La Cuna Center

La Cuna Center A 501(c)(3) arts and ecology nonprofit. Creative work for better living in the Texas Hill Country.

06/09/2026

From visual artists, to filmmakers, to musicians and poets, we love all those sensitive souls helping us feel and see the world around us. Work shown by

Our prairie restoration areas are going through their plant succession just as hoped and expected. Starting with severe ...
06/08/2026

Our prairie restoration areas are going through their plant succession just as hoped and expected. Starting with severe drought + overgrazing when we purchased the property we had almost no grasses - just dust and cactus. We began seeing healing the first year with annual forbs and opportunistic natives like lots of bitter sneeze w**d, prairie tea, lovegrass, some partridge pea, ragw**d, plenty of wildflowers and so forth. That first year was about letting these “w**dy plants” shade soil, fix nitrogen, and stop erosion. By year two many of our fields became dominated by first tier grasses like purple threeawn and we started seeing more grass and forb varieties in the shade. Year three was a sideoats grama explosion and we gained a bit more structural diversity (ground hugging runners, a low, and mid layer). This year I’m so proud of these shoulder tall stands of silver bluestem (pic #1) building our height layer alongside more little bluestem ( #2) and southern sea oats ( #3). All along we’ve been “cheating/helping” by trying to nurse in grasses from the final tier of a mature prairie: Indian grass, big bluestem, switchgrass, eastern gama grass ( #4). This year with the rains and our healing soils, those are finally taking and going to seed in several places. On the final slide you can see the succession clearly - the foreground shows an area disturbed by our septic install 8 months ago growing the first year w**dy cover and above the white line is the fourth year prairie. It has been super fun to learn to read the land and watch not only the return of the plant species, but also the insane variety of birds and pollinators. Walking on the soil has gone from rock hard compaction to now spongy loams that are holding so much water!

A lovely piece by our creative writing resident, Edward Oak. ‘Art is a Place.’ Thanks to everyone and in Art, TX for lo...
06/06/2026

A lovely piece by our creative writing resident, Edward Oak. ‘Art is a Place.’ Thanks to everyone and in Art, TX for loving our six residents this past year. The local communities have become the most fun part of what we are doing.

06/04/2026

Falling in love with our new community of systems-fightin’-friends! ✊ I’m so encouraged by all the people around us eager to love their places and their communities well in their own ways. Let’s keep encouraging each other y’all, because it is so easy to live busy, distracted, and convenient.

Want to come lift heavy-ish stones and shovel gravel with me for no pay? You might learn something, but it’s unlikely yo...
05/26/2026

Want to come lift heavy-ish stones and shovel gravel with me for no pay? You might learn something, but it’s unlikely you’ll ever need it again. If that sounds like fun I can provide food, beverage, tunes on a borrowed turtlebox, and very pretty flowers for your viewing pleasure. Saturday 05/30 - Message me if interested.

We want to thank everyone for the impact of our spring campaign, After the Rain. Starting with commissioning work last s...
05/20/2026

We want to thank everyone for the impact of our spring campaign, After the Rain. Starting with commissioning work last summer from our amazing artists , we’ve spread a message of healthier land management practices for our region. In addition to a three month exhibition, we hosted two regional conferences delivering 7.5hrs. of education to 101 participants (that’s 757 education hrs y’all!). Our work traveled around the region through a short documentary film by the wonderful which earned a spot in a UT film festival. We were able to take the show the Bullock State History museum and capitol mall where 350 people engaged with issues of drought and flood in the Hill Country. We hosted a creative writer , who spent the spring studying the region for some upcoming writing pieces. And finally, our very own Johnny Appleseed, , brought these ideas (and a lot of fun) to the streets of Manhattan with .
We’re so proud of the impact our little start up nonprofit is having as we enter the second year. Thank you all for your support. So many thanks to: Steve Nelle,

05/18/2026

Sometimes doing nothing is the best design choice. For this patio at La Cuna, we only added a small fire pit made from site-gathered granite and a couple of chairs. Nothing was planted, because my garden design skills can’t compete with nature when it’s thriving.

Reading nook almost complete. Just have to build a little cocktail/coffee table. But reading in a field of wildflowers i...
05/17/2026

Reading nook almost complete. Just have to build a little cocktail/coffee table. But reading in a field of wildflowers is pretty great!

Notes from a May morning. A rancher last weekend said, “The Hill Country is in her wedding dress.”
05/15/2026

Notes from a May morning. A rancher last weekend said, “The Hill Country is in her wedding dress.”

Notes from a May morning. A rancher said last weekend, “The Hill Country is in her wedding dress”.
05/15/2026

Notes from a May morning. A rancher said last weekend, “The Hill Country is in her wedding dress”.

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Art, TX
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