Edible Austin

Edible Austin hosts the Food Maker Pavilion again this year at Maker Faire, October 18 and 19. Arguably, there is no DIY project more practical than growing and making your own food. We are hosting this special showcase of local food makers, artisans and growers, with over 30 food makers and farmers on hand with samples, products for sale, and useful advice on how they make their wares. Activities include Sustainable Pumpkin Painting, Talk To A Farmer, and an interactive square-foot demonstration food garden. Strolling musicians celebrating food and food traditions will also perform throughout the area and we'll have an exciting schedule of speakers at our demonstration tent. For tickets and more information, please go to: http://www.makerfaire.com. For questions please email us at: info@edibleaustin.com

 INTERVIEW ON KUT, Growing Concerns, with Cecilia Nasti.

 Edible Austin Food Maker Pavilion will feature:

Local Food Vendors
Torchy's Tacos
Lulu B's
Ararat Mid-East Fusion
Solar Falafel
The Little Sub Trailer
Living Arts Bakery

Food Makers (who will be sampling)
Sugar Tooth Bakery
Famous Plant Powered Firefighters
Rude Mechanicals Theater
Watson Farms
Bark for Peace
Round Rock Honey
Jake's Natural Foods
Greenling Organics
Sesa Tea
Katz Coffee
Thunder Heart Bison
Culinary Academy of Austin
Zhi Tea
Inga Fire Chocolates
Cocoa Puro
McGovern's Organics
Buddah's Brew Kombucha

Other Makers:
Isaac's Woodworks
Green Corn Project
Urban Roots
Sustainable Food Center
Sunset Valley Farmers' Market
Austin Permaculture Guild + solar oven (Luke)
Edible Austin
Dirty Dylan's Organic Greenscapes
Purple Fig Cleaning Coop
So.A.P.

Performances and Other Activities:
Rude Mechanicals Theater (strolling performance art)
La Strada (strolling musicians)
Sustainable Pumpkin Painting (benefitting Sustainable Food Center)
AGA Day of the Dead Skull project

Interactive Community Garden:
Make your own square foot garden in a box at Maker Faire  – and watch our Maker Faire community garden grow! Then take your box home to use as a seed starter for your winter garden or create a square foot garden of your own around it. Grow food not turf! Lawns in the United States consume around 270 billion gallons of water per week—enough to water eighty-one-million acres of organic vegetables all summer long.  An average size lawn could be used instead to produce enough food to feed a family of six. Sponsored by The Natural Gardener with support from Green Corn Project, Urban Roots, Austin Permaculture Guild, Sustainable Food Center. Edible Austin and Dirty Dylan's Organic Greenscapes. More on the Edible Austin Food Maker Pavilion go to: http://www.ediblaustin.com/makerfaire 


Demos / Talks:
Famous Plant Powered Firefighters

Austin Permaculture:: How to grow a kitchen garden

Isaac's Woodworking:: Carving kitchen tools

SESA tea: Tea talk

Bark for Peace: Homemade dog treats

Jake's Natural Fine Foods: Re-purposing food products

Rude Mechanicals: Making pie crust

Patrick Buckley (the Hungry Scientist): Molecular cooking

Luke Iseman: How to build a solar oven

Purple Fig Cleaning Coop: Making natural cleaning products

Edible Austin: Making Butter with kids

Edible Austin: Citizen Gardener program

Katz Coffee: Coffee demo

Zhi Tea: Dr. Oolong talks about tea

Dirty Dylan's Organic Greenscapes: Growing Butterfly gardens

Green Corn Project: Dig-Ins / Citizen Gardener


Looking forward to great Maker Faire 2008!  For additional updates on Maker Faire, check back here or go to: http://makerfaire.com/