Wood Duck Farm
October15th,
2010
This past week
was busy, busy, busy as our first deliveries for our Fall CSA program coincided
with the grand opening of the Houston City Hall Farmer's Market on
Wednesday.
For those of
you that work/live downtown, the City Hall Farmer's Mkt. should be something
that you should begin to look forward to as every Wednesday, 10-2, the
reflecting pool city park in front of City Hall will be surrounded with food
vendors and local farmers alike. Some
folks might be interested in a lunch alternative to eating in the "tunnel;"
whereas those that remember to bring/store coolers in their car trunks can
consider purchasing local goodies at midday.
(Translated, that may mean a little less commute time as one can bypass
the grocery store stop on the way home.) Not sure if this idea will work if
you're not already logged onto FaceBook, but try this link Houston
City Hall Farmers Mkt on Facebook to see some photos of this past
Wednesday's market. More info on the
Mkt. may be found at Wednesday
City Hall Farmers Market
Members of our CSA program received an assortment of veggies including eggplant, green beans,
radishes, yellow summer squash, cucumbers, portebella mushrooms and salad mix.
Full shares received an extra bag or two of baby arugula and/or salad mix as
well.
What's Growing? Same on same on! No rain, but we're doing okay. The cooler nights and shorter days
are inhibiting our tomatoes from turning red. Not really sure what to do about
that situation. Still planting every week, beets, carrots, arugula, lettuce,
radicchio, some more spinach, radish.
More broccoli and cauliflower to go in the ground soon. Green beans
looking okay as well as sweet potatoes.
Our Butternut and Acorn Squash are running a little behind schedule. Our Sweet Corn is about three feet high. Some looking good, some not.
Outstanding in the Field Thanks Chef Paul Lewis & Staff for an
outstanding evening last Saturday over at Jolie Vue Farm in Chapel Hill. The
weather was fantastic as well as the food. This was a great gathering from
which to meet new acquaintances, as well as reconnect with current friends. Part of being a guest farmer is
that you are requested to speak to other guests about what your farm grows etc. A few times speaking is good, but along
about repeat #8 I started getting a little tired. Oh well it was all for fun
and good times. Try this link Outstanding
in the Field Pics to see some photos on FaceBook.
Next Guest Chefs 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.
Saturday
November 13th Our featured guest chef will be Jon Buchanan, Executive Chef at
Trevisio. Chef Buchanan attended the Art Institute of Houston, began his
culinary career at Café Annie, formally was the Executive Chef at the Daily
Review Houston, and now Trevisio. More
info on that event later.
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 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 or Wednesday's
at lunch? 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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