Su-Yee Lin's "An Interlude: Pig River"

Third Place winner in the 2017 Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest

"...Pig farming back then had been different. A couple dozen pigs..."

June 9, 2017 Arts Feature by Su-Yee Lin

SXSW Panels: Woke Food

SXSW food track navigates contemporary food systems

"...cycle.” Think of biodynamic agriculture as organic plus, a farming method that is concerned with the natural life cycles..."

March 14, 2017 Food Post by Emily Beyda

Lozano Long Conference Turns Lens to Food Systems

Humberto Ríos Labrada to deliver keynote

"...across the Americas speaking about issues such as alternative farming styles, rights-oriented food movements, agroecological sustainability and action, and..."

Feb. 20, 2017 Food Post by Thea Newell

Sunset Song

A woman comes of age in this rugged Scottish saga set in the early 1900s

"...John (Peter Mullan, fearsomely brilliant). After tragedy befalls the farming family and John’s beatings have driven away his eldest..."

June 3, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rundberg Reblend

Groups remake North Austin neighborhood one bridge at a time

"...pushed north of 183, what's now Rundberg Lane was farming country. Now that farming tradition appears on one of..."

June 3, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Food-o-File: Early Edition

Planting seeds

"...the subjects of legalizing hemp, the bee crisis, urban farming, food safety laws, and more. “One of the exciting..."

Sept. 9, 2015 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Foodie Is an Ethnocentric Word

Searching for diversity in culinary Austin

"...generation city-dwellers whose roots were in the small black farming communities around Austin. His stepfather worked as a cook..."

April 17, 2015 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Three for District 2

Dove Springs media forum addresses southeast voters

"...each aforementioned issue as well a few others, including farming, and immigration issues such as the beleaguered Travis County..."

Sept. 11, 2014 News Post by Chase Hoffberger

Grab Your Partner and Circle East

Farmshare Austin to host Farm Raiser feast

"...Founded in 2012, Farmshare Austin aims to accelerate organic farming by offering on-farm education and training. Beginning October 1,..."

July 15, 2014 Food Post by Anna Toon

Let It Grow

The fifth annual East Austin Urban Farm Tour celebrates local farmers and chefs

"...reputation to this event in support of the local farming community and of the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance..."

April 11, 2014 Food Feature by Anna Toon

The Heart of the Community

SXSWedu gathers voices on schools in communities, communities in schools

"...learn given the right conditions." He compared education to farming: "You can throw great seed down, but if it's..."

Feb. 28, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Food Issue: Nice Tomatoes

The story behind the Eastside Green Tomato photo gallery

"...deeply rooted in generations of East Texas farmers. My dairy-farming grandfather, born and bred in Alba, Texas (pop. 503)..."

June 14, 2013 Chronolog Post

Phoenix Farms Rising

Kickstarter campaign raises funds for local farm

"...nearing 60 years old, in recent years the organic farming movement has experienced an uptick in younger people looking..."

April 11, 2013 Food Post by Anna Toon

Bless Me, Ultima

This honest, earnest, and naturalistic kids’ story about growing up Mexican-American in 1940s New Mexico is based on the popular book.

"...family scholar, while his father wants him to continue farming the land with him and his brothers (once they..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sustainable Beer

The secret about sustainable brewing is that it exists.

"...as possible." They even have plans to start organic farming on the property...."

Feb. 1, 2013 Food Feature by Ivy Le

Farmers Market Report: December 15

Let's take a look at the Sunday markets!

"...For those who aren’t deeply steeped in Austin Organic Farming History, Boggy Creek Farm practically singlehandedly started the sustainable..."

Dec. 15, 2012 Food Post by Kate Thornberry

Simon and the Oaks

This Swedish import is a family saga that's shaped by the looming Nazi invasion, forbidden love, and unsound decisions.

"...intellectual engagement, music, and sophistication, and his parents’ keep-it-simple farming lifestyle. There is the war, which impacts Simon and..."

Nov. 9, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Hemp farming was once a big industry, and during World War..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Big Food Ideas

Foodie intellectual Michael Pollan lectures at the Paramount

"...concept of diversified agriculture. A return to diversified peasant farming contributes not only to sustainable means of providing more..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Feed Your Belly and Your Brain!

SXSW Eco preview: Food & Agriculture

"...panel discusses the various relationships between technology and regional farming and food systems...."

Sept. 28, 2012 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Wine of the Week

A trio of wines from one of France's great vintners

"...of the world with his preferred mode of bio- dynamic farming. Two decades later, his outstanding collection of wines has..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Food Column by Wes Marshall

That Time of the Month

Christian Remde spans the calendar year with his Twelve Films Project

"...third documentary will focus on the resurgence of local farming. "All farms started out as local farms. Farming wasn't..."

July 15, 2011 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

LBB: Budget Kills 335,000 Jobs

GOP lawmakers ignore their own experts by pushing for cuts

"...Sector 2012 2013 Government 154,685 188,787 Private non-farming 117,061 146,457 Total 271,746 335,244..."

March 25, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Carbon Nation

Carbon dioxide emissions will be the death of us all unless we take steps to counteract the harm already done, says this new eco-doc.

"...and algae pools, geothermal and solar technologies, and green farming and building practices, hope builds that our problems may..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Checking All the Connections

Intersections of the inside and outside and queerness...

"...house yet worlds away. It's the antithesis to industrialized farming. It's intimate. It's real. It smells like manure and..."

Nov. 10, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Julie Gillis

Last Train Home

This small masterpiece of documentary filmmaking offers an intimate look at the impact of China’s industrial growth.

"...rebellious teenager who is weary of school and subsistence farming. She resents her parents, who, she feels, abandoned her..."

Oct. 29, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Luv Doc Recommends: Top Drawer's 17th Birthday Party

Top Drawer Thrift, Saturday, August 14, 2010

"...two is not only batshit crazy but illegal. Cotton farming is also problematic in that it involves farming cotton,..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Column by The Luv Doc

Back to the Future

At Sunday's East Austin Urban Farm Tour, you can experience a taste of Austin's past, the present, and an invaluable element in our future

"...which enabled Scherzer to pursue her real passion for farming. Then last year, Eastside Cafe co-owner Dorsey Barger and..."

April 9, 2010 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Back to the Future

Austin's agrarian past rises again

"...maintenance business continues, but the property is "morphing into farming more and more," according to Glenn. Summer crops are..."

April 9, 2010 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

The Crazies

A mysterious pollutant in their water supply is making the residents of a small Iowa town insane in this remake of George Romero's topical horror tale.

"...nuts. Unknown to the townspeople of the drowsy Midwestern farming community of Ogden Marsh, an experimental military bioweapon code-named..."

March 5, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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