We’re pretty excited to share with you Austin’s newest non-profit supper club benefitting the Dell’s Children Hospital and the Sustainable Food Center. The Chef’s Table dinner is the brain child of Executive Chef Jason Dodge of Peche and mixologist Michael Menley. This uniquely intimate affair includes thoughtfully prepared and locally sourced food and [...]

Is it cliche to talk about the weather?  I mean we’re all really tired of dealing with this weather, that’s for sure.  I don’t remember anything like it in my lifetime, and I certainly don’t have any experience to draw from for how to farm in it.  This picture is of our squash – on [...]

My friend Daryl over at Ape99.org helped me set up a Black Soldier Fly Grub Composter in the chicken pen yesterday.  I’ve been wanting to try this forever so I was very excited to get his help, (and starter larvae!!).  We propped two 55 gallon food storage barrels in the chicken run and fed them [...]

Regularly it seems, after planting a new area, the weeds get ahead of the baby seedlings – and us!  We then must go in on a rescue mission to save the baby plants.  Sometimes, as it was today, it can be very tedious.  The weeds grow with great vigor, loving that freshly prepared soil and [...]