For the holidays, Mama Jeani Wilkinson (Bistro Mama) will be making organic baked goods: apple pies, Dutch apple pies with oatmeal strudel, apple pies with candied pecan topping, classic pecan pies, caramel apple tarts rustica, apple-cranberry tarts rustica, apple steusel...
This Saturday will be the season's last Market Day at Eden's Organic Garden Center. Although you can show up and see what's for sale, the best way to use this market is to pre-order so your goodies are waiting for...
It's been a year since Eden's Organic Garden Center in Balch Springs started its market days with organic and sustainable producers. This Saturday, owner Marie Tedei has a bunch of regulars lined up and encourages everyone to come out and...
I'm hoping Bistro Mama Jeani Wilkinson will still take orders through today for Eden Organic Garden Center's market day Saturday. You can see her price list here, and email her here. I say this because I finally got around to...
I've been hearing for months via the locavore grapevine that chef David Gilbert was planning a restaurant in Rosewood Court that would be using locally sourced ingredients. Today I got to hear it from David himself after running into him...
Not all of these items are at every market, but here's what local farmers are harvesting: tomatoes, peaches, blackberries, red plums, blueberries, green beans, okra, onions, new potatoes, squash, bell peppers, peas (including black-eyes and purple hulls) and some corn....
Jeani Wilkinson, aka Bistro Mama, is taking bread orders for delivery Saturday morning at Eden's Organic Garden Center Market Day. Loaves range from $7 to $10 and include Irish wheat bread, buttermilk white, Italian herb wheat, dilled wheat, artisanal wheat,...
Robert Hutchins of Rehoboth Ranch reminds me that the same organic supplier who's sending the fabulous locally grown organic lettuces I wrote about here also is sending his fresh fruits and vegetables to the McKinney Farmers Market on Saturdays now,...
Now I know how Buttercrunch and red romaine lettuce taste. You may think you know what red romaine is - that wimpy romaine in stores with slightly purplish end leaves. Oh, no. Organic red romaine, grown in Grand Saline, is...
Little Eden's Organic Garden Center in Balch Springs gets started in earnest with its market days, 10 a.m. 9 a.m. to noon Saturday. This tiny, one tent market includes JuHa Ranch chicken and combination pork-goat sausage, which is so tasty....
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