Vendor Spotlight

MOOSE FARMZ

After 35 years of owning and operating seven award-winning Southwestern/Baja Mexican-style restaurants, we moved to Austin, Texas with thousands of recipes and a lifetime of love for great food.

We selected some of our most popular recipes—including fresh salsas, sauces, pozole, fajitas and classic street tacos—and brought them to the Barton Creek Farmers Market.

Nearly two years later, Moose FARMZ has grown beyond the farmers market and can now be found in multiple boutique-style brick-and-mortar markets throughout the area.

We believe great food starts with great ingredients. We follow organic practices whenever possible and source exceptional products, including Force of Nature elk and bison for our pozole and skirt steak. We’ve also recently teamed up with local favorite YETI coolers.

Our goal is to continue bringing Moose FARMZ to more markets and more people, while staying true to what got us here in the first place: a love of cooking, the best ingredients we can find, and sharing great food with our guests, family and friends.

HEART OF TRADITION TOPICAL MAGNESIUM

Daniel started Heart of Tradition 12 years ago. He had moved to France to become a naturopath, where he studied plants, supplements, and body work. He came across magnesium oil and it made a strong impression on him. A very pure source of magnesium was just around the corner in Holland on the Zechstein Sea; so he started a business in France and was able to get the products into many popular organic grocery shops having worked at many of these himself. He then returned to Texas and began to deliver this amazing gift of clear stone magnesium chloride. He wanted the best quality possible, in healthy glass, with only one ingredient. He has several studies on his website describing the need for magnesium, both internally and topically. Apparently, most people are deficient in magnesium, and Daniel sells the best magnesium available!

Daniel says that Full Spectrum Topical Magnesium from the Zechstein Sea is needed for one’s bones, tissues, muscles, nerves, etc. The magnesium market is primarily of industrial grade; and is chemically separated magnesium, creating an inferior product, resulting in less benefit. Many consider that people are more deficient in magnesium than in any other mineral. Topical magnesium works faster than powder/pill form, due to the large surface area of the skin organ. Without an abundance of high quality magnesium, which is hard to find in the soil, the body loses structural flexibility. Magnesium deficiency is a structural deficiency. It is great for sleep, cramps, pain, hair, skin, teeth and more.

SIMPLE PROMISE FARMS

Located in Elgin, Texas, Simple Promise Farms is a nonprofit working farm that supports individuals recovering from drug and alcohol addiction. By combining meaningful farm work, animal interaction, and great leadership, they enable recovery and health. Their produce is beautiful and plentiful, and the workers at the market are a joy to have around.

CAPITAL CITY CEVICHE AND GOURMET GRILLED CHEESE

This week the vendor spotlight shines on Capital City Ceviche and Gourmet Grilled Cheese with Chef Josh and his beautiful wife Jay! They inspect their fish meticulously and the ceviche is great…totally fresh and extremely filling and delicious with excellent pricing. “Grilled Cheese Rizz” makes a variety of gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches on locally baked sourdough bread. The most popular features a farm fresh egg and crispy bacon on a classic grilled cheese sandwich with a chipotle aioli sauce on the side. The chef’s favorite is the short rib grilled cheese made with beer braised beef and crispy onions.

DAN ROHRER ROCKY CREEK ORCHARDS

This week’s spotlight shines on Dan Rohrer of Rocky Creek Orchards and his amazing Top of Texas apples! He’s been coming to farmer’s markets for over 20 years and bringing his wonderful sustainably grown apples. He brings great apples, fabulous, crispy, sweet honeycrisp and delicious galas. The evercrisp will come in two weeks; and he will have cameos and fuji by the end of October!

JINX BREAD

Once you taste it, you’ll know real bread made from wheat. Crafted with the fewest ingredients possible, and all from Texas. Jinx bread is naturally leavened, a technique for rising dough that dates back centuries, but a process sadly pushed aside for convenience.

Natural leavening is not just easier to digest with a lower degree of gluten intolerance, it adds a subtle yet delicious complexity to the flavor of the bread.

LOST PINES YAUPON TEA

Deliciously refreshing, Yaupon is the only caffeinated native plant in North America. We wild harvest it in the Lost Pines Bastrop area as part of the habitat conservation plan. Our regenerative efforts help restore habitat for the critically endangered Houston toad, our mascot.

Yaupon, aka the “beloved tree”, is rich in minerals, antioxidants, with anti-inflammatory properties. What also makes yaupon so unique is its excellent balance of theobromine (the pleasure molecule found in dark chocolate) and caffeine, so it makes a smooth alternative to coffee without the jitters. And because of its lack of tannins it’s not as bitter; its closest relatives are South American yerba mate and guayusa.

We sell it as a cold beverage in summer, also available hot in the winter. The yaupon concentrates flavored with fruit and herbs, and dried yaupon are also available. One cup of yaupon is free with any purchase all year round.

Guazu Vasquez
Market Manager and Sales
Lost Pines Yaupon

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