DailyTrib.com Support Community Press You can show your support of a vibrant and healthy free press by becoming a voluntary subscriber. Subscribe Now Bernadette Lingo and one of her three Great Pyrenees dogs, Willow, check on the nannies at her goat ranch just outside of Marble Falls. Lingo rides the range on an ATV with Willow loping along beside her. Staff photos by Suzanne Freeman
The best time of the year for goat rancher Bernadette Lingo of Marble Falls was just two weeks away as she tossed food across the fence line to her 25 pregnant nannies. The mamas were pinned up in a 20-acre corral, separated from the rest of her herd of about 35.
DailyTrib.com Support Community Press You can show your support of a vibrant and healthy free press by becoming a voluntary subscriber. Subscribe Now Sisters Meredith Holland Clowdus (left) and Donna Holland Wilcox with a Brahman bull on their family ranch in Marble Falls. The Holland land was originally purchased in 1848 for 47 cents an acre. Staff photo by Suzanne Freeman
Ranching is “a heritage thing” to sisters Donna Holland Wilcox and Meredith Holland Clowdus of Marble Falls. Their mixed Charolaise, Black Angus, and Brahman cows are descendants of a herd that began in 1947 when their grandparents Louise and Malcolm Holland began ranching.