Farmers Market Report: June 22-23, 2013

Melons, corn, peppers!

"...The first melons of the year are beginning to..."

June 21, 2013 Food Post by Kate Thornberry

The Gentlemen

Guy Ritchie insists on ruining our fond memories of Snatch

"...where the underworld is a literal one of subterranean farms harvesting illicit weed beneath England’s centuries-old manors. Above ground,..."

Jan. 24, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Day Trips

Get your thrill and Edom too at Blueberry Hill Farms

"...Blueberry Hill Farms outside of Edom is the high altar of the..."

June 6, 2014 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

God's Steward at the TNRCC

In Barry McBee's Environment, Politics and Religion Mix

"...1989, he moved to Washington to work in the Bush White House as the associate director of cabinet affairs...."

Jan. 16, 1998 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Page Two

Bush's proposed economic reforms highlight the divide between Republican theory and practice.

"...Early on in this administration, Bush made his priorities clear, passing the largest farm supports..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column by Louis Black

The Hightower Lowdown

Look out: Bush is "revising standards" again; and the tax man is out to get the poor millionaires of Darien, Conn.

"...out of our nation's capital these days are: "The Bush administration has announced revised standards for ...."..."

Jan. 10, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower

Windmill State of Mind

A Q&A with the authors of a new book on the story behind Texas wind power

"...new book, The Great Texas Wind Rush: How George Bush, Ann Richards, and a Bunch of Tinkerers Helped the..."

Aug. 23, 2013 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...it," prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration appears to be suffering from buyer's remorse –..."

Aug. 12, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...So nice to see other certified organic farms listed as sources for vegetable crops ["Second Helpings," Nov...."

Nov. 8, 2002 Column

Naked City

"...Last month the Bush administration asked the Qatar government to "rein in" the..."

Nov. 23, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Postmarks

The dog-running controversy continues … and chalk another one up for Ventura.

"...Once again, Gov. Bush has demonstrated what he means by "compassionate conservativism": He..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Column

Day Trips

J P Seven Christmas Trees is known for being a good distance out in the country and for having wonderfully fragrant and thick trees

"...trees. His was one of the first commercial Christmas-tree farms in Texas. Most retail tree farms are within 10..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...North America by buying renewable energy credits from wind farms. The grocer claims that this is the largest wind-credit..."

Jan. 13, 2006 News Feature

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...in our country's ongoing struggle against terrorists. Even though Bush's election was a little tarnished, with the Supreme Court..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

Not Clucking Around

East Texas chicken magnate Bo Pilgrim wants a state permit to build a bigger chicken slaughterhouse and waste disposal facility -- right across the creek from Sen. Bill Ratliff's in-laws' vacation home.

"...are unlikely foes. Both are conservative, pro-business, pro-George W. Bush Republicans who live within a few miles of each..."

Nov. 3, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Coal Hard Cash

Alcoa has applied for a mining application in Elgin, near Austin.

"...post office, a cotton gin, and a few family farms (one of them belonging to Hobbs' grandmother), the community..."

Sept. 3, 1999 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...changed his tune when he was wounded by an ambush. I remember getting dysentery, leeches, and strange rashes. I..."

May 30, 2003 Column

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...contest by someone who would complain no matter what Bush did that day. Ventura is apparently one of the..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Column

Review: Archive Theater's A Sherlock Holmes Christmas

Should you welcome this Holmes for the holidays with seasonal cheer?

"...that the show is being held in Jourdan-Bachman Pioneer Farms' charming, century-old, wooden Wessels Hall. Holmes' 221B Baker Street..."

Dec. 2, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...for the most part, regardless of the posturing of Bush and the daily headlines to appease the masses. It..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Column

Endorsements

"...of the Chronicle are familiar with Gov. George W. Bush's dreadful record on the environment, abortion rights, children's health..."

Oct. 20, 2000 News Feature

Media Clips

Two Fox reporters, fired by a Tampa station for their report on the continued use of the controversial recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone, are coming to Austin to tell their tale.

"...1997, the husband-and-wife investigative team randomly visited seven dairy farms in Florida, and found that all seven were using..."

Feb. 4, 2000 News Column by Lee Nichols

Fatal Error

Hooked on Drug Money

"...days were numbered since 1989, the year then-President George Bush waved a bag of crack on TV. Seated in..."

Dec. 25, 1998 News Feature by Monte Paulsen

The Last Mountain

The case against mountaintop mining in the Coal River Valley of West Virginia in made in this passionate documentary.

"...made legal at the outset of the George W. Bush administration in a quid pro quo with the mining..."

July 15, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Farmer and The Grill: A Guide to Grilling, Barbecuing and Spit-Roasting Grassfed Meat and for Saving the Planet One Bite at a Time

Farmer Shannon Hayes shares grass-fed knowledge, and all your local meat is here

"...family raise, slaughter, and sell grass-fed livestock at Sap Bush Hollow Farm in upstate New York. This is her..."

July 4, 2008 Food Review by Virginia B. Wood

Day Trips

At the pick-your-own Blueberry Palace outside Nacogdoches, it's one in the bucket and one in your mouth

"...The Blueberry Place outside Nacogdoches doesn't have blueberry bushes; it has blueberry trees. And this is shaping up..."

May 23, 2008 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...some 40 contributions reported, only two went to President Bush. In West Austin's tony 78703 neighborhoods, the overwhelming majority..."

April 2, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Hightower's Hoedown

Jim Hightower's Rolling Thunder Down-Home Democracy Tour kicks off in Austin.

"...campaign finance movement. On March 27, President George W. Bush signed into a law a bill banning soft money..."

March 29, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Quote of the Week"When [George W. Bush] was speaking about the terrible loss of life that..."

Aug. 19, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

The Hightower Report

Bush's long vacation benefits America; his Ag Department pick ain't exactly a family farmer.

"...problems that our nation faces. Worse, the criticism stung Bush so much that his aides now say that he..."

Aug. 30, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

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