April 12th - Bluebonnet Farm to Market Dinner
Enjoy a seasonal farm fresh multi course meal prepared by Chef Brian and Amanda Light of Ronin Cooking. Dine family style at the community table in our restored railroad warehouse and farmers market in historic downtown Brenham. All meats and vegetables will be sourced within 50 miles with the story of your food given by Chef Brian and Farmer Brad of Home Sweet Farm. BYOB is encouraged.
CHEF BRIAN and AMANDA LIGHT: Our hope is to share a deeper understanding, appreciation, and connection to our food. Fresh ingredients are of the utmost importance so we strive to utilize produce from our own garden or from local and organic producers.
With this in mind, we serendipitously settled on a 15 acre piece of land. On it, the late Don Ganter’s work – hand built old barns, a workshop, coops, and hutches – was entrusted to us and we have revived and repurposed them to give home to our ducks, guinea fowl, chickens, turkeys, roosters, and roaming heritage breed pigs.
We are content to let nature do what she intends so our practices do not include the use of harmful pesticides or chemicals. We hope to provide the community with the benefits of our land and our hard work.
Event Organizer / Farmer BRAD STUFFLEBEAM "A pioneer of the local food movement in the Lone Star State" (Texas Agriculture Magazine) and 2012 recipient of the Houston Mayor's Award: Champion of Food Justice, Brad has been a professional organic horticulturist in Texas since 1991, the past President of the Texas Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (TOFGA), current USDA Council Member of Southern SARE, Board Member for the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance and a full-time farmer in Washington County Texas. Brad has been an educator and organizer for many of the largest organic farming events in Texas. Brad and his wife Jenny own HOMEsweetFARM serving their local community and the Houston area through a unique Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Program with a Farm Market in downtown Brenham. Featured in numerous articles and books, his enthusiasm and passion has inspired others in their quest for real food.