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Mr. Smarty Plants Revealed

By Katie Cantrell Photography by Meg Griffiths Over the airwaves, the cries for help come in.I have fallen in love with lantana plants. The bushes are producing berries. Are these safe to eat? Is ...

Growing Sentiments

The Chandler and Price letterpress in Shannon Lowry’s backyard studio has been working hard for nearly 100 years, while the seeded paper she uses in her line of hand-printed greeting cards is a ...

The BioGardeners are looking for a few urban landowners who can look at a vegetable garden and see romance. “These are the people who see the farmer behind the table at the farmers market and have ...

Green Corn Project: Mariana Ana Guevera

By Suzanne Hurley “I had a garden in Mexico when I was 10 or 11,” Maria Ana Guevera remembers. “I didn’t do anything special. I just put the seeds in the ground and the stuff grew easily. I ...

Choosing Royalty

By Carol Ann Sayle Photography by Carole Topalian Most market days in spring—once the slowly turning Earth has revealed the sun above the tree line at the eastern side of the ...

Eat Your Yard

By Helen Cordes Imagine this: it’s long about suppertime and you’re hungry, so you step out into the front yard and gather ingredients for a tantalizing Tuscan mélange—green ...

A Harvest of Sharing

By Karen Banks The Sustainable Food Center (SFC) works daily with alarming statistics. Consider the following: In Texas, one in five adults—and one in four children—is hungry. ...

Green Corn Project: Lydia & Juan Cruz

By Suzanne Hurley There’s nothing like harvesting your first crop of organic vegetables, and that’s just what Lydia and Juan Cruz may be doing right now, thanks to a group of ...

Green Corn Project: Austin Discovery School

By Suzanne Hurley Even before the first day of school, Rebecca Vore knew what her students would come to school asking about—the last day of school. The kids weren’t already sick of school, just ...

In Like a Lion

By Carol Ann Sayle Photography by Carol Ann Sayle Oh my, the pace of growing and harvesting vegetables quickens, and to complicate matters, it’s March, the month we can’t completely trust. ...