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Working with Joel Salatin: An Intern from Polyface Farm

This summer, Scott Price completed a four-month internship at what may be the most well-known and well-respected organic farm operation in the country: Polyface Farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, run by Joel Salatin.  An accountant by education… [...]

Not Your Average Pumpkin

Growing award-winning pumpkins is no easy task. It takes hard work, a discerning eye, and just a bit of science to produce the greatest gourds. [...]

Young Farmer Profile #3: Marysol Valle at Urban Roots

It’s hard to put your finger on what makes the farm at Urban Roots so enchanting.  Maybe the protective surrounding of trees takes you to a rolling country somewhere, rather than off highway 183 just a few minutes from downtown Austin.  May… [...]

Sad Face: A Brief Note to My Readers Intended to Fill the Void

So this adjustment out of farming is going to be harder on me than I thought.  My grand plan was to wait it out until I was inspired to write about ag and ag issues again, but in the meantime that meant a crushing silence on Dissertation to Dirt. … [...]

The Really Big Three: The Giant Pumpkin Showcase of Champions

The New York Botanical Garden is proud to announce the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth’s Showcase of Champion’s winners for 2011! Beginning Friday, October 21 the three largest pumpkins in the United States will be on display in the Garden’s Visitor C… [...]

Life Off the Farm

I am currently settling into a farm-less life.  We have both found non-ag jobs, and Round Table Farm is closed.  Travis has been hired by a functional landscaping business called Yard Farm. It’s close enough to agriculture that Travis’ ab… [...]

The USDA Loves Subsidies: Do Small Farms Deserve Help Too?

Gene Logsdon, my unspoken mentor (so unspoken that he, in fact, doesn’t know), recently posted an article pointing to small farming as one answer to the jobs crisis in the US.  If the government would get out of the way of small farms, Logsdon say… [...]

Young Farmer Profile #2: Lorig Hawkins at Tecolote

The land east of Austin is a monochrome pallete in the off-yellows of dying plants.  Nowhere was it more stark than when I rounded the curve of pasture that separates Tecolote Farm from Highway 969.  Tecolote is east of downtown Austin, not t… [...]

What To Do With All Those Zukes

Gad Zukes!
Zucchinis are famously prolific. Here are a few ideas from Gardener for Public Education, Sonia Uyterhoeven, on how to use up your homegrown glut. [...]

Austin Bakes for Bastrop

Wildfires have burned an area the size of Connecticut around central Texas, nearly 4 million acres.  30,000 acres have been burned in Bastrop alone, just southeast of Austin.  Thousands of people have been affected, and many have lost their h… [...]