Boggy Creek Farm Profiled in the Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal has a nice profile today of Boggy Creek Farm, the organic market farm in East Austin where much of the produce served in Austin's best restaurants come from. The piece also briefly goes into the curious history of the old farmhouse that still stands on the property, including the mysterious giant brick-lined pit that sits nearby:

Karen Bell, who teaches archeology classes at Austin Community College, discovered the farm on a vegetable-buying outing and led her students on digs at the property from 2003 to 2005. The most perplexing find was a 12-foot long, 6-foot deep brick-lined pit. Ruling out the possibility that it was a cistern, a root cellar or a smokehouse, Ms. Bell says one of her theories is that it was a family hiding place in the event of Indian attacks. Artifacts from the early 20th century included everything from whiskey bottles to a child's rosary.

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[via Metblogs]