Pima Cotton Growing at Bingham Farm
The first blossoms for the year are forming in the cotton. This is early for us for them to appear compared to other years. This flower is from our organic pima cotton.
Texas organic cotton farmers to receive Organic Leadership Award | OTA
Thanks to a pioneering group of forward-thinking farmers, organic cotton production in Texas has expanded from virtually nothing in the early 1990s to over 20,000 acres in 2015, making the Texas High Plains the largest organic cotton-growing region in the United...
Vincent Manufacturing in Little Falls, New York uses our organic cotton
Here is an interesting look at one of our organic cotton buyers who buys our cotton through Texas Organic Cotton Marketing Cooperative. They manufacture cotton material to be used in furniture and bedding specializing in recycled cotton and in organic cotton. Fourth...
Edible Austin
We’re still here. Just chugging away on the farm. Edible Austin’s spring issue has an article about our family written by Jessica Dupuy. Here are some pictures that Amanda Grace took for the article. Not much to see in the fields this time of year, but...
More from the Cotton Research Center
Dr. Jane Dever shows us around the test plots where she and her staff are working to develop cotton varieties with traits that are beneficial for organic production.
Organic Cotton Growing on the High Plains
We have been so busy with grape harvest that I haven’t been here too often. Sometimes it is just very hard to live life and actually have time to comment on it. This morning I was out with the grape harvest, hanging on to the big blue harvester precariously with...
Organic Cotton
I have been working on a post about using a hedger in the vineyard, but I can’t seem to get it all ready. I even have brix counts that I need to post. So for tonight (hmmm, seems to be early morning actually), here are a few pictures of the organic cotton. More...
One lonely cotton plant
One lonely cotton plant in a West Texas vineyard… This really is a strange site. First all most of the plants you see here are grape vines. Dormant from the winter, the plants look like sticks without leaves on them tied to metal and bamboo poles and wires. But then …...