Saturday, June 4, 2011

Photos from ATX Man Magazine Launch Party

The first issue of ATX Man

ATX Man Magazine held their launch party for the inaugural issue of the magazine at the Land Rover Dealership, Wednesday, June 1, 2011.  The event was a total see-and-be-scene event of Austin A-listers and a crowd of 300+.

KXAN's John Bumgardner, Michelle Valles, KEYE's Jason Wheeler,
Jenny Hoff and Pickie Pie's Rachel Elsberry
Fitness Trainer and ATX Man Writer Ryan Nail (friend of Pickie Pie)
Our client Fleming's Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar served up beef tenderloin sandwiches to help celebrate the magazine's launch.
Chef Erick Nixon and Chef Boyer Derise of Fleming's serving it up at ATX Man launch
Tenderloin sliders

Members of the Fleming's team
AW's Katie Lesnick, Jenny Lin and Pickie Pie's Rachel Elsberry

FOOGS Goes Green with YNN-Segment to Air Saturday, June 4th

FOOGS Founder Ty Mellon and his daughter installing our raised bed
March 2010
FOOGS, which stands for "For Our Own Goods," is an online gardening community based in Austin, Texas, which promotes and supports regular folks who want to grown their own food products.  Since becoming a client in 2010, they've got us growing at Pickie Pie, too.  In fact, the raised bed often used in media promotion in our backyard, was built by FOOGs.  It took a white-collared promoter and turned her into a green-thumbed gardener.

FOOGS Garden, May 2010
Tomatoes from our FOOGS garden

Green topics are very hot in the media right now.  Growing your own fruits and vegetables is inherently green.  Pickie Pie has secured several spots since 2010 with YNN's Go Green segment.  Most recently, we secured a green garden pest control segment on YNN, scheduled to air Saturday, June 4, 2011.

In addition to securing media, we contribute content to FOOGS.  Click here to read our first post as we became gardeners.

YNN's Rich Segal interviews Rachel Butler of Foogs.org
Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Simple household products which can be combined to
control garden pests as recommended by Foogs.org

YNN Photographer Drew Moses, YNN's Rich Segal,
 Rachel Butler and Bill Norton, both of Foogs.org