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Country Cookin': Homemade Kolaches

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Homemade Kolaches: Warm risen dough filled with cream cheese or fruit

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Philip Nolan and All the Pretty Horses

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Not only could wild horses not keep Philip Nolan away from Texas in the 1790s, they were the reason he kept coming back and the reason he died here. Other more nefarious motives have been suggested as the real reasons for his Texas expeditions, but we believe now that Philip Nolan was here for the horses.

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Juan Seguin: A Foreigner In His Native Land

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Someone once described Juan Seguin as the Forrest Gump of Texas history. That wasn't meant to imply that Seguin was a simpleton, only that he showed up at iconic moments in the state's history. How many Texians could say they were at the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto? Juan Seguin could. Or how many Texian veterans of those battles would soon after the war be branded a traitor?
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Descendant of frontier Texas naturalist catches eye of USDA with work in aquaculture field

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Shawn Bishop is following in some big footsteps. He is a direct descendant of frontier Texas naturalist Gideon Lincecum, who first observed and wrote about Texas flora and fauna in the early 1800s. Lincecum corresponded with Charles Darwin about the agricultural ant (more commonly known today as the harvester ant or red ant) and recorded the Choctaw tribe’s language and traditions in the Choctaw’s own language.
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One Big Hoppy Family: Pankow clan gets the most out of their single-acre farm by raising rabbits

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The move from the Dallas suburbs to Kountze in Southeast Texas was not that far in terms of actual mileage but a world away all the same for Shannon Pankow and her family. The Pankows found themselves four miles from the nearest small town and 20 miles from the nearest big town.
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Crops Gone Wild: Recent study inventories more than 4,600 wild relatives of U.S. agricultural crops

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The fact that we now know how many crop wild relatives there are in the United States might be news to some, especially those who have never heard the term. As their name implies, crop wild relatives are related to domesticated crops, forages and herbs but they grow wild.
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Bloomin’ Onions: Jobe Gardens offers an heirloom product that reminds many of the way onions used to taste

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Cajuns know a thing or two about food so it's not surprising that Stanley Jobe came across the multiplying onions he grows by way of Louisiana. He grew up in Orange, Texas, not far from the Cajun wilds, where his father, Edward Stanley Jobe, worked for the DuPont Chemical Corporation.
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Old School: From mules to microchips, Frank Griffin has witnessed the evolution of farming for decades

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Anybody who has been to Stiles Farm near Thrall in Williamson County over the last half century might have met Frank Griffin — he’s been working there since well before the establishment of the Stiles Farm Foundation in 1961.
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Oak wilt disease hits Texas hardest

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Spring is a season of peril for Texas' oak trees. That's when the tiny beetles that transmit the dreaded oak wilt disease are the most active and when the trees are at their most vulnerable. It's also a time when people need to refrain from pruning or otherwise wounding oaks because doing so creates an opening for the beetles to inflict their damage.

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