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BEST JERKY   Taylor Meat Company, Taylor As one of the oldest-known forms of preserved foodstuffs, jerky may be the original road food. It’s even traveled on the space shuttle—now THERE’S a road trip. Smoking, salting or marinating meat, then drying it, makes it much longer lasting, compact and lighter (refrigeration is required with some…

Containers filled with exotic looking plants can add zing to your garden

Ralph hogged the show at Aquarena Springs

Mark Simon, farm manager at Hilltop Gardens in the rural Lower Rio Grande Valley community of Lyford, can testify to the unexpected advantages of living and working close to 40 acres of aloe vera plants. “I burned my hand once, getting off of a piece of machinery,” he recalled, almost flinching at the memory of…

Rescuing the lost flowers of East Texas