This month, you’ll find: Yukon Gold Potatoes, Blue Potatoes, Summer Squash, Shallots, Broccoli, Cabbage, Kales, Collards, Green Onions, Swiss chard, Beets, Carrots, Turnips, Green Garlic, Edible flowers, eggs, honey, pastured chicken, pork and beef.
Tomatoes almost ready! Check with us first week in May!
You can also buy transplants for your garden, including: broccoli, cabbage, catmint, collards, kale, lettuce, pac choi, Swiss chard, Tomatoes, zucchini, Asian greens, sweet peppers. Soon, we’ll have more hot and sweet peppers, eggplant, and cucumber.
- Plenty of freshly harvested certified organic vegetables
- Flower bouquets, both edible, ornamental and wildflower
- Free-range meats (chicken, pork, beef and lamb)
- Free-range eggs from happy hens and ducks
- Honey
- Native seeds
- Herbs
- The Hearty Vegan products (tempeh)
- Dairy (for co-op members)
- Plants for your garden
- Baked goods and desserts as available
- And more!
WIC accepted/Lone Star card accepted!
LOCATION: 8310 Canoga Avenue, Austin, 78724 (just 8 miles east of downtown, near MLK+Decker Lane)
Don’t miss our farm tours every Saturday at noon.
If you can’t find our farm stand set up in its usual place, check out our Big Red Barn. Just walk around to the back of the barn and you’ll see a counter full of the day’s harvest.
At our on-farm farm stand you’ll see that sustainability is at the heart of our farm. Our store was cobbled together using found materials and an old shed. Nevertheless, this modest structure provides the highest quality food possible to people of all incomes in our area. Our neighborhood is a food desert with no healthy food nearby. History of the farm stand
Our farm’s “Second Helpings” products — pickled okra, tomatoes and peppers — are also for sale.
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Buy “Second Helpings” and help send a child to camp
A dream has been realized thank to Austin’s Natural Epicurean Academy (NEA): our fields have been gleaned to help those in need.
For years, we’ve wanted to do more with the “seconds” — food with slight imperfections — left in our field. This is especially true after killing frosts arrived in time for Austin’s Eat Local Week. This year, NEA chefs celebrated Eat Local Week by helping us create “Second Helpings,“ pickled certified organic vegetables.
Student Services Coordinator Leanne Valenti put all the pieces together by organizing guest teacher Kate Payne, author of The Hip Girl’s Guide to Homemaking, to share the science of creating shelf-stable pickled products with nine Natural Epicurean students. The chefs-in-training produced four dozen pints of pickled tomatoes and peppers.
This gift – colorful, tasty, useful, easy to pack, affordable — helps all concerned. Get your Second Helpings by calling Green Gate Farms.
All proceeds benefit underserved children who wish to attend summer camp at Green Gate Farms.
Buy “Second Helpings” and help send a child to camp.
We encourage you to direct your grocery dollars to farmers (join our CSA!). Despite recent rains, the drought is forcing many professional farmers out of business. Lost farming expertise is not easily replaced, especially in Central Texas. So make the effort to vote with your dollars. Keep local farms in business. Shop where your food is grown!
“Fridays at the Farm”
Every Friday Beginning at 10 am
Families are welcome to enjoy and explore the farm beginning at 10. While farmers are busy setting up the farm stand for our noon opening, you can picnic in the Children’s Garden, swing under the oak tree or pat a pig’s belly.
Farm Tour, Learn About Our CSA
Every Saturday, 12 – 12:30 $5, per person, free for CSA members
Our farmer-led tour takes you through the historic barn in 1902, to meet piglets, kids born in March, hens, sheep, lambs, ducks and goats. You’ll learn how we conserve water, and leave understanding sustainable methods you can apply to your own garden. You may even hold a newborn goat or collect eggs or pat a pig’s belly – you never know what you’ll find at the farm. Join us – just wear covered toes and mind the electric fencing!
While you’re here, pick up your copy of Sur La Table’s Eating Local, featuring Green Gate Farms!
