Gardening

When I moved out of the city and into my little house in the farthest reaches of Travis County farm country, I was completely prepared

On a shelf full of smiling cartoon bees and jolly squeezable bears, a honey named “Satan’s Nectar” may sound a little extreme. Then again, reality

 by Carol Ann Sayle I am fortunate to have survived, and mostly thrived, as a farmer for 25 years. Indeed, I’m still grateful, daily, to

Losing much of their $8,000 fence to the May 2015 floods was bad enough for Cynthia and Russell Wickliffe of Harlequin Dairy Goats in Cedar

by Steve Wilson When Milk + Honey founder Alissa Bayer learned of bee colonies collapsing the world over, she knew she could do more for

by Steve Wilson Financially speaking, there’s no profit in backyard gardening. You can’t grow enough to sell at a farmers market, so you have to

by Lucinda Hutson Disaster struck on my birthday in late February one year. I’d taken a huge potted agave plant out of my greenhouse a

by Jessica Robertson • Photography by Jenna Northcutt March is possibly my favorite time of year in the Central Texas garden. Spring starts to take

by Valerie Broussard • Photography by Pauline Stevens One crisp morning in the region of Veneto, Italy, a group of students—including me—straddled the property line

by Laura McKissack • Photography by Carole Topalian Many of my favorite childhood memories involve the dewberries gathered around the lake where my cousins and

by Carol Ann Sayle A few years ago, the school district in which we live wondered—rightly, I think—what education and value derive from preserving old

by Ines Malti • Photography by Max Elliott Last fall, Urban Roots traveled to New Orleans to visit our sister program, Grow Dat Youth Farm, and