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The 60-Day Salad

Photography by Jody Horton The culmination of your late-summer / early-fall planting stares at you from a bowl. What do you do? Treat it simply.

From the Ground Up

 If YouthLaunch organizers have their way, 20 new farmers, ages 14 to 18, will sprout on Austin’s East side, just in time for spring planting.

Hors D’Oeuvre of the Season

This fall, the Austin Museum of Art (AMOA) showcases a significant selection of 20th-century masters, but it’s also issued an open invitation to Austin children—to

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The Future of Food

By Kelsey Maki   Photography by Jenna Noel Eleven-year-old Sarah Schmidt opens one eye and stares at the ceiling. She can hear her sister Caitlin

A Simple Fruit Salad

By Lucy Isabel Noll AndersonPhotography by Jenna Noel In the spring of last year, I made my first fruit salad for my mom’s birthday. The

A Chef Is Born

By Johnny ElsPhotography by Marla Camp  My adventures seem to always start in the kitchen. I started being interested in cooking and baking by watching

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The Greening of Garza

By Sharon Doerre    Photography by Jenna Noel Every semester Martha Cason starts her Garza Gardens course with the same blunt question: “How many of

Lunch Box Chronicles

Photography by Coco Dexheimer For most of us parents, too busy to think past PB&J, school lunches and their allied issue of nutrition are a

A Boy And His Flock

By Augusta Dexheimer  Photography by Carole Topalian If you want to find a nice, small, cottage-like house with a chicken farmer who is seven years