Adaptation should also involve growing less cattle feed in the Colorado River Basin, as much as many farmers don’t want to hear that. In the short term, a new federally funded program will pay farmers in California’s Imperial Valley — who use more Colora...
Food prices could come down or farmers’ meager incomes could go up. Maybe both. This helps to explain the spectacular growth of community-based food systems in recent years. More than one thousand communitysupported agricultural or horticultural operations are now operating in every state, linking...
A stork lays on a bit of wood, and then goes at his toilet again, looking around to see that other folks are busy. Year after year, a pair of storks will use the same nest, rebuilding, or repairing it, each spring time. The stork is a steady citizen and does not like to change....
until the 1890s, when the target buyers for the work trousers were carpenters, railroad workers, farmers, and miners—hence the gold nuggets. Today the small pocket remains a feature of all kinds of different jeans, a vestige of a time when jeans were strictly casual pants. These tiny pocke...