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Wood Duck Farm
September 17th,
2010
Busy, busy, busy! Lots of work going on here at the farm as
we scramble to get items planted. Seems like we can't tell much of a difference
in our schedule though as the list seems to be getting longer rather than shorter.
Consequently, it always seems as though we are a tad behind. Along with our
normal seeding our arugula and salad mix items, we direct seeded some carrots,
beets, spinach and chard as well this week.
More squash, broccoli, cauliflower, cantaloupe and honeydew were
transplanted as well.
Other news this week is that we are
visiting with the New Hope Presbyterian Church in Katy about being one of our
CSA pick up locations. We'll keep you posted once this is finalized.
As mentioned last week, we are hosting
three farm dinner events beginning in October. The Houston Press, had a nice
little article about our "All-Star Chef Dinners earlier this week. Please take
a look if you'd like at the following link
Spotlight
All-Star Chef Series You can read
more our dinners below.
Our All Star Chefs Line Up
Saturday October 2nd: Houston natives Seth
Siegel-Gardner and Justin Yu, two of the three chefs that collaborated to
create the Just8 Project with the highly acclaimed pop-up restaurant in
Montrose this past August. Chef Seth has worked with the celebrated Marcus
Samuelsson in New York and Chicago, where he served as executive chef at
Samuelsson's C-House and just returned earlier
this year from a month-long stint at The
Fat Duck,
a Michelin three star restaurant in London. Chef Yu's culinary resume includes The Grove, before taking off to work under the late great chef Jeremy Fox
at Ubuntu,
the Michelin-starred "vegetable" restaurant in Napa, CA..
Interested in hearing more about their talent? Visit these two links, Just
August Project Houston Press,
Allison
Cook's Just 8 Project Review, Top
10 and JustAugust
Project Chronicle
Sunday October 24th Chef Justin Bayse is Chef
de Cuisine at Stella
Sola and was named 2010 James Beard Award Semi-Finalist Rising Star Chef of
the Year (FYI Deemed "the Oscars of the food world," by Time magazine,
The James Beard Foundation Awards
are the country's most coveted honor for chefs) Rumors abound that he will be
appearing on the Food Network show Iron Chef this fall as well. Also
a Houston native, Chef Bayse has worked locally with Executive Chef Chris
Shepherd of Catalan and at the Hotel Icon restaurant Voice. Outside of Houston,
he has worked at a farmhouse restaurant called Blue Hill at
Stone Barns in New York and was also at Restaurant August in New Orleans
learning under Chef John Besh.
Sunday November 7th Guest Chef LJ Wiley of Yelapa Playa Mexicana will be winding up our autumn All Star
series. Chef Wiley was recentlynominatedin My TableMagazine for "Best Up-and-Coming
Chef!". Chef Wiley is an avid supporter of
"buying local" as he visits us, and other area growers, every Saturday morning
at the Urban Harvest Farmer's Market. His resume includes attending the
French Culinary Institute (FCI): working at Smith & Wollensky, Brennan's,
and Jean Georges VongerichtenSpice Market in NYC. This link
may provide you some insight about Chef
Wiley Houston Chronicle Yelapa
Review .
Dinner tickets can be purchased at our
Urban Harvest Farmer's Market booth on Saturday morning or via PayPal on our
website at Farm Dinner PayPal Purchase . Prices are $75 per person and the events will be BYOB.
The Saturday dinner will begin with a reception around 3:30 or so and we will
start our farm tour around 4 with dinner to follow around 5:00. The
Sunday events will likely begin about an hour earlier The dinner menus will
focus on locally grown/raised food and will likely include five courses or
so. For more info/photos about our earlier farm dinners visit WDF
Spring Dinners
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