Historians consider 1936 the year that the Dust Bowl officially ended. Millions of tons of topsoil had been stripped from Great Plains farms. The country was still reeling from the Great Depression.
John Duarte, a California nursery owner who was sued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for plowing a wheat field without a Clean Water Act permit, has reached a $1.1 million settlement with the ...
In the early 1800s, pioneer families worked together on farms, learning essential agricultural skills from a young age. Children helped with chores, such as gathering eggs and feeding animals. Farmers ...
Interesting to see that the mainstream press and Congress have finally noticed the egregious overreach of federal agents in the sad case of Duarte versus the US Army Corps of Engineers. Farmer John ...
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What It Was Like to Be a Peasant in the Middle Ages
For a medieval farmer, life began before dawn. The rooster’s crow was the only alarm clock. He rose to the chill of morning, ate coarse bread and weak ale, and walked to the lord’s fields. As part of ...
While plowing a wheat field in rural Washington state in the 1990s, William Wallace spotted a gray plane overhead that he ...
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