Wood Duck Farm
October 8th,
2010
This past
Saturday we had over seventy guests attend our Farm dinner which was a real blast.
Being our third dinner of the year, and the first of the fall season, we were
blessed with miraculous weather, which allowed us to dine outside under the
stars. Guest Chefs Justin Yu and Seth Gardner created five
spectacular courses with my favorite being the Texas Gulf Coast Red
Snapper. The Snapper was battered with a "mortar of sorts" comprised of
salt, lavender and citrus leaves. When baked, this allowed the Snapper to
remain so moist that I could have sworn that I was eating lobster. The Sweet
Potato Cake was a real hit as well. For a look at some photos of this event
please visit Oct, 2nd Farm Dinner Pics
(Thanks Lesia for the photos.) Guest chef Justin Bayse of Stella Sola, will host our next dinner which is just two weeks away. Read below for more details.
The Fall CSA program begins next week with deliveries on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at various
locations in Houston, Katy, West Chase, Fall Creek, Kingwood and the Woodlands.
We still have a few opening, so let us know soon if you wish to
participate. Visit CSA Pickup Locations for a pick up
site near you. For those of you in already enrolled in our program,
you will receive an updated email in the next few days. More details ? Visit www.woodduckfarm.com
Good news for those of
you that work and/or live downtown as a Wednesday Farmer's Market is beginning
next week. The location is at the reflecting pool park near City Hall. (Behind
the Shell Building.) It will be from 10am till 2pm every Wednesday.
Reports are that about 40 vendors, both farmers and prepared food folks, will
be participating, so this may give some of you an alternative to "tunnel food."
That's right! Get outside and absorb some vitamin E and eat some healthy greens
at the same time. For more info, visit this link Wednesday
City Hall Farmers Market
Outstanding in the Field? Hoping
to see some of you tomorrow, Saturday, at Jolie Vue Farm in Brenham. Chef
Paul Lewis, the Guest Chef, for this dinner event has been a long time friend
and customer since his days at the Four Seasons Houston. Fortunately,
Paul likes our arugula, so we got an invite to this coveted event. Please say
Hi!
What's Growing? The dry
weather is hurting some of our germination with carrots and beets and making us
water "double time" everything else. Don't understand it as the weeds
seem to germinate just fine. (Go figure huh?) The greens are enjoying the cooler weather., but
grow "thirsty" more frequently as well. The summer crops seem okay,
but too are under a little weed pressure. The broccoli and cauliflower are
getting munched a little from caterpillars; guessing they like their flavor
too. Green Beans looking good.
Next Guest Chef On Our All Star Line Up
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) 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.
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 (which includes tax and gratuity, a real bargain!) and the events will be BYOB. This Sunday dinner will begin with a
reception around 2:30 or so and we will start our farm tour around 3:30-4
with dinner to follow around 5:00. 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
Visiting the Urban Harvest
Farmer's Mktl on Saturday morning? Please stop by
and say hi!
Incidentally,
a lot of our farm events and details can be found on our Face Book page as
well. 
All the Best,
Van Weldon
Cell 713 876
8645
www.woodduckfarm.com
email csa@woodduckfarm.com
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