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Mercurial March in a Bowl

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 ...

Green Thumbs Unite!

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 ...

The Bee’s Needs

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 ...

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 ...

A Hivestead Exemption

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 ...

Hitting Pay Dirt

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 ...

Romancing the Tomato

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 ...

Fruit Trees

by Laura McKissack • Photography by Carole Topalian Many of my favorite childhood memories involve the dewberries gathered around the lake where my cousins and I swam, the little crunchy pears ...

Turning a New Leaf

by Elizabeth Winslow • Photography by Thomas Winslow What would you do if you found yourself suddenly uprooted from everyone and everything you know, far from home and family, in a new land ...

A Little Plot for Learning

The farm plot may be micro—spanning just one-fifth of an acre—but that doesn’t mean the vision of the people behind the UT Micro Farm is as well. On a recent Tuesday evening, ...