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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
Read more: The Goat Man Cometh