Sign Our Petition

 We need your help to stop Tex Mix Concrete from mining in Bastrop County’s Wilbarger Bend, where  three organic farms have been producing vegetables, meat, and cut flowers since 2009. Mining has already begun but we can pressure the company to use best practices and set aside undisturbed land that will buffer residents and farms from dust, noise, light, and groundwater depletion. l

This petition is not just about protecting this area’s farmland — disappearing at 16-acres-per-day — but your continued enjoyment birding, canoeing, hiking, and fishing along one of the last undeveloped bends on the Bastrop-Austin Colorado River Corridor. The river bottomlands provide reliable water and deep fertile sandy loam that is critical for local vegetable production. Unlike Travis Country, very few parcels of prime farmland in Bastrop County have been set aside for conservation easements.

The Texas Legislature has begun a  new session. We need to send a loud message to state representatives that maintaining the hands-off status quo for aggregate mining is no longer an option. Break-neck growth, climate change, and skyrocketing land values make it imperative that prime farmland is set aside for so future generations won't be threatened by lack of food security, polluted water, and loss of natural habitat. 

Petition Coming Soon.