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Comanche Oaks

Leon Caldwell, owner of Comanche Oaks farm in La Grange, has been in the farming business since 1987 and has the proud distinction of being one of the first certified organic farmers in Texas. Legend ...

Chasing the Silver Bullet

At the Salt Lick’s Pecan Grove building in Driftwood, we sat at no-frills, classroom-like tables set with wine glasses. Our tasting leader, U.C. Davis professor Andrew Walker, was the featured ...

6 Features on Austin's Urban Farms

Looking to learn more about local food? Austinites will soon have the chance to tour four of the city's farms at the East Austin Urban Farm Tour on April 9. In anticipation of the event, we thought ...

G and S Groves

The sunrise over the Strohmeyer family’s citrus groves in McAllen tinges the tiny white blossoms with pink and gold. Between the trees, the air is thick with the fragrance of the blooms: sweet and ...

Tandem Farm

Many of us have seen the films “Food, Inc.” and “Fresh,” read articles by Michael Pollan and Mark Bittman and heard about the practices of Dan Barber and Joel Salatin. Jordan ...

An Improved Process

When you think about local chicken, Dewberry Hills Farm might come to mind. And thanks to a recent expansion in their processing facility, their chicken is more familiar to customers at local grocery ...

Agua Dulce Farm

In 2011, Jack Waite realized his dream of producing and sharing high-quality food when he founded Agua Dulce Farm—a different breed of farm in southeast Austin. Waite admits he never planned on ...

Back to the Land

In 1998, after nearly two decades of wandering—first on tours of the Far East and California with the Marine Corps, and then via long-haul trucking throughout the Lower 48 and Canada—Bob ...

Winfield Farm

by Nicole Lessinphotography by Pauline Stevens At Winfield Farm, a 35-acre patch of pastoral heaven in Red Rock just southeast of Austin, visitors can live out their agrarian fantasies (or perhaps ...

Indian Hills Farm

by Claire Cella • Photography by Pauline Stevens One can learn a lot from a pecan tree. Patience and balance, for instance, are qualities that Hershel (Hersh) and Karen Kendall have been ...