FARM STAND MARFA
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Saturday, August 25, 2007
Notes From the Garden: The Bee, the Blossom and the Beginning of Civilization, by Sandra Harper
Until recently, as Charles C. Mann writes in his book 1491, historians considered “the four wellsprings of human civilization: the Tigris-Euphrates Valley, in modern Iraq, home of Sumer, oldest of all complex polities; the Nile [...]
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FARM STAND MARFA
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Saturday, August 18, 2007
A GARDENER’S NOTES: The River Farmer by Sandra Harper
Almost everything about a visit to a farm in Redford, Texas, 16 miles east of Presidio, with a population of fewer than 100 is unique. Jesus Valenzuela, whose family has been here for generations, is farming along the banks of the Rio [...]
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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 [...]
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