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During the drought of 2011, yaupon was a beacon of green in a sea of brown on the family’s ranch near Cat Spring; it caught the attention of sisters JennaDee Detro and Abianne Falla in a “surely it’s got to be good for something” sort of…

Bob and Marilyn McDowell of Houston were looking for a 100-acre weekend getaway when they found Oak Hill Ranch near Round Top. The 1,000-acre working ranch has been their palette for creative restoration since 2008.

Despite the name, “lazy” isn’t part of the culture at the Lazy Bee Honey Co., the multi-faceted, farm-based business owned by Christi and Nathan Wade of Burton.

Rita Albers, owner of Cuts of Color flower farm near Weimar, specializes in growing happiness and giving joy.

When they were their early 20s, Lynsey and Jason Kramer, owners of Yonder Way Farm in Fayetteville, grappled with health issues normally associated with people decades older. Their journey to better health took them to an unexpected…

Gloria Schwarz Hickey was born in September, 1945 in El Paso while her father, Hilmer Schwarz, was stationed at Biggs Field. The young serviceman took his wife and new baby to their home in Round Top as soon as the baby was old enough to…

A more poetic writer might say, “the mists of time shrouded the Seward Plantation as I made my approach in mid-February.” I’m not poetic. It was fog. Dense, landmark-obliterating fog. Despite repeated assurance from my hosts that I…

Gloria Schwarz Hickey was born in September, 1945 in El Paso while her father, Hilmer Schwarz, was stationed at Biggs Field. She remained in far West Texas until her mother Eunice and she were strong enough to travel to Round Top where both…

Mary Louise Young is a moving target. The entrepreneur splits her time between her historic log home in Chappell Hill and Houston. She avoids Highway 290 whenever possible and scoots down the backroads in her Nissan 350z convertible.…

When Wiley and Cynthia George of Houston started looking for a country property, a listing on the National Register of Historic Places, as held by the Seward Plantation, was not one of the criteria. “We wanted something with easy access…