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Grow dat, Part ll

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 ...

The Value of Time

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 ...

The Biodynamic Way

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 ...

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 ...