By Scott Sroufe Normally, if one were to choose a “produce” of the month, it is usually narrowed down to one choice. That allows that one produce item to be in the spotlight and have a time to shine. I thought about it a long…
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Story and Photography by Ramez Antoun My wife and I have been growing vegetables in raised beds for about eight years with a moderate amount of success. There are more challenges to raised bed gardening as opposed to in ground gardening, and some years are…
BY PHOEBE LAKE New Leaf Nursery Two years ago several people stood looking at a bare plot of land behind a small church in Brenham TX. They had just attended a meeting of the Washington County Food Security Coalition. The meeting made clear the local…
By Howard Nemerov In southeast Central Texas, where summers are death to tomatoes in the form of persistent heat and bugs, success here depends on starting seed in January. My tomatoes get potted up twice into #1 nursery containers, and have large, flowering plants ready…