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Going Native

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 ...

Armenia Meets the Hill Country

Just 102 miles west of Austin in Fredonia, Texas, Texas Food Ranch farmers Rick and Alik are successfully growing heritage Armenian crops on Hill Country ranch land that’s been in Rick’s family ...

Pure Luck Farm & Dairy

Pulling into the drive of Pure Luck Farm & Dairy on the western edge of Dripping Springs, you’re greeted by the sights and sounds of bucolic farm life: gentle breezes combing through the ...

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 ...

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 ...