projects

starlove ranch

Starlove Ranch is the experiment of two devout vegans converting their family’s seventh-generation Texas cattle ranch to a permaculture farm, animal sanctuary, and holistic land restoration project.

Passionate about environmental stewardship and animal welfare, Hollie and Davey Schacherl are attempting to design the blueprint for a humane alternative to traditional beef cattle ranching that is financially and environmentally sustainable. Thus far, the road has been a tumultuous one lined with uncertainty, personal loss, isolation, and exhaustion — but also with poignant beauty, progress, and deep belief in the work and mission.

Over the coming two decades, many young urbanites -- more interested in sustainability and climate change than beef ranching -- will inherit family ranches from their parents and grandparents. As of 2017, Texas was home to an estimated 100,000 ranches covering 125,000 square miles. At the same time, the average age of a Texas rancher was 59 and rising.

found

The tiny, delicate treasures of childhood are innumerable.

This project is a loving tribute to the quiet poetry of time spent in nature — through portraits of fleeting, minute wonders nestled in the tender palms of children.

barton springs

Once a spiritual oasis for native people, Austin’s Barton Springs is now visited by nearly a million people each year. Still, only a few handfuls of loyal swimmers are truly “regulars.” These are the swimmers who arrive before dawn to swim the pool’s chilly quarter-mile laps or take healing soaks in the sapphire elixir that has been thought to cure human ailments for the past 10,000 years. 

The regulars stand out from the rest of us in the way they quietly blend into the surroundings. So comfortable here that they almost present as part of the fabric of the place itself.

1000 hours

The average American elementary-schooler spends over 1,000 hours per year in front of a screen. At the same time, experts across the globe warn of the mental and physical health effects associated with the decrease in free outdoor play among children.

What happens if the "Kill Your Television" movement of the 1980s is applied to modern devices and put into the hands of today's tech-generation youth?