If you are a fan of tomatoes–the most popular food crop in the home garden, then you ought to grow them at least once so you can know firsthand the joy of an honest, fresh, ripe tomato.
Tim farms five acres in Kyle, 20 miles south of Austin, and has done so for more than 20 years. His acreage is certified organic and is certifiably in harmony with nature. He grows only heirloom vegetables, with emphasis in dryland techniques utilizing long range weather forecasting with rainwater collection.
Millberg Farm is in Kyle, Texas, about 20 mile south of Austin, Texas on Interstate 35. From this compact parcel, Tim Miller runs a Community Supported Agriculture program, hosts classes and holds plant sales.
Instead of showing up with a recipe in mind, and a shopping list in hand, for ingredients you found in a book — buy the seasonal produce you find in market and cook according to those ingredients.You will become a very creative cook!.
Jacque Gates believes Bastrop Producers Market is a way to contribute to her community by providing opportunity. She says her life has been blessed and it seemed a way to give some back for all she had.
In an unassuming wood frame building on the eastbound frontage of Highway 71, just outside the city of Bastrop, area farmers and food artisans sell their wares — even when they’re not on site. This is the Bastrop Producer’s Market, owned and operated by Jacque (Jackie) Gates and her husband Jim McCracken.
Cathy Slaughter always had a love of plants, going back to her childhood days of helping her parents with gardening and other relatives with farming duties. And now she does it full-time and loves it. In fact, if you live in Central Texas, and you use organic herb and vegetable transplants from retail nurseries in your food garden, Cathy probably grew them.
Carla Crownover creates her own homemade goodness from the bounty of her backyard vegetable garden, and from her finds at area farms and farmers markets. Most recently she’s been enamored of Orange Blossom Farms’ tangerines.
Whether its video, photo, media education, or food styling, David Barrow looks for daily occurrences that inspire, and he creates learning and challenging environments from which to show off his and others’ passions.
David Barrow is one of the filmmakers (and producer) behind Farm-City, State, a documentary that strives to answer the question: What if a city could feed itself?
