Home & Garden

What I Eat and Why: Eating Seasonally

By Sharon Doerre Photography by Carole Topalian As a child, I was a picky eater—often too disgusted with the appearance and texture of foods to even attempt to eat them. And ...

Gardening Inside the Box

By Sharon Doerre Photography by Carole Topalian Lukas Hjallbring was just two-going-on-three in the spring of 2006, but already suffering from what his parents, Henrik and Debbi, suspected was ...

Waterwise

By Ellen Zimmerman Photography by Carole Topalian (left and middle) and Ellen Zimmerman (right) This past summer my husband and I had the unfortunate experience of having our ...

Green Corn Project: Toni Rockwell

By Suzanne Hurley Toni Rockwell believes in eating locally, and she walks the walk. The vegetables she grows commute 15 feet from her garden to her kitchen. For breakfast, she might harvest ...

My Gardening Manifesto

By Jason Minshew Photography by Jody Horton My goal is to persuade Austinites to reinterpret the relationship between a landscape and a garden. By applying the principles of landscape design to ...

Green Corn Project: Paula Gilbert

By Suzanne Hurley On a sunny Saturday in March, when the heat hadn’t yet driven everyone inside, hundreds of gardeners and wannabes strolled under the oaks in Govalle Park for the third annual ...

Herbal Wisdom

By Ellen Zimmermann Summer is here and the garden is robust and calling to you. Here are a dozen dynamic ways to feel better while using, and enjoying, our delightful green friends. Grow herbs ...

Capital Area Food Bank

By Kerri Qunell In keeping with one of the Capital Area Food Bank’s (CAFB) goals of empowering people by teaching them to grow their own food, a group of 18 CAFB staffers led by example and ...