Real estate
BY ELISABETH JIMENEZ
Home Edition
2025
This year's Home Edition is packed with information to help you navigate the ever-changing world of homeownership. We're covering everything from energy audits and state property tax cuts to new housing legislation and residential market trends. Plus, get to know a local home decor mercantile on Main Street and discover useful tips for a summertime home cleanout. Delivering this important content is a team e ort. We're incredibly grateful to the home service professionals, remodelers, banks, insurance agents, realtors, and local businesses who advertise with us. Please support these community partners—they make it possible for us to keep San Marcos, Buda and Kyle informed, inspired, and connected.
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Locals turn to regenerative agriculture in times of drought
During rain events, water will rush through the swales and feed into the berms, hydrating the soil. Hays County resident and permaculturalist Annie Spade said incorporating native plant species can be bene cial for the landscape. She encourages experimenting with di erent plants to see what works best for an individual’s home. “That’s the beautiful thing about native plants— they will naturalize,” she said. “They will just live in the places that work for them.” The bigger picture Despite recent rainfall , drought conditions are projected to persist for at least the next three months, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Topiwala said regenerative agriculture is one easy way to positively impact a stressed environment. “There’s things that we can do at home that will have amazing impacts on the microclimate of your local environment,” he said.
In the wake of prolonged drought, Central Texans are rehydrating their land through practices such as regenerative agriculture. The background Regenerative agriculture focuses on restoring the environment by promoting biodiversity and rebuild- ing soil, said Kiran Topiwala, owner at Nurture Nature Regenerative Landscaping. Similar to xeriscaping—a landscaping approach focusing speci cally on water conservation through planting native, drought-tolerant species—regener- ative agriculture takes the practice a step further by “being proactive in the restoration of the environ- ment,” Topiwala said. How it works People can incorporate regenerative agriculture into their homes through low-tech systems such as berms—raised gardening mounds—and swales, the space between them, Topiwala said.
Berms and swales in gardens and backyards are just one example of utilizing regenerative agriculture.
Drought-tolerant plants
The following plants are perennial, drought- tolerant and deer-resistant. For sunlit areas For shaded areas
• Flame acanthus • Mistflower • Lantana • Skeleton leaf goldeneye
• Turks cap • Chili pequin • Beautyberry
SOURCE: PERMACULTURALIST ANNIE SPADE COMMUNITY IMPACT
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