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Four String Farm

By MM Pack   Photography by Justin Butts Even for a farm dog, Bando has a complicated job description and he takes his work seriously. He’s

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A Barnyard Dance

By Dorsey BargerPhotography by Jody Horton Life on HausBar Farms in East Austin is a marvelous, circular dance between vegetables and animals; a whirling waltz

Judith McGeary

By Layne LynchPhotography by Jenna Noel When Judith McGeary founded the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance (FARFA) six and a half years ago, she intended

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,

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Mill-King Market & Creamery

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

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 Independence Day. “We

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

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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

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

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

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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