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Farm to Summit makes dehydrated meals using ‘cosmetically challenged’ veggies
I’m always on the prowl for good dehydrated meals to take on camping and backpacking trips. I’ve long been a fan of Austin-based Packit Gourmet, which makes my hands-down favorite just-add-water dish - Dottie’s Chicken and Dumplings. But during a trip to Telluride for...
Endurance paddler Freya Hoffmeister looking for partner to paddle Central America
Got a sea kayak and a few weeks to burn? German endurance paddler Freya Hoffmeister is looking for someone – perhaps a Texan - who can meet her in Costa Rica and paddle for a few weeks, as she makes her way toward the Panama Canal. Hoffmeister, who is paddling all the...
Meet the new baby porcupines at the Austin Nature and Science Center
Porcupines, known as porcupettes, look vaguely like prickly little potatoes when they’re born. They’re smaller than a fist, and already covered with quills, which harden within a few hours of birth. But as the weeks pass, they grow into lumbering, vegetation-munching...
This is the best place to find shells in Texas – but you can’t drive there
I discovered the best place to find shells in Texas, but you can’t get there by car. To reach the stretch of Matagorda Beach where I found handfuls of lightning whelks and lettered olive shells, you’ll have to either paddle across the Colorado River, where it opens...
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