and ranchers, farmers market organizers, local foods activists, and more! The first day will feature top speakers on issues critical to independent agriculture, including:
* the National Animal Identification System
* genetically modified foods
* farm-to-school programs
* water rights and management
* the Farm Bill
* local food systems and farmers markets
The second day will be the training ground for what each and every person can do about these issues! Come early for a networking breakfast on additional topics, such as raw milk, mineral rights, and government organics programs. Then learn what 501(c)(3) organizations can and cannot do, how to create a network of local contacts, practical information on how each of us can be a citizen lobbyist, and laying the groundwork for taking action in 2009!
Check for downtown street closings weekly before you make your trip! Go to Downtown Austin Alliance's website and check out the weekly update, scroll down to the end for street closings.
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The largest certified growers-only farmers market in the state of Texas.
We meet the criteria of having 51% or more of farmers in our vendor base, year-round, AND we enforce that all farmers must grow 100% of what they sell.
What is NEW for Fall, 2008?
The market is year-round! There are more ways to learn about the local food system, there are more community gathering events, and there is much more to accomplish to connect the farmers to you. The market is growing!
The market is a project of the Sustainable Food Center, a local 501 (c)(3) nonprofit. We operate the market because it is an important extension of our mission, to improve access to local, healthy and affordable food for children and adults in Central Texas. We have been involved in doing this in a variety of ways since 1975.
Here is an example of what you will find at the market this early fall:
* Honey
* Field tomatoes and peppers!
* Nutty, nutritious squashes and sweet onions
* Humanely raised lamb, poultry, bison, beef, and eggs from pastured chickens
* Ferol hog
* Late shade-grown lettuces, New Zealand spinach, summer-resistant greens, hardy arugula
* Glorious versatile eggplant in subtle hues of purples of creams
* Okra, alright!
* Tender green beans, cabbages, collards, kale
* Patio gardens and flowering fruit trees and plants
* Fresh-cut flowers
* Fresh, low-temperature pastuerized milk (not homogenized, nor raised with hormones or antibiotics) from pastured cows and ice cream!
* World-reknowned Cocoa Puro chocolate, Sticky Toffee Pudding and the best coffee shop in a downtown street!
* Organic locally brewed, fantastic tasting Maine Root root beer and the "Pink Drink" - of prickly pear
* Artisan breads, melt-in-your-mouth scones, and fresh empanadas
* Melt in your mouth chevre made from goat milk and specialty cow milk cheese
* Whirl around the world with freshly made, locally produced ethnic foods..Mediterranean, Ethiopian, Mexican, Oaxacan, Brazilian, Thai, Japanese, Napalese and more!
Come try these delicious freshly picked and made products direct from our hands to yours!
This is your farmers market. You can celebrate by coming often, and bringing a friend.
Thank you for sustaining your enthusiasm and support for the Austin Farmers Market, we welcome you this ending of our fifth year.
