permaculture

[Marjory <forestgarden@gvtc.com>]

It is that time of year again! Yup, the annual June Bug Festival -

The JuneBugfest
Saturday June 12, 7:00pm at Marjorie + Dave's Barn (south east of Austin)

Bring the kids! Bring yourself!
But leave everything you've been taught about good table manners at home.
We're gonna eat bugs!
Entomophogy...The worldwide practice of eating insects (and spiders)
Big fat juicy ones, wee little skinny ones, we're all gonna eat bugs.

Allen Davisson will be visiting us again to create another amazing 
evening that you and your kids will be remember for the rest of your 
lives. If you have a camera, bring it! We will be preparing tasty treats 
of grasshoppers, crickets, spiders, katydids, bees, wasps, wormy things 
and if we're lucky, a scorpion or two.

This will be a BYOB (Bring Your Own Bugs to share) party so start 
catching them early so we have lots! They can be stored in a bag in the 
freezer until the 12th but get an early start so we have a swarm.

This will also be a 'normal' potluck so bring a dish of ordinary food to 
share. Bring a dish large enough to feed 8 hungry people.

June Bugs are out now around the lights at night.... bag lots of them + 
freeze em.
Grasshoppers, crickets, katydids... keep them alive overnight so they 
get a chance to "purge" then freeze em.
Wasp nests... into a jar with the whole nest... NOTHING will be wasted.
Wolf Spiders... put on a headlamp and their eyes glow like green laser 
emeralds at night. They taste like chicken but they'll eat each other so 
keep em separate.
Grubs...new on our menu this year... not for the faint.
Mealworms.... Usually from the pet store but we wouldn't want to miss em!
Scorpians - yum, yum, the best of the flavors - bring as many as you 
can. They show up yellow at night under a black light.

Bring:
-Bugs
-$5 for big people
-Kids free.
-No adults.

Call Allen at 512 272 8700 or 512 968 0672 if you have any questions 
about your bugs. Contact us through www.backyardfoodproduction.com if 
you need directions.

www.backyardfoodproduction.com