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Merrideth Jiles

Merrideth Jiles never intended to have a career working with plants. The Atlanta native graduated from Georgia State University in 1992 with a degree in commercial music recording and worked for a ...

Plant on a Hot Tin Roof

Gardening in Austin is a perpetual and mysterious experiment. Our confusing climate, varied and inhospitable soils, and brutal terrain force gardeners to come up with creative solutions to many ...

Okra: Our Humble Hero

When I moved out of the city and into my little house in the farthest reaches of Travis County farm country, I was completely prepared for setting in my garden, posthaste. The Memorial Day flood ...

THFW

by Carol Ann Sayle On a recent winter day in the kitchen of the old farm house, I opened wide the oven’s door. The stove was fired up, and with adjoining rooms’ doors closed, the kitchen ...

A Growing Legacy

by Lucinda Hutson Lucinda Duncan, my great-grandmother and namesake, crossed the plains in 1852 in an ox train along with 12 other pioneers to become, according to my grandmother’s handwritten ...

Garden Sense

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Resort to Farming

Offering a seasonal menu full of the freshest fruits, vegetables, herbs and meats available from area farms and ranchers has always been a priority for local resort Travaasa Austin. But a year and a ...

Think Tank

An empty glass aquarium left out in the backyard may seem like an unlikely source of inspiration, but for Jack Ikard, it provided the spark for AquaSprouts—a system that converts standard ...

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 ...