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What Texas Teaches You About Survival

Growing vegetables and fruit in Central Texas is a lot like being an American 250 years into this experiment.
What Texas Teaches You About Survival
Some pear trees are self-pollinating but others are not. Pixel-Shot
Mollie Engelhart
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When I moved to Central Texas, I was immediately struck by how little vegetable farming was happening. Not small backyard gardens. Not serious orchards. Not diversified crop systems. Almost all visible agriculture had disappeared, replaced by sprawling homes, decorative landscapes, and endless Bermuda grass.

Mollie Engelhart
Mollie Engelhart
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Mollie Engelhart, regenerative farmer and rancher at Sovereignty Ranch, is committed to food sovereignty, soil regeneration, and educating on homesteading and self-sufficiency. She is the author of “Debunked by Nature”: Debunk Everything You Thought You Knew About Food, Farming, and Freedom—a raw, riveting account of her journey from vegan chef and LA restaurateur to hands-in-the-dirt farmer, and how nature shattered her cultural programming.