Winfield Farm outside of Bastrop is a thriving family business, sustainable in a very real and practical way. The four members of the Hough family prove that it does not take very much land to grow an abundance of food using ecologically harmonious methods. The key to their success is doing a little bit of everything, and tying it all together with their licensed, certified commercial kitchen.
an egg-laying hen at Rain Lily Farm
When your farm sits in the heart of a residential neighborhood, bordered by an elementary school and surrounded by urban activity, it’s only natural that you and your land would become a hub of the community. And when your farm is a small one, measuring crops in square feet rather than square acres, community is a vital way to remain profitable. Community runs deeply through all aspects of Rain Lily Farm in east Austin.
We love to keep a vase of flowers on the kitchen table to brighten things up. I took these pretties out into the yard for a quick picture before heading out for an assignment.
