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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...