Eat locally, seasonally produced food. Buy direct from the farmers and the makers. Grow your own, make your own. Start a farmers' market today.
Posted in Food and Flowers, Uncategorized on Jul 11th, 2009
WILDFLOWER GARDENS REPLACE LAWNS
Have you ever dreamed of having a wildflower garden?
Here in Far West Texas most of us have scruffy yards of grasses, invasives and bare dirt crawling with ants. Walking around the yard in flip-flops is not any fun. These unfriendly dirt palettes just might make ideal canvases for a wildflower garden.
After consulting [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 11th, 2007
BEE JOURNAL
After the market on Saturday I take a ride with beekeeper Wilborn Elliott in his honey truck south of Marfa seven miles where we turn east onto Farm to Market Road 169. It’s a sunny afternoon. Good bee weather. There are only ranches along this way, and Wilborn gives family names to them going [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 23rd, 2007
FARM STAND MARFA FOR SATURDAY JUNE 23RD
On a sizzling afternoon this week I took my grandchildren, ages 5 and 21 months, to visit George and Martha Floro’s goat farm, which is a world unto itself nestled in the hills near Alpine. Just visiting George and Martha would be an adventure, but that day in various [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 26th, 2007
Pitaya Dreams
As I sit listening to the rain, I think back to last summer when one Farm Stand morning Shelly Hudson of Marfa brought me a present. It was the fruit of the strawberry cactus, she said. We crowded around her to watch as she cut open the oval, purple-red fruit. Care was required to [...]
