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Bee Tree Farm

by Jenna Kelly-Landes It’s 6 a.m. and the sleet that fell gently all morning has started spitting horizontally, and now daggers of ice attack the back of my neck as I crouch alongside my goat, ...

44 Farms

by Layne Victoria Lynch • Photography by Andy Sams When Bob McClaren, current owner and CEO of 44 Farms, reorganized and revived his family’s fertile estate in the late ’90s, he had ...

I O Ranch

by K. Thornberry • Photography by Jo Ann Santangelo At breakneck speeds, Jeff Ruyle flies down steep, boulder-strewn hillsides, skirts along river bluffs, hurtles into rocky creek beds and ...

Chris and Diane Winslow

by Meredith BethunePhotography by Melanie Grizzel Chris and Diane Winslow, the owners of South Austin garden center It’s About Thyme, have never completed job applications in their entire ...

by Stefani AustinPhotography from Yonder Way Farm Instagram Each day, over morning coffee, in carpool lines or between meetings, thousands of people from all over the country take time out of their ...

Harvest Time Farm Stand

By Nicole LessinPhotography by JoAnn Santangelo Next to a bait-and-tackle shop, amidst the challenging caliche and limestone terrain of the Hill Country in Canyon Lake, Larry Smith has spent most of ...

Milagro Farm

By Rebecca PersonsPhotography by Pauline Stevens On Milagro Farm, just outside of Austin, farmers Kris and Amy Olsen’s two large chicken coops sit perpendicular to each other—one facing ...

Dirt Farming

By Carol Ann Sayle I grew up playing in dirt. A truckload of authentic topsoil—richly dark with life—delivered to our Balcones Heights lot outside of San Antonio in the 1940s and ...

When Harry Met Maew

by Claire Cella Photography by Pauline Stevens It was one of the last places I expected to see a papaya—especially since the previous time I’d encountered the tropical fruit was on a ...

Resettling America

Thirty-six years ago, Wendell Berry published The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture—exposing the cultural and ecological ravages of industrial agriculture and calling for a revival ...