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Backyard Composting 101: Converting food scraps to garden gold in Texas

Tons of food are discarded every year and end up in landfills—despite much of it being able to be used for something else. One of the simplest methods that Texans can combat food waste at home is by composting. By taking the peels of fruits, scraps of vegetables, and even used coffee grounds and transforming them into nutrient-rich soil, you’re saving the environment, as well as helping your garden.

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Cattlemen of Brown County

John Jefferson Driskill was a Texas cattleman in the 1870’s in Brown County. His sons; John Wiley, Jesse Lincoln, and Samuel Lafayette, were also cattlemen. Cattle ranchers led herds that sometimes numbered from 1000 to 6000 head. They went up the Chisum Trail that John Chisum blazed out and other trails and crossed the Red River, to go to Western Kansas. They had to deal with stampedes, storms, dry weather, lack of water, and Native Americans that sometimes wanted to steal the cattle or get them by threat of harm.

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