A family homestead · near West, Texas
Fig & Vine Farm is a family homestead and teaching farm in Central Texas where we grow food, raise animals, preserve the harvest, make useful goods, and pass practical skills to the next generation.
— Celeste figs and Black Spanish grapes along the south fence, late September
The Farm
We are a working family homestead near West, Texas. Since 2015 the land has been built around food, animals, family, faith, stewardship, useful goods, and practical knowledge. This isn’t a picture of simple living. It is the work itself, gardens and orchards, Kunekune pigs and sheep, a flock of nearly everything with feathers, a canning kitchen, and loofah drying on the porch.
— Quiet afternoon, pigs tucked in by the shelter.
What we do · an index
Eight branches of one tree. Each entry opens into articles, goods, and the people doing the work.
Animals
Kunekune pigs, Barbados Blackbelly sheep, chickens, geese, a peahen named Penny, and the cats and dogs who supervise. How we keep them and what we’ve learned, one animal at a time.
See every animal →
— Saffron, supervising from the top of the fence line.
In the Kitchen
When the tomatoes come in all at once, the kitchen becomes the whole farm for a week. Recipes, canning notes, pantry inventory, and the mistakes we only made once.
From the recipe box
Placeholder Recipe: Garden Herb Butter
Faith & Stewardship
“The land was here before us and will be here after. Our part is to leave it better, and to leave people who know how.”
From the Farm Journal
A layoff and a move from Louisiana brought our family to five-plus acres in Central Texas—and into a life we never plan to leave.
Cooler Texas weather brings the start of our fall rabbit-breeding rhythm, with six TAMUK Composite does moving through a steady rotation.
