Aug. 19, 2010 - Dave Reilly more or less hired himself as the winemaker at Duchman Family Winery. He was a grape grower with his own vineyard about five miles from the Duchman Winery (then Mondale Estates Winery) near Driftwood, in Hays County. He met winemaker Mark Pena when he showed up to sell some of his grapes to Pena.

Aug. 19, 2010 - As temperatures peak in the triple digits, it's time for livestock owners to pay special attention when caring for and transporting their animals.

Aug. 19, 2010 - Landowners with ponds on their property are stocking fish now that the ponds have water in them again. This year has helped replenish ponds that for the previous two years left many landowners without enough water to support fish.

August 12, 2010 - Monica Thomasson was a self-proclaimed city girl, but she always knew she wanted to be a part of the farm life. Three years ago, Thomasson, her husband and their three children moved to the town of Rusk in Cherokee County from Houston to do just that. They decided they would like to be a self-sustained operation -- raising their own eggs, dairy and meat.

August 12, 2010 - Jamey Gage's roots run deep in the Central Texas soil. His family helped settle the area in the 1820s and has spent much of its time since then engaged in one form of agriculture or another. Gage has taken the passion for growing things to eat and turned it into B-5 Farms, which is named after the family's old cattle brand that dates back to the 1880s.

August, 12, 2010 - Ron Gill's views on heavy metal music and the chemistry of heavy metals isn't a matter of record, but his views on heavy metals as they related to ranching are. Gill believes that too many people in the cattle business die of "heavy metal disease."

August 5, 2010 - Shelby Williams of Shelby's Equine TLC, has been around horses her entire life and at the tender age of 17, has decided rehabilitating the animals she loves will not only be her passion, but her career.

August 5, 2010 - Mosquito season is here, meaning farmers and ranchers need to be prepared to protect themselves and their livestock from mosquito-borne diseases like West Nile Virus.

August 5, 2010 - The climate and soils in certain parts of Texas have always been conducive to the growing of rice, which is why it has been grown in the state since the 1850s and commercially since the 1880s. Texas, along with Arkansas, California and Louisiana, produce about 90 percent of the rice grown in the United States.

August 5, 2010 - Many of Boggy Creek Farm's customers weren't yet born when Carol Anne Sayle and Larry Butler first began growing their own organic fruit and vegetables in 1982, at their place near Gause in Milam County. Boggy Creek was certified as an organic farm in 1991 -- one of the first in Central Texas.