Big Bend Yucca Company has emerged as a “success story in the native plant world,” says Michael Eason, who heads the San Antonio Botanical Garden’s rare-plant conservation program. The scale—more than 20,000 yuccas alone—and quality of Riley’s crops are what first caught Eason’s attention. “We could use fifty more people like Hoven growing native plants for the market—ideally they would have started twenty years ago.” Read more: https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/meet-yucca-whisperer-west-texas-big-bend/
Photograph by JoMando Cruz