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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Southwest Colorado at the beginning of the 20th century was frontier territory, the last of the wild west. Native populations were replaced by prospectors, cowboys and lumberjacks. Homesteaders were warned away from the area by the government, the land was a desert, too dry for farming, too wild for families.In 1927, Bessie White’s family lost their Kansas farm to a tax sale and were forced to flee to Canada to find work. Desperate to return to...
3) Dry farming: a guide to farming crops without irrigation in climates with low rainfall and drought
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Description
John Andreas Widtsoe demonstrates an immense knowledge of soil and farming conditions; much of the advice in this classic manual remains useful and relevant to this day. An excellent collection of knowledge is united in this guidebook, which commences by setting out the concept and core principles of dry farming. Much of the Earth is covered by land which receives only modest rainfall each year; coupled with a lack of an underground water source and/or...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
A blanket of wind-deposited silt, called loess, has supported dense populations of dry farmers in southwestern Colorado for centuries. The loess is thickest and most extensive on the Great Sage Plain between Cortez and Dove Creek, the largest and most productive dry farming area in the Southwest since prehistoric times. Loess deposits on the Mesa Mountains, including Mesa Verde and adjacent uplands in southeastern Utah, have also been cultivated by...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Description
This is the story of a boy growing up in a small farming community on the eastern plains of Colorado. Although he had hopes of becoming a farmer like his parents, he went on to earn his PhD in Agronomy/Biochemistry and spent much of his career helping subsistence farmers in the dry regions of the world improve crop yields. His life took many twists and turns along the way, as he followed his passions in farming, science and later country music. Filled...