Tag: Magazine Features
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Seed Money: Austin residents launch community garden with help from Texas Grants Resource Center
By Jessica Sinn • August 1, 2018 While mowing the vast fields surrounding St. John’s Episcopal Church, Hal Hughes often smiles to himself when he sees someone strolling along the spiraling pathway within the labyrinth garden. “I see a lot of familiar faces, but I also see people from the neighborhoods walking the gardens with their dogs and enjoying the…
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The Long Way Home: For Octavio Martinez, all roads to mental health equity led back to Texas
By Jessica Sinn • October 15, 2020 Growing up in a large military family, Dr. Octavio Martinez and his four younger brothers didn’t settle in one town for very long. But there was one place that always felt like home: their grandmother’s rural East Austin farmhouse. “I remember those summer days playing football out in the open, surrounded…