People

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 ...

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 ...