By Andrea Abel Photography by Andy Sams
The late afternoon sunlight casts a warm glow across the green pastures of Jeremiah Cunningham’s 90-acre Coyote Creek Farm near Elgin. As if heaving a ...
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By Elizabeth Winslow Photography by Jody Horton
Jane Levan always said she’d leave Austin when the last goat left Brodie Lane. That day came in 1999, when she realized that South Austin was ...
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By David Ansel Photography by Robert Kraft (self-potrait) and David Ansel (mobile chicken unit)
“My guitar is under the bed, next to all the rifles,” says Robert Kraft, manager of ...
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By Elizabeth WinslowPhotography by Jody Horton
At a dinner party five years ago, Lloyd Wendel and Isabelle Lauzière experienced an epiphany. Upon sitting down at the table, the couple was a ...
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When Hugh and Sarah Fitzsimons of Shape Ranch decided to switch from raising Hereford cattle to bison, Hugh thought it was important to educate himself. The initial lesson in “bisonry,” ...
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By Robin Chotzinoff
Photography by Jody Horton
In 1983, when Mike Hughes went into the wild-game meat business, there was no such thing. Americans ate what they harvested during hunting season, but ...
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Photography by Skip Connett
Green Gate Farms owner Erin Flynn has the sort of grace, elegance and beauty that isn’t immediately associated with backbreaking fieldwork and hog slop. Yet farming ...
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Excerpts from a new book by Pamela WalkerPhotography by Linda WalshPublished by Texas A&M University Press • 800-826-8911 • tamupress.com
(From the Foreword by Allan Jones)Pamela ...
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With a degree in horticulture and sustainable food systems newly under his belt, 23-year-old licensed irrigator Jeffrey Wylie was looking for the next big idea. It wasn’t long before he’d set his ...
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By William Norris Photography by William Norris
Sebastien Bonneu’s life has taken him from his native Bordeaux to the Brazos River Basin; from delicate French pastry to pasture-raised ...
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