Food Roots is doing another one of their all-day, all-inclusive locavore/foraging tours on Nov. 21. This one's called "Cheese, Burgers and Viognier." This tour was wildly popular last year. You depart Mockingbird Station at 9 a.m. and make your way...
Update 10-9: Vincent Hirth asks anyone interested in becoming a vendor to contact him at the market's Web site: http://www.fourseasonsmarkets.com. Big news for farmers markets lovers: A year-round, European-style market is coming to Firewheel Town Center in Garland on Saturdays,...
Celebration's Fall 2009 Dinner with Dialogue Series features three terrific speakers Friday night MONDAY, Nov. 9. (Thanks, Pamela.) Pamela Walker is the author of Growing Good Things to Eat in Texas, which profiles several sustainable producers across the state, and...
Meet Pamela Walker, who will be on a panel at Eden's Organic second annual Barn Aid Concert and Dinner Sept. 19. She's just written Growing Good Things to Eat in Texas, which profiles several of the state's organic farmers and...
Goat cheese, that is. On Pure Ground Dairy in Bonham northeast of Dallas has just earned its Texas Grade "A" goat dairy certification (no small feat) and is now producing 100 percent Natural Farmstead Chevre. The farm is on 53...
It was so much fun tagging along as chef/consultant/Slow Food leader Claudine Martyn shopped for a meal at the McKinney Farmers Market; she's featured in my story on today's GuideDaily cover. Several years ago, Claudine did something daring: She left...
Eat-GreenDFW.com, the online connection for several area sustainable producers and partner in the Milestone Farmers Market (third Sunday of the month), has added a new source, Tucker Farms near Ennis. This is the family that used to run Tucker's Grocery...
Local farmers Caroline and Allen Fruth from Cash, Texas, will bring a little country to the city 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Flavors From Afar. Besides beef from heritage Belted Galloway cows and rainbow eggs, they will bring...
The annual meeting of the American Guernsey Association comes to the Dallas area Saturday, and with it, a locavore dining op. When the Guernsey breeders and owners from around the world sit down to dinner, they'll eat all manner of...
Those who follow my blogging know that I am an ardent supporter of sustainable agriculture and the humane treatment of food animals. I really want to know that animals were allowed to be animals before they were slaughtered for food....
Here's a pic from the Fairmont of Pyramid executive chef jW Foster in the 3,000 square foot, pool level garden, which I wrote about here. There's a nationwide trend to rooftop gardens, the better to use space, the better to...
Last night, I attended a dinner to unveil the Pyramid Restaurant's new menu (as a guest of the hotel's PR guy). It's a good menu, with appealing selections like the sesame-lacquered tuna sashimi over green tea noodles with ginger tempura...
The Milestone Farmers Market, which takes place the third Sunday of every month, is moving the EatGreenDFW.com farmers, ranchers and artisanal producers - and their customers - inside to beat the heat. They'll be in the main events area of...
Last night, I had dinner with couple who had just been on the farm tour to Velduizen Farms in Dublin and they brought a couple chunks of cheese with them. OMG, were we in cheese heaven with the Texas Gold,...
If you're in the farmers market swing, you know pickler cucumbers are getting ready to come off their vines. Maybe you'd like to know what to do if you buy a bunch? I just got a fun tweet on Twitter...
Tom Spicer, who supplies chefs and the rest of us out of his F-M 1410 on Fitzhugh, has a bunch of new items to crow about. Out back, he's growing snow peas - he picks 'em and they are $20...
Washington cherries are generally considered the best of the lot grown in the Northwest and imported to our area: big, dark, juicy and sweet. Usually, we go through California cherries first, which aren't bad, but they're not Washingtons. (And we...
As I write this, I am enjoying my first 1015 onion of the season from the Dallas Farmers Market Shed No. 1. All I do is cut off the top and bottom, make a little hollow, add some butter and...
Check it out, that is, on video here. EatGreenDFW.com hosted its first Sunday farmers market with several local producers at North Haven Gardens Sunday. 'Looks like they had a good turnout and plan to do the same thing on the...
You'll recall that produce broker/supplier Tom Spicer, who owns the F-M 1410 storefront on Fitzhugh, was going to plant a garden in the empty lot out back. So far, he's still on the periphery, but crops like tomatoes will get...
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