This issue of Texas Hill Country Magazine is available to read with an online subscription. See the same pages as in the print edition with all the stories, photos, and more.
Kayte and Justin Graham take a decidedly green approach when it comes to pork production at their Zanzenberg Farm in Center Point.
Instead of keeping their hogs in close quarters, they allow them to roam freely in grazing pastures to take advantage of Mother Nature’s bounty. The Grahams say the animals benefit from vitamin D supplied by the sun along with minerals from the soil and nutrition from a variety of plants that combine to create a natural “salad.” Ironically, pigweed ranks h ...
A trip out to the lavender farm is a big part of Blanco’s annual Lavender Festival.
This year’s featured farm, Hill Country Lavender, is celebrating its fourteenth year of operation with a new location at the intersection of FM 165 and FM 2325.
The young plants on the new farm have reached their first year of maturity; the lovely lavender flowers enjoyed by many for their beauty and valued for their many uses as well, have begun blooming.
“There is a second field nearby and we act ...
My Nonnie handing me peach, fresh and warm from the tree. The tall tales of the heat of my Papa’s peppers. The sun, hot on my back, as I rummaged among the vines for cucumbers in my Grandma’s garden. Shucking the sweet corn my Pawpaw raised, hidden amongst the field corn.
Armfuls of orange marigolds, yellow clasping coneflowers, pink yarrow and pastel delphiniums fill plastic buckets in the open-air packing shed at Arnosky Family Farms, located on FM 2325 east of Blanco. On towel-covered tables, Pamela Arnosky and an assistant work on an overcast June afternoon, hand bunching long stems together to create colorful Texas Garden Bouquets.
Staying at the Lazy J’s Ranch Guest Cottages is like taking a trip back in time, but with all the modern conveniences you’d like.
This quiet, expansive retreat is located 11 miles southeast of Goldthwaite and you have to travel a few miles on a dirt road to get there so you know it’s definitely off the beaten path.
The two cottages are on a 50-acre ranch named for owners Jeannie Rollo and John Sumner, former Austinites who have had the ranch since 2007.
The name of ranch may be La ...
The Central Texas peach crop is abundant this year despite enduring early and late freezes, heavy rain and recent strong storms.
According to the Hill Country Fruit Council, the 2019 peach crop is very strong. Several stands have the white-fleshed peach in now. Varieties are a week or two earlier than normal, as the first Freestone, Harvester, began ripening the first week of June.
According to experts, most of the Hill Country fruit is ripening, and it’s a bumper crop, according to are ...
Dripping Springs & Bee Cave
Lone Star Farmers Market
Dripping Springs - Saturdays 4pm-8pm, Rain or Shine. Treaty Oak Distilling, 16604 Fitzhugh Rd, Dripping Springs, TX 78620
Bee Cave - Sundays, 10am-2pm, Rain or Shine, Hill Country Galleria, 12700 Hill Country Blvd., Bee Cave, TX 78738, For more info, visit www.lonestarfarmersmarket.com, email at [email protected] or call (512) 924-7503
Boerne
The Farmers Market at the Cibolo - Boerne, Saturdays, 9am-1pm For more info, ...
If you combine food, friends and fun – topped with great music in a glorious setting, one would have the ingredients for a wonderful weekend May 18-19 in the scenic Texas Hill Country.
The locale will be the 12th annual Cherokee Creek Music Festival at Kelcy and Amy Warren’s San Saba County retreat near Cherokee off Hwy 501 nestled among pure waterfalls and wildflowers.
This year’s musical lineup will feature alternative country rock band Reckless Kelly of Austin as well as popular ...
In a cozy stone cottage about eight miles outside of Llano, one of the most unique artists in Texas creates mesmerizing masterpieces.
Ira Kennedy’s current art is unique and fascinating. You can’t just walk by one of his paintings—they catch your eyes and grab your imagination. Hill Country residents will recognize many of Ira’s subjects, from a longhorn by a creek to fields of bluebonnets to Enchanted Rock.
Consider one he just finished: The Road Home.
“The classic motif in b ...
There are 254 counties in the State of Texas, in each of those counties a town serves as the county seat. And at the center of them all, stands a courthouse, erected to serve the people of those communities. Texas has more historic courthouses than any other state; there are approximately 234 still standing that are at least 50 years old.
Law dictates that counties must build a “convenient building for hold courts”, which included space for courtrooms, office buildings and other rooms s ...
