Focus on Texas: Harvest

We got a bumper crop—gigantic cabbage, delicious blueberries and heavy machinery gathering grain

By Grace Arsiaga January 2019

Amanda Childress, Cherokee County EC: “This is some of our homegrown produce from raised beds that my husband built. We were lucky to get this much before the heat and drought this year.”

Alan Kirby, Cherokee County EC: Kirby, his wife, Rebecca, and the 1959 John Deere he inherited. “I have been growing gardens my entire life in Cherokee County. This was my best year ever. I had a 21-pound return for each pound of seed potatoes planted.”

Courtney Wilde, Magic Valley EC: Granger and Bristol get ahead of the pickers to collect their share of cotton.

Sharon Black-Greene, Pedernales EC: Last fall, Black-Greene planted two artichokes and a cardoon. The three plants were protected from the deer and winter chill, surviving to flower.

Amanda Childress, Cherokee County EC: “This is some of our homegrown produce from raised beds that my husband built. We were lucky to get this much before the heat and drought this year.”

Web Extra: Dee Young, Bartlett EC: “Harvester filling the hopper nonstop while both travel downfield alongside each other.”

Web Extra: Ruthie Zarate, South Plains EC: Tatum Zarate, 8-month-old granddaughter of Andy and Ruthie Zarate, tries her hand at picking peas with her mother for a local farmers market.

Web Extra: Cheryle Larson, Trinity Valley EC: “Kitchen counters stay covered each summer with bountiful blessings from the North Texas Blackland Prairie.”

Web Extra: Sherry Levesque, Sam Houston EC: “Our 3-year-old grandson, Noah, was so proud of his carrots. This was his first time planting seeds and seeing what they produce.”