Date: Tuesday May 22, 2012, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Location: Green Gate Farm, 8310 Canoga Ave., Austin, TX 78724

Date: Saturday May 19, 2012, 11 am – 2 pm
Location: private home in central Austin, directions will be sent to all who RSVP
RSVP: president@slowfoodaustin.org

Date: Sunday May 20, 2012, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Location: Countryside Family Farm, 376 Jones Road, Cedar Creek, 78612, TX, USA
Tickets: $28 THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT.

Say goodbye to spring with the final Slow Food farm tour before the summer heat! Meet Sebastian and Esther Bonneu of Countryside Farms in Cedar Creek, just 30 miles outside Austin and specializing in chickens, ducks, rabbits, geese, pheasant, hogs, and turkey. Countryside  will be featured on a summer episode of “Bizarre Foods” with Andrew Zimmern.  Now is your chance to get a sneak peak of their thoughtful animal husbandry. The tour will include a roasted pig lunch on the farm, prepared by our hosts.

Date: Thursday May 17, 2012, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: Boggy Creek Farm, 3414 Lyons Road, Austin TX 78702
Cost: $15 suggested donation

Slow Food Austin will host our seasonal third Thursday farm Happy Hour at Boggy Creek Farm. The evening will feature food sourced directly from the farm and prepared by Chef Matt Taylor, cocktails will be whipped up by Bartender Lara Nixon (owner of Bad Dog Bar Craft Bitters) and will showcase spirits from Balcones Distillery and Dripping Springs Vodka. Sommelier Dirk Miller will be pouring wines that can stand the Texas Heat.  Music will be graciously provided by Jerry Hagins and Crew. This should be a beautiful evening! We hope to see you there. A suggested $15 will cover food and drinks. Proceeds from the evening will go to support Slow Food Austin Programming.

Date: POSTPONED
Location: Palm Square Community Center, Conference Room 1000, 100 Interstate 35 Frontage Rd  Austin, TX 78701
RSVP: email Chelsea Staires
Due to circumstances beyond our control, our session will be cancelled and postponed.  We apologize for the late notice- hopefully it is not too late for you to make other plans.  We aim to reset this session for June and will keep you all posted.  Thank you so much for your support of Slow Food Austin and we will see you soon.

Ever wonder what the Austin City Government does to help improve local food quality and responsibility?  Come to the next Slow Session and hear from members of Austin’s Sustainable Food Policy Board to find out!

Date: Saturday, April 21, 2012, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Location: A+S, Registered Gulf Coast Sheep, Moulton, TX, USA 77975
Tickets: $25 and guests leave with a package of fresh lamb, purchase online

Spring has sprung and so have the lambs! Slow Food Austin invites you to an educational tour with Amy and Shaun Jones, to see their flock of Gulf Coast sheep– a heritage breed from the Slow Food Ark of Taste project. The afternoon will include a walking tour, sheering demonstration, and information on a shepherd’s year and day-to-day life on the farm. All proceeds from your ticket purchase go entirely back to the farmer; guests leave with a package of fresh lamb– buy now, space is limited. Come out and meet the farmers who are helping to bring you food that is good, clean, and fair!

Date: Thursday April 19, 2012, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: Hausbar Farm, near 3278 Govalle Ave, Austin, TX 78702
RSVP: karlal@slowfoodaustin.org

Slow Food Austin will host our seasonal third thursday farm Happy Hour at Dorsey Barger and Susan Hausman’s Hausbar Farm. The evening will feature food sourced directly from the farm and prepared by Chef Matt Taylor of BC Tavern, cocktails by our Tipsy Texans, David Alan and Joe Eifler and music by Jerry Hagins and Crew. This should be a beautiful evening! We hope to see you there. A suggested $15 will cover food and drinks. Proceeds from the evening will go to support Slow Food Austin Programming.

Date: Wednesday April 11, 2012  6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Location: Chef Sonya Cote’s Urban Kitchen: 2104 Rosewood Avenue, Austin, Texas 78702
(It’s a blue house on top of the hill just past Chicon as you are heading east from downtown.)
Recommendations for Parking:
Parking is available on Northwestern (free street parking)
The Learning Center parking lot on the corner of Rosewood and Northwestern
The Church parking lot on Rosewood and Coleto
Also, there is parking on Coleto St and Alamo – the two street surrounding the hill where the house is located
RSVP: Only 20 seats are available. Please email Chelsea Staires at chelsea@slowfoodaustin.org.

Spring and summer veggies will be coming up soon!  Come to our April Slow Session to learn how to put up some of the beautiful bounty from your home garden, neighborhood local farmers’ market, or farm stand from Kate Payne, author of The Hip Girls’ Guide to Homemaking and Austin’s resident hip homemaker extraordinaire.

In this Slow Session, you’ll learn the basics of refrigerator pickling, a quicker, convenient, less labor intensive way to store your fresh veggies and create delicious snacks, meal accompaniments, and gifts!  This method applies to cucumbers of course, but much more including zucchini, artichokes, eggplant, and peppers.

About Kate Payne:
Kate Payne is an author, grant writer, after-hours poet, occasional painter, committed doodler, drive-by trash collector, big-time procrastinator, tea, toast and jam obsessed Austinite. She collects old typewriters; some of them still work. She studied anthropology and sociology in the Sonoran Desert. She worked on a tomato farm once, and paper-mached gigantic thumbs once, too.

The creator of the Hip Girl’s Guide to Homemaking website and book, Kate is the go to girl for domestic advice–an expert on hip home tricks, thrift stores, flea markets, and Craigslist, and a frequent consultant for design, decorating, cooking, crafting, and urban living sites–as well as an instructor in canning and pickling classes here in Austin, TX.

Kate Payne
www.hipgirlshome.com
@hipgirls

Date: Tuesday, March 27th, 6:30 pm
Location: Springdale Farm, 755 Springdale Road, Austin, Texas
Tickets: 5 Course Seated Dinner $65 a person (includes wine) THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT.

Please Join Slow Food Austin for a very special 5 course dinner at Springdale Farm featuring incredible biodynamic wines from Austria paired with a locally sourced Austrian meal by Wolfgang of Fabi & Rosi. This Dinner will not only be delicious, but educational, too. Attendees will enjoy a beautiful meal while learning about the history of the Austrian biodynamic wine movement. This is sure to be a fun, engaging and magical night at Springdale Farm.

A very special Thank you to our Sponsors, Pioneer Wines, Whole Foods Market, Fabi & Rosi and Springdale Farm.

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE.

Date: Sunday, March 18th, 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Location: Indian Hills Farm, 267 Big Bow, Smithville, Texas  78957
Tickets: $20, purchase online

Slow Food Austin is happy to announce the return of farm tours for the 2012 season. Please join us on an educational tour of Indian Hills Farm, where we will meet Hersh and Karen Kendall, along with their grass-fed herd. All proceeds from your ticket purchase go entirely back to the farmer; guests leave with a package of beef and a selection of seasonal produce– buy now, space is limited. Come out and meet the farmers who are helping to bring you food that is good, clean, and fair!