Would you like to go on a Very Ethicurean culinary adventure? Try eating food from the farm, at the farm — it can’t get much more local than that!
Outstanding in the Field North American farm tour is coming to Boggy Creek Farm in Austin, TX, on Sunday, September 24. Farmers Larry Butler and Carol Ann […]

“No animal understands its relationship to the farmer like a cow does.” Chickenman and I are walking Pepper back to the pasture — she hopped the fence in order to be near her calf, Creampuff, who was at a neighbor’s house. All night long they were mooing at each other. When asked why Creampuff ran […]

I snagged these gorgeous peppers from Scott Arbor Farm, a family farm located in Seguin, about 50 miles south of Austin. I always make a beeline to their stand at the downtown Austin Farmer’s Market. According to their website, they have been farming organically at the same location for 32 years. They were organic when […]

It sucks when it is 107 degrees in Austin, especially if you’re farming.
I thought I was going to die.  I got there around 7am, and in about an hour it was at that point where the sun was uncomfortably hot on my face and arms.  I fed and watered the chickens, removed fencing, and helped […]

I’m a little shocked by my newest role as a “great cook.”
I’ve always done more mixing than cooking. Pour something out of a box and add water or cream of mushroom soup. Heat. Stir occasionally.
With the bulk of my shopping taking place at farms and farmer’s markets, I find myself not only cooking more real […]

Emilio, an intern from Argentina who helped Chickenman on the farm for ten days, has written a post on his blog about the experience. A very thoughtful, moving account of life on the Food You Can Trust farm. Here is an excerpt:

I had not realized to what extent i am what i eat. […]

I think my friends are starting to get suspicious of me.
That’s what I hated about being a vegetarian: the wariness. “Oh no, here she comes again, trying to make us feel guilty about our food,” or “Great, now we have to make her something without chicken broth in it,” or, “Why won’t she eat meat? […]

Farming is hard.
And I have a feeling Chickenman is going easy on me.
Omnichores:
Shoveling the wood chips out of the brooder house to get ready for the imminent hatching of the chicks.
The brooder house hasn’t been used for a long, long time, except by scorpions and geckos, and really big black spiders. Oddly, the more I’m […]

I had a dream about the eggs last night.
But before we get into all that, I want to tell you about why. I think the dream could only have occurred from working at the farm. There were things I could know only from touching the eggs, walking in the grass, moving across its landscape, breathing […]

I’ve been keeping an eye on my local Whole Foods in Austin. Not so much the behemoth downtown — I’ve mostly been stopping by the li’l one up north, closer to my neighborhood and with much more elbow room. Yesterday when I stopped by to get a cake for a dinner party, I noticed that […]

For those Austinites that are interested in eating at establishments that make use of locally grown food, I suggest two like-minded, yet atmospherically different restaurants: Casa de Luz and Kerbey Lane.
Casa de Luz — located in South Austin and tucked away on Toomey Road off of fast-food gauntlet Lamar Boulevard — is more than a […]

On Sunday, I phoned Chickenman to see if I could stop by to get some eggs and chicken. He said he would be there until the cows came home. Literally. How long would it take me to get there? The drive to Manor takes me about 20 minutes. “Okay,” he said, “I have a chore […]

Austin is lousy with Farmer’s Markets. And by lousy I mean in that Holden Caulfield way that they’re all over the place. According to the United States Department of Agriculture website, there are ten. Last Saturday morning, I went to the South Austin market, as well as the downtown farmer’s market.

I was surprised to find […]

When I decided to start touring farms and farmer’s markets in Austin and post the results on the Ethicurean, I thought that I would simply visit whatever Farm of the Week I fancied, interview the farmer, and post all of the really cute pictures I took. However, this isn’t really how it works, as it […]

That’s what my friend Wendy wants to be called. With my husband (who wishes to be called E-I-E-I Ho), we went on a field trip to Boggy Creek Farm in East Austin. I had been eating really bad food for the last two weeks, partly due to a recent (family emergency, not leisure) trip to […]