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Sustaining Our Farmland

Sustainable Food Center brings together more than 45 farmers and ranchers every Saturday at our two farmers’ markets: Downtown (422 Guadalupe St.) and Sunset Valley (3200 Jones Rd.). Walk the ...

Hairston Creek Farm

There is no mistaking Hairston Creek as you drive up County Road 335 toward the farm that bears its name. It is a big creek, with clear, crystal-green pools that suggest underground springs and ...

Two Hives Honey

Tara Chapman didn’t expect to fall in love with bees. She took her first beekeeping class on a whim, seeking a bit of work-life balance. Instead of just an inspiring hobby, beekeeping quickly ...

La Flaca Farm

From the outside, the ’80s ranch-style home on a cul-de-sac in Southwest Austin looks like any other, but follow a dirt path lined with raised beds of nasturtiums, Swiss chard and Turk’s cap to ...

Arnosky Family Farm

Heading out Texas RM 165 toward Blanco, there’s a moment when you crest a hill and the breathtaking expanse of the Hill Country spreads out before you. Only a few minutes farther along stands the ...

Rain Lily Farm

From the street, Rain Lily Farm looks like a typical prewar bungalow. You wouldn’t know there’s an urban farm there at all, and for most of the property’s history, there wasn’t. Before ...

by Pamela Walkerphotos courtesy of Native American Seed Native American Seed is a seed propagation farm and seed cleaning and sales business, located a few miles from Junction, Texas. The 262-acre ...

Three Cousins’ Strawberry Patch

When Will and Ann Bates’ oldest granddaughter, Hallie Bates, was 9 years old and ready to enter the 4-H program in Poteet, Texas, she told her grandparents she wanted to raise animals—pigs, ...

Bee Tree Farm & Dairy

A golf cart ambles down the hill toward a big, red, open-sided barn, where three effusively friendly Great Pyrenees dogs are keeping watch over a herd of goats (and any visitors that come their way). ...

Acornseekers

For years, Sergio Marsal had dreamed of sharing the Spanish cured-ham delicacy, jamón Ibérico de bellota, with the rest of the world—especially with the U.S. It was a dream borne of urgency after ...