#FarmFriday Update: BBQ Bash Menu
The menu for the Travaasa BBQ Bash to Benefit Foodways Texas hosted by Chef Ben Baker on June 15, 2013 has been finalized! To tempt your palate… Delicious Texas BBQ featured from: The Salt Lick (Austin) The Granary (San Antonio) Snow’s BBQ (Lexington) Pecan Lodge (Dallas) Killen’s BBQ (Houston) For your drinking pleasure…. Beer tastings will be provided by: Hops & Grain (Austin) The Granary (San Antonio) Rahr & Sons Brewing Company (Ft. Worth) Saint Arnolds Brewing Company (Houston) Cocktails will be provided by Deep Eddies Ruby Red...
New at Travaasa Austin: Chicken Keeper Class
Travaasa Experiential Resort in Austin, TX introduces the Chicken Keeper Class! During your next stay plan to check out our blossoming farm, complete with rows of fresh growing veggies, an orchard and a chicken coop! In this class our Farm Manager, Kim Grabosky, will give a tour of our field and introduce you to the 100 chickens providing fresh eggs for Travaasa’s kitchen. This hands on class will cover everything from the life cycle of a chicken and its needs to how to raise, handle and care for a backyard flock – plus an intro on how to setup a small coop to keep hens safe from predators while giving them room to roam. Collect eggs and hold a hen if you can catch one! You will gain an understanding and appreciation for what it takes to get fresh eggs...
Travaasa Austin BBQ Bash: Welcome to The Travaasa Farm
.Join us Saturday, June 15 from 5-9 PM for the Travaasa Austin BBQ Bash! Not only will this event benefit Foodways Texas, an organization founded to preserve, promote and celebrate the diverse food cultures of Texas, but it will also mark the official launch of the highly anticipated Farm at Travaasa Austin. The Farm at Travaasa Austin is an exciting project that has allowed us to take the “farm-to-table” concept to heart by cultivating our very own 3.25-acre farm. Located across from the property on the edge of the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve, we have been diligently growing produce on our property to supply the kitchen and provide guests education about organic farming practices through additional programing. Held at the Farm, this launch party will...
#FarmFriday Update: A Hen and Egg Story
At Travaasa Experiential Resorts we are feeling very proud this month. The new farm is filling out everyday, and our once baby chicks have grown into pullet hens. In December, we became the caretakers of about one hundred newly hatched chicks of five different varieties. We have watched them grow each week, and they have become quite accustomed to the spacious chicken coop and chicken run down on the Travaasa Farm. At 22 weeks old our chickens have begun to lay what are considered “pullet eggs”. A chicken is technically a pullet until she is a year old, then she is considered a hen. These pullet eggs are beautiful and the different varieties of hens are laying different colored eggs from white to pale blue and green to cream to rich browns with hints of...
#FarmFriday Update: Farm Manager, Kim Grabosky
We’ve been so busy with all of the exciting developments happening with Travaasa Farm that we wanted to take a moment to tell you a little more about Farm Manager, Kim Grabosky. My name is Kim Grabosky and I am very excited to have been brought on as Travaasa, Austin’s Farm Manager. The farm here is a startup and somewhat of a pilot program for the company. Originally from Upstate New York, I became involved with organic agriculture at Peacework Farm in Newark, NY after completing my degree in photojournalism from Rochester Institute of Technology. I had been photographing Peacework as part of a documentary about challenges and solutions for access to fresh foods. I was so fascinated by all of the intricacies of producing diversified crops and an...
#FarmFriday Update: Last Frost in Austin = Spring Is Here
The Travaasa Austin team has been working very hard to develop farming practices and building structures with the goal of creating our very own Travaasa Farm. Every week our Farm Manager, Kim Grabosky, shares her updates on the development. In Austin, this time of year is high planting season. We have been busy planting Travaasa Farm’s perennial herb and flower gardens and pruning the beginning of our orchard. If you have certain varieties of transplants that were seeded several weeks ago in a greenhouse or nursery, you can plant them now as we have just passed the last warming for frost. In Austin, the last frost warning was on March 15th meaning planting season is in full gear. At this point it should be safe to plant your tomato, pepper, and...
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