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Ask the Permie Pro

By Dick Pierce Dear Permie Pro, Q: Is March too late to plant tomatoes? A: No! Planting season begins mid-January in Austin and runs through March. Beyond that, our daytime/nighttime ...

Garden School

By Sam Armstrong Photography by Aimee Olson While more and more consumers, chefs and restaurateurs cotton to the importance of local foods, Le Cordon Bleu programs at Texas Culinary Academy (TCA) ...

The Pursuit of Fruit

By Jeremy Walther Photography by Jenna Noel and Holly Driggers The romance of a backyard orchard is undeniable. Even for those who see agricultural endeavors as hellacious labor, the ...

Spring Cleaning

By Ellen Zimmermann Photography by Carole Topalian (upper left & middle) and Ellen Zimmermann (upper right) Spring is here, and it’s the perfect time to renew, refresh and restore ...

Flight of the Honeybee

By Susan M. CashinPhotography by Lucinda Hutson Beginning in 2006, and appearing again last spring, a mystery worthy of a CSI team hit professional beekeepers in the U.S. Once healthy and ...

Echinacea: The Root of All Good

By Ellen ZimmermannPhotography by Carole Topalian Now is the time to dig up root herbs to make your medicines for our cool season. The most powerful and most popular herb in our area is ...

Planning a Spring Food Garden

By Claudia Alarcón All gardeners, experienced or otherwise, tell stories of success and failure. Gardening is less an exact science and more a process of trial and error. ...

Being an avid gardener, I’m afflicted with fall fever. No matter how busy my herbal practice keeps me, I take advantage of the more tolerable weather as I plant my fall garden and admire the cooler ...

What I Eat and Why: Eating Seasonally

By Sharon Doerre Photography by Carole Topalian As a child, I was a picky eater—often too disgusted with the appearance and texture of foods to even attempt to eat them. And ...

Gardening Inside the Box

By Sharon Doerre Photography by Carole Topalian Lukas Hjallbring was just two-going-on-three in the spring of 2006, but already suffering from what his parents, Henrik and Debbi, suspected was ...