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Author Archives: Josie Seeligson

Josie Seeligson earned a B.S. from Vanderbilt University and an M.A. in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. She has worked as a freelance writer, copy editor and copy writer for various San Antonio and Austin publications and businesses, and on the staff and board of Gemini Ink. She also manages a wholesale tree nursery, Pajarito Tree Farm, in Pandora, Texas, and resides in San Antonio.

Mike Casey taps an agarita bush with a bamboo pole to dislodge the berries onto the sheet below. Photo by Josie Seeligson.
Posted inArts & Culture, Gov & Politics, Lifestyle

San Antonio’s Springtime Forage: Agarita and Dewberries

Avatar photo by Josie Seeligson April 19, 2015January 31, 2020

Spring road trips with our grandmother meant piling into her green ‘72 Chevy Impala and driving to the small Texas town of Giddings, her birthplace brimming with German relatives. Her sister lived nearby on a farm that beckoned as the family gathering spot. There, my own sister and I scampered with cousins making straw forts […]

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