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Crop Cycles

By Carol Ann Sayle At seven o’clock on an already-warm, humid, drought-suffering mid-June day, sweat dripped from my face as I leaned on the spading fork and pushed its tines easily into the ...

Food is Free

Photography By Dustin Fedako The Food is Free Project started in November 2011 with a single four-by-four-foot raised bed of winter greens in John VanDeusen Edwards’s front yard and a ...

Thirst

By Carol Ann Sayle The plants droop in the torrid afternoon sun, hopeful that the day’s torture may eventually fade. Leaves slump to flank stalks—channels of nutrients and ...

In Dry Times

By Jeremy Walther Photography by Holly Henderson When traveling east to west along Interstate 10 somewhere near Sonora, the transition is sensed more than observed. The color of the spring-fed ...

A Splice of Life

By Laura McKissackPhotography by Susan Kalergis It’s a mild, sunny day as a farmer in Onga, a town in the Fukuoka prefecture of Japan, stands in front of a healthy-looking lemon tree ...

When in Drought

Though the seemingly generous amount of rain our city finally received in December and January provided much-needed relief from record-breaking aridity, Central Texas drought conditions are still ...

Houses of Green

By Jeremy WaltherPhotography by Kelly West A common frustration for gardeners is lack of control. The books say it won’t happen, but we do get late-April freezes in Central Texas. We also get ...

Saving the Future

By Laura McKissack There are many reasons to save seeds from your harvest. The first, of course, is an economical one, but other reasons include quality control and self-sufficiency. By saving ...

By Jessica DupuyPhotography by Aimee Wenske The evening grind for the kitchen at Hopdoddy Burger Bar, South Congress Avenue's hip beer-and-burger joint, plays out as a rhythmic dance. Guests relax ...

Eat Your Roses

By Jim Long Is a rose an herb? Most people would say no, believing herbs to be merely parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme and a few others. However, if you visit India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkey or ...