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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 ...

Breed ’Em Horns

by Steve Wilson • Photography by Andy Sams When Debbie Davis turned 30 in 1992, her husband, Don, bought her a pair of longhorn heifers. “Kind of for giggles,” she says. “I’d been talking ...

Time Traveler

By Jenna Kelly-Landes Recently, I sat in the pasture, my back leaning against a gnarled cedar elm whose newly unfurled leaves barely cast shadows across the grass. I blinked up into the sky as it ...

Sprawling oak trees dot the landscape on the road to Belle Vie Farm and Kitchen, a family farm northeast of Elgin. On this 40-acre plot of land, husband-and-wife team Aubrey and Perrine Noelke busy ...

Tecolote Farm: Staying with the Program

by Anne Marie Hampshire • Photography by Andy Sams On Sundays, David Pitre reads The New York Times—from front to back—and it takes him nearly all day. It’s how he relaxes on his one day off ...

The Goat Man Cometh

by Claire Cella • Photography by Jo Ann Santangelo If you happen to stumble upon the herd of goats while roaming the sun-drenched pastures of Windy Hill Foods, you might be surprised by their ...

A Return to the Family Tree

by Sarah Hopwood • Photography by Pauline Stevens Walking the streets of Seguin, Texas, is a passport back to a simpler time. Oak-lined streets lead the way through this modest town of 27,000, ...

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 ...