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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...
39) 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...
