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Author Walker, Pamela, 1949-

Title Growing good things to eat in Texas [electronic resource] : profiles of organic farmers and ranchers across the state / by Pamela Walker ; photographs by Linda Walsh.

Imprint College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2009.

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Edition 1st ed.
Description xiii, 167 p. : col. ill, map.
Series Texas A & M University agriculture series ; no. 11
Texas A & M University agriculture series ; no. 11.
Note Includes index.
Contents Fruit and vegetables -- South Tex organics: Dennis Holbrook's journey from pharmaceutical to organic farming -- Boggy Creek Farm: the art of urban farming -- Tecolote Farm: where the South meets the West -- Animal farm: how Gita Vanwoerden accidentally became a vegetable farmer -- Home sweet farm: making American dreams come true -- Shrimp and meat -- Permian Sea Organics: aquaculture in the desert -- Rehoboth Ranch and Windy Meadows Farm: for the love of god and family -- Ross Farm: learning to listen to the whispers of nature -- Dairy and cheese -- Pure Luck Farm and Dairy: from the first generation to the second -- Full Quiver Farm and Dairy: how the Sams family saved its farm and sustained a way of life.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Organic farming -- Texas.
Organic farmers -- Texas -- Biography.
Family farms -- Texas.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Walsh, Linda (Linda M.)
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781603441070 (flexbound with flaps : alk. paper)
1603441077 (flexbound with flaps : alk. paper)
9781603443418 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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