Home & Garden

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. ...

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 ...