by Ines Malti • Photography by Max Elliott
Last fall, Urban Roots traveled to New Orleans to visit our sister program, Grow Dat Youth Farm, and this past May, Grow Dat had the opportunity ...
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by Carol Ann Sayle
A few years ago, the school district in which we live wondered—rightly, I think—what education and value derive from preserving old buildings. Potentially at risk was ...
Read more: The Value of Time
by Valerie Broussard • Photography by Pauline Stevens
One crisp morning in the region of Veneto, Italy, a group of students—including me—straddled the property line of two very different ...
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by Lucinda Hutson
Disaster struck on my birthday in late February one year. I’d taken a huge potted agave plant out of my greenhouse a few weeks too early, just when its once-in-a-lifetime ...
Read more: Mercurial March in a Bowl
by Steve Wilson
Financially speaking, there’s no profit in backyard gardening. You can’t grow enough to sell at a farmers market, so you have to give away your surplus before it goes ...
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by Steve Wilson
When Milk + Honey founder Alissa Bayer learned of bee colonies collapsing the world over, she knew she could do more for the insects than just naming her spa after the sweet stuff ...
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Losing much of their $8,000 fence to the May 2015 floods was bad enough for Cynthia and Russell Wickliffe of Harlequin Dairy Goats in Cedar Park. But when the next round of floods in October of that ...
On a shelf full of smiling cartoon bees and jolly squeezable bears, a honey named “Satan’s Nectar” may sound a little extreme. Then again, reality TV star Jesse James, who produces Satan’s ...
Read more: A Hivestead Exemption
by Carol Ann Sayle
I am fortunate to have survived, and mostly thrived, as a farmer for 25 years. Indeed, I’m still grateful, daily, to be on this farm learning—always ...
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by Jessica Robertson • Photography by Jenna Northcutt
March is possibly my favorite time of year in the Central Texas garden. Spring starts to take a foothold with warmer days, which means ...
Read more: Romancing the Tomato