June 18th - Yard Eggs: Happy Chickens and Healthy Eaters

[Brazos Locavores]

Please join the Brazos Valley Farmers Market on Saturday, June 18th
for our special Market to Menu event, located in Downtown Bryan in the
Brazos County Health Department parking lot at the corner of Texas and
William J. Bryan. From 8am till noon, this Go Texan-sponsored program
will feature a Messina Hof cooking demonstration focused on the use of
local eggs and produce in a variety of seasonal dishes. There will
also be several local gardening authors at the event, including Bill
Adams, Pamela Walker, and Doug Welsh. Bill Adams, author of the Texas
Tomato Lovers Handbook, is a retired Harris County extension agent
with thirty years’ experience at the AgriLife Extension Service. His
writing and photography have appeared regularly in Gardens& More,
Horticulture, Texas Gardener, Family Circle, Mother Earth News,
Sunset, and other publications. He grows tomatoes at his home in
Burton, Texas. Pamela Walker, author of Growing Good Things to Eat in
Texas, is a former academic librarian, college English teacher, and
assistant director of the Center for the Study of Cultures at Rice
University, who lives in Houston, Texas. Doug Welsh, a Professor and
Extension Horticulturist with the Texas Cooperative ExtensionThe Texas
A&M University System, is the author of the Texas Garden Almanac and
the coordinator for the Texas Master Gardeners Program. Come out and
sample some great dishes prepared by the chefs from Messina Hof, meet
some local gardening experts and support the farmers in your
community!

Event Title: Yard Eggs: Happy Chickens and Healthy Eaters
Where: Brazos County Health Department Parking Lot, Northeast Corner
of Texas and William J. Bryan
When: June 18th, 8:00am -Noon

The Friends of the Brazos Valley Farmers Market, the Vintage House
Restaurant at Messina Hof, and Go Texan proudly present this Market-to-
Menu event focused on seasonal dishes incorporating produce, meat,
eggs, olive oil and salsa coming exclusively from the market’s farmers
and vendors. Local gardening and food system authors Bill Adams,
Pamela Walker, and Doug Welsh will also be at the market.