now in season

Farmers

bellevie2

Belle Vie Farm

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

38pecans2

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 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

Time Traveler

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

DavisRanch2

Breed ’Em Horns

by Steve Wilson • Photography by Andy Sams When Debbie Davis turned 30 in 1992, her husband, Don, bought her a pair of longhorn heifers.

IndianHills2

Indian Hills Farm

by Claire Cella • Photography by Pauline Stevens One can learn a lot from a pecan tree. Patience and balance, for instance, are qualities that

beetree3

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

44farms2

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

ioranch-2

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

neiman-1

Going Native

by Pamela Walkerphotos courtesy of Native American Seed Native American Seed is a seed propagation farm and seed cleaning and sales business, located a few

winfield2

Winfield Farm

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