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Montesino Farm

By Elizabeth WinslowPhotography by Jody Horton The sun comes up much earlier on a farm—at least it sure feels that way. With the first crow of the rooster on Sunday morning, my children ...

Fredericksburg Grassfed Beef

By Helen CordesPhotography by Andy Sams When Chuck Schmidt hollers for his young charges on a recent afternoon, the placid Angus and Herefords moo back and start ambling toward him in a languid ...

Grow Forth and Conquer

By Rob Hodges Five-fifty a.m. I reach for the alarm, roll out of bed and throw on ragged clothes. Climbing down in the dark from the bamboo-and-thatch tree house, I make a pit stop at the compost ...

By Elizabeth WinslowPhotography by Morgan Weber Growing up in Yoakum, near the family farm, Morgan Weber wanted little else but to escape to the big city. In 2000, with hardly a backward glance, he ...

Lay of the Land

By Jessica DupuyPhotography by At first glance, Elgin is one of those quaint small towns east of Austin with a historic district and a laid-back feel. And thanks to companies Meyer’s and ...

Robert Mayberry

By Roberto OntiverosPhotography by Marc Brown Third-generation Texan and executive chef of the University of Texas’s Jester Hall, Robert Mayberry loves the grounds of his beloved South Austin ...

Johnson's Backyard Garden

By Jeremy WaltherPhotography by Jody Horton For many small businesses, growth is an angel one day and a devil the next. And many owners have a conflicting attraction to, and hesitancy about, ...

There Is a Season

By Carol Ann SaylePhotography by Jen Reel As the truism goes, “there is a season to all things. . . .” Weather, plants, animals and humans alike change as the year goes by—and as ...

Raising the HausBar

By Spike GillespiePhotography by Jody Horton Dorsey Barger stands amid her recently acquired flock of 200 chickens and describes how the girls greet her each day. “In the morning, I grab the ...

Vanishing Act

By Valerie Broussard Photography by Shaun Jones and Carrie Kenny Heritage foods—the plants and animals that once sustained our ancestors before the food supply became industrialized ...