August 1st-7th, 2021 is National Farmers Market Week! To get Central Texans introduced to delicious, nutritious local food, Texas Farmers’ Markets are highlighting five of their excellent vendors.

Belle Vie Farm & Kitchen raises ducks, chickens, geese, turkeys and pigs on their family farm. Owners Aubrey and Perrine prioritize freshness, bringing farm-fresh meat and eggs to the market as well as products made in their commercial kitchen, like sausages and pâtés. All of their products are made using exclusively farm yields.

Belle Vie owners, Aubrey and Perrine Noelke, are passionate about their free-range ducks, pigs, geese, chickens and turkeys.

Belle Vie practices rotational grazing, and all of their animals are pasture-raised and organically fed. That includes their 2,000 or so chickens and ducks. Belle Vie draws on Perrine’s French heritage, not only for the farm’s name, but also as an influence in their product offerings. Find them at Texas Farmers’ Market at Lakeline and Mueller every weekend. To learn more about Belle Vie Farm, watch their farm tour here.

Owner Aubrey says that the kitchen was built before the farm at Belle Vie, on purpose. “Producing good food lies at the heart of what we do out here.”

WHAT’S IN SEASON

Learn what kinds of Central Texas fruits and vegetables you can expect to find during a given month at the Lakeline and Mueller Farmers’ Markets.

Click below to see what’s typically in season each month, or visit the Lakeline or Mueller Facebook pages on Fridays to see what the vendors are bringing that weekend.

TFM at Lakeline happens every Saturday from 9 a.m-1 p.m. in the Lakeline Mall parking lot (across from Dillard’s).

TFM at Mueller happens every Sunday from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. inside the Mueller Branch Park Pavilion (new location!) and outside wrapping around the perimeter of the building and on the closed-down Philomena Street segment between Aldrich St. and Mattie St.

Texas Farmers’ Markets at Lakeline and Mueller are year-round, rain-or-shine, producer-only markets. Learn more about them at TexasFarmersMarket.org.