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Texas Artist Tom Lea Captured the Heartbreak of War

Texas Artist Tom Lea Captured the Heartbreak of War

Water poured through an interior wall of the R.E. Thomason Federal Building and Courthouse in El Paso in May 2023, ... Read More »

Putting Down Roots at the Tamox Talom Food Forest

Putting Down Roots at the Tamox Talom Food Forest

To joggers along the Acequia Trail in San Antonio, the garden looked abandoned after a spurt of summer rains. Lush ... Read More »

All Eyes Are on Dallas This Summer 

All Eyes Are on Dallas This Summer 

All Eyes on Dallas As it prepares to serve as a host city for this summer’s FIFA world cup, the Big D ... Read More »

This Modern Honey Stand in Tomball Never Closes

This Modern Honey Stand in Tomball Never Closes

During my college years, my father harvested raw honey on our Brenham family farm. Infused with an unmistakable ... Read More »

Jim Martinez Cultivates Lush Gardens in West Texas

Jim Martinez Cultivates Lush Gardens in West Texas

It’s 6 a.m., and Marfa landscape designer Jim Martinez is already deep into his workday tending a garden. “When ... Read More »

Chef-Grown Gardens Enhance the Experience at These Texas Restaurants

Chef-Grown Gardens Enhance the Experience at These Texas Restaurants

Scott Girling did not expect his garden to attract so many admirers. When a passion project in the backyard of his ... Read More »

Pedernales Falls Is a Force of Nature

Pedernales Falls Is a Force of Nature

My dad cut the head off a cottonmouth snake when I was 9 years old. He draped the body delicately over a tree ... Read More »

2026 Texas Wildflower Forecast: A Crop Concealed, For Now

2026 Texas Wildflower Forecast: A Crop Concealed, For Now

Watching wildflowers in Texas is like a game of hide-and-seek on a statewide playing field.  The first ... Read More »

Amarillo’s Circus Room Walks a Tightrope Between Past and Present

Amarillo’s Circus Room Walks a Tightrope Between Past and Present

From the small parking lot, the blue, concrete-brick bar doesn’t look like much. The only hints about what awaits ... Read More »

The Mysterious Cereus Blooms in West Texas

The Mysterious Cereus Blooms in West Texas

The Mysterious Cereus This West Texas cactus blooms only one day out of the year—at night, in the middle ... Read More »

Texas Tulips Is a Family Tradition in North Texas

Texas Tulips Is a Family Tradition in North Texas

Every Friday night in the 1980s, Pieter Koeman and his sisters would pile onto the couch, eyes glued to the ... Read More »

A Berry Sweet Spring Getaway in Poteet

A Berry Sweet Spring Getaway in Poteet

Each year, as winter gives way to spring, the farm fields surrounding Poteet gleam with ruby red strawberries. The ... Read More »

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