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They Raffled Off Their Land for Next to Nothing. Why Did No One Win It?

DATE POSTED:February 20, 2026
Early in Jason and Katy Ballard’s relationship, Jason gifted his fellow UT law school classmate one of his Topsy Turvy upside down tomato planters. A Carrollton native, Jason had enjoyed a taste of farm life during visits to his grandfather’s four-hundred-acre farm in Bardstown, Kentucky, and he understood that Katy, who was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Houston, felt most at ease in nature despite her big-city upbringing. And that his fellow trail runner could beat him in any race down the Barton Creek Greenbelt.Faced with newfound time at their Leander home eight years later, during the pandemic, the now-married couple’s tomato-growing hobby sprouted into a salsa garden. They bought some chickens, what Katy considered “the most symbolic gesture” of their desire…

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