Texas is not a state you can cover the way you cover Tennessee. It is farther from Texarkana to El Paso than it is from Memphis to Chicago, and the growing country changes about four times on the way. So we do it the only honest way we know: one city, one hour’s drive, one ring at a time.
Two rings are open. North Texas came in around Dallas and Fort Worth — blackland east of Dallas where the peaches and the pumpkins are, and pasture south and northwest of Fort Worth where the milk and the meat are. The upper Gulf Coast came in around Houston, where the ground splits between coastal prairie on the south and west side and piney woods on the north.
21 farms between the two rings, every one of them read off its own website or Facebook page before it went in. Neither ring crosses a state line — there is enough Texas inside an hour of both cities — so every farm on these pages is a Texas farm, listed in the town it actually sits in.
A ring is drawn by drive time, not by county line, and in Texas an hour is a different distance on every freeway — an hour west of Houston gets you to Sealy, an hour south gets you past Alvin with room to spare.
And the standing rule, on every page of this thing: call or check their own page before you drive out.
Blackland prairie on the Dallas side, cross timbers and pasture on the Fort Worth side — peaches out of Terrell, licensed raw milk out of Cleburne and Farmersville, and choose-and-cut trees south of the metroplex.
One ring, and it carries two cities. Which side of the metroplex you live on decides your Saturday more than the mileage does.
Coastal prairie south and west of Houston, piney woods to the north — strawberries at Alvin in the winter, blueberries at Conroe in the summer, and a fall season heavy enough to carry the rest of the year.
One ring so far, and it runs on the calendar harder than any ring we have. Check the year on the website before you check the hours — a March freeze took the 2026 blueberries out at Conroe, and more than one of these pages still had last season posted when we read it.
Farther out — Galveston County, the Brazos bottom, Beaumont — comes next, one ring at a time.
The Hill Country around Austin and San Antonio, East Texas up through Tyler and the piney woods, South Texas and the Valley, and the Plains out past Lubbock and Amarillo — all still empty here, and we would rather leave them empty than fill them with farms we have not read.
Know the country out there? Tell us who to call.
Every farm on this page is here because somebody read its own words and wrote them down. If that’s your farm and we got something wrong — or if you’re not on here at all — we want to hear from you. No fee, no ads, no catch.