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A Fertile Solution

Photography of pepper grown with new fertilization program by Carina Stufflebeam In the eight years that Brad Stufflebeam has operated Home Sweet Farm in Brenham, he’s tried many different ...

Story and Photography By Kelly Yandell Waco, like many growing Texas cities, is ever expanding into the countryside. But just west of Waco, away from the bustle, in the small town of McGregor, sits ...

Urban Patchwork

By Veronica Meewes Photography by Whitney Arostegui Urban Patchwork (UP), Austin’s first nonprofit neighborhood farm network, launched three years ago, very appropriately, on ...

Power of Two

By Carol Ann SaylePhotography by Jenna Noel When my husband, Larry Butler, is asked for advice on starting a farm, most folks—ignited with a spring-like fantasy of farming—want to ...

Boggy Creek Farm

By Elizabeth WinslowPhotography by Pauline Stevens What is now the lively, noisy, vibrant, densely populated neighborhood of East Austin was once a dark-alluvial-soil-rich stretch of the ...

5 Mile Farms

The minds behind Resolution Gardens already had a great thing going. For the past three years, the nonprofit, led by Austin Green Art founder Randy Jewart, has been empowering people to grow their ...

Fava Time

By Carol Ann SaylePhotography by Paul Sokal I have grown fava beans for eight years. Most fava seed offered in the U.S. is meant to grow leguminous cover crops to enrich the soil—three to five ...

Dollars and Sense

By Carol Ann Sayle A young customer once brought her New York City parents to see our farm. As I visited with the ladies, Larry took the father on a tour. It was August, and the man ...

Home Sweet Farm

By Elizabeth WinslowPhotography by Andy Sams In 1787, Thomas Jefferson wrote to George Washington: “Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real ...

Very Superstitious

By Carol Ann Sayle You might think farming is just a simple matter of putting seeds into fertile soil, going on vacation and then returning to a splendid harvest—but come on; that would be ...