#dryfarming

[vulturehill]

11 year-old #Gravenstein on #P18.⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #dryfarming #notill #nospray #organicorchard #vulturehill⁣ https://www.instagram.com/p/CLvRuCJlVPm/?igshid=191dial1mwxx1

[goalbustersconsulting]

Look who we caught up with at the #Phoenix #SkyHarbor airport! It’s the famous #Hopi #farmer - #grower @sueksek Follow her amazing @instagram account. #farming #dryfarming #Arizona (at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvkotzMH79m/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=8zezu9wgmeup

[goalbustersjim]

Look who we caught up with at the #Phoenix #SkyHarbor airport! It’s the famous #Hopi #farmer - #grower @sueksek Follow her amazing @instagram account. #farming #dryfarming #Arizona (at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvkol9cny3i/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1pgqd92ogkjkl

[saunterling]

Statice/ bachelors buttons/ strawflower lookin' good if you ignore the weeds. These guys have only been watered once since getting transplanted and I'm quite impressed that they're still showing no signs of stress. They'll be used in garlic braids, garlands, everlasting bouquets, wreaths and smudge sticks this fall when I have time for fun things like that. #sunandbeefarm #dryfarming #flowerfarm

[arthurmax59]

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[ketoplanus]

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[socialsf]

#knowyourfarmer @dirtygirlproduce #dryfarmed #earlygirltomatoes #yesplease #organic #tomatolove #octoberstyle #inseasonnow #lifedoesnotsuck (at Ferry Building Farmers Market) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3h_SzMn8Ds/?igshid=12u0uzwwhyj8o

[myvinespot]

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[fatehbaz]

Thinking about bugs and prairies today, as one does. Still impressive, to me, that ecological imperialism, Indigenous dispossession, unsustainable agriculture, and soil degradation was so intense that a single species of insect could go from a population of trillions during one summer, darkening the sky across the entirety of the Great Plains and potentially weighing 28 million tons, to completely extinct less than 20 years later. (The specific reason for the sudden extinction of the Rocky Mountain locust is, famously, still a mystery, though.) Like the passenger pigeon, Carolina parakeet, and American bison, the locust is a famous casualties of US imperial expansion of the 19th century. I know that the locust swarms of the 1870s are already well-known from their portrayal in media at the time and in popular fiction in later decades, but it’s the ecological relationships of the locust which still fascinate me. It’s unclear to what extent riparian deforestation and local bison extinction affected the locust.

Here, Rocky Mountain locusts are depicted as a manifestation of ecological resistance against homesteading and settler-colonial industrial agriculture.

The “The Train Hold-Up” is an 1870s photo graphic dramatizing how locusts were interfering with empire’s resource extraction and westward expansion, with a photo by F.D. Conard.

The cartoon grasshopper-man comes from 1875, and is held at Kansas State Historical Society.

The cartoon is a depiction of the locust swarms of 1874-1875; by artist Henry Worrall, via Kansas State Historical Society.

[Photo of Rocky Mountain locust. Via Wikimedia, public domain. And, a map of the suspected distribution range of the species, which forms a neat outline of the combined area of the Great Plains and the sagebrush steppe of the northern Great Basin and Columbia Plateau.]

Leading up to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, there were 3 other catastrophic droughts which devastated the Intermountain West and High Plains during the Euro-American land-grabbing campaigns of the 19th century, all due to Euro-American devegetation, agriculture, and Indigenous dispossession. Environmental historians tend to distinguish the 3 events as: “the Civil War drought” of the mid-1850s through the mid-1860s; the La Nina-influenced event of the 1870s; and the late-1880s and 1890s drought with blatantly clear connections to localized bison extinction, violence against Natives, colonial homesteading, and unsustainable dryfarming practices. (The Homestead Act passed in 1862, and all 3 of these drought periods correspond with the incredible intensification of US homesteading between 1860 and the 1890s.) And during the 1870s drought, the Rocky Mountain locust (Melanoplus spretus) might have achieved its largest historical population size. In 1877, the US government established the Entomological Commission, partially to address the vast swarms of locusts which would blacken the sky. The State of Missouri legally required citizens to commit at least one day each week to killing locusts. Extrapolations at the time proposed that, in 1875, 3.5 trillion locusts covered the American West. Then, suddenly, the Rocky Mountain locust went entirely extinct, with the last living locusts collected in 1902.

[Not a bad map of grasslands, steppe, and desert regions of the US. By Karen Launchbaugh, via Wikimedia.]

An 1888 engraving held at Minnesota Historical Society, which depicts a mid-1870s swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts.

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On the presumed ecological relationships of the locusts:

From Hopkins’s academic review of Lockwood’s Locust (2004): The Rocky Mountain locust was once the most abundant insect on the Great Plains. In years of peak populations, Lockwood calculates, its numbers rivaled bison populations in both biomass and consumption of forage. Before the plains were settled, periodic swarms of migrating locusts were part of the natural rhythm of the grasslands, particularly during years of drought. That situation had changed by the mid-1870s, however, when farmers and ranchers occupied much of the Great Plains. A drought of several years' duration triggered a massive outbreak of locusts that swept over an immense area, destroying much of the agricultural production and bringing famine to many settlers. [...]

Several theories to explain the extinction -- and one positing that the locust was still alive, masquerading as an extreme migratory form of a common related grasshopper -- were put forward over the years. [...] One of the most interesting of these theories was that the ecology of the locust was somehow linked to the great herds of bison, and that the extermination of the latter from most of its range brought about the extinction of the former. These two major and competing grazers had coexisted on the plains for thousands of years, so the idea was advanced that the bison somehow altered the ecology of the grasslands to favor reproduction and survival of the locust. Another theory was that the planting of alfalfa throughout the locust's breeding area in the latter part of the 19th century could have played a role in the insect's extinction; alfalfa, which is palatable to grasshoppers, was shown in laboratory studies to be deleterious to the growth of the insect's immature stages. [End of excerpt.]

Bison near Yellowstone, and a look at some lower-elevation sagebrush habitat. [Photo by J!m P/eaco for National Park Service.]

Here’s a look at the contraction of American bison distribution until 1890. [By Cephas, via Wikimedia.]

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Some entomologists think that smaller-scale Euro-American devegetation of riparian woodlands and soils - along streams and rivers - might’ve been the major cause of sudden extinction. (Riparian corridors in dryland ecosystems like Great Basin sagebrush steppe or shortgrass prairie can be especially susceptible to damage from the arrival of Euro-American settlers and water diversion for cattle rangeland.) Lockwood and other modern entomologists have also proposed that the locust, for reproduction, relied specifically on the riparian corridors and forests of the valleys of the Yellowstone region and southwestern Montana.

A basic summary of potential ecological influences on the extinction, from the abstract of “A Solution for the Sudden and Unexplained Extinction of the Rocky Mountain Grasshopper (Orthoptera: Acrididae).” Lockwood and Debrey: Within the region that this species occupied in the late 1800s, oviposition and early nymphal development occurred almost exclusively in riparian habitats. Intensive anthropogenic effects (i.e., tillage; irrigation; loss of the beaver; and introduction of cattle, plants, and birds) were associated with virtually the entire range of M. spretus in the late 1800s. We suggest that localized agricultural destruction of the insect's habitat and the introduction of exotic species caused the extinction of M. spretus. [End of excerpt.]

Thing I did:

Riley’s illustration of Rocky Mountain locust reproduction, from a report to the Missouri General Assembly, 1874. Via University of Missouri W.R. Enns Entomology Museum.

The specific element of ecological degradation which led to extinction might technically be a “mystery,” but settler-colonial agriculture and homesteading are the clear culprits.

[vulturehill]

Two 10 year-olds. One is 5’ tall now, the other is a #Gravenstein on #P18 rootstock, dry-farmed since planting in 2010. . .#orcharding #dryfarming #vulturehill https://www.instagram.com/p/B8gquvTp17V/?igshid=14mckz9c9t8df

[farmingstudy]

शुष्क खेती (dry farming) क्या है इसकी परिभाषा एवं आवश्यकताएं लिखिए भारत के उन क्षेत्रों में शुष्क खेती (dry farming in hindi) की जाती है, जहां 50 सेमी० से कम वर्षा होती है ।

शुष्क क्षेत्र क्या है शुष्क क्षेत्र का अर्थ शुष्क खेती और वाटरशेड प्रबंधन पीडीएफ शुष्क भूमि कृषि किसे कहते हैं शुष्क खेती की परिभाषा लिखिए वर्षा आधारित खेती किसे कहते हैं मिश्रित खेती किसे कहते हैं शुष्क कृषि में कौन सी फसल बोई जाती है शुष्क कृषि की समस्याओं सिंचित खेती की परिभाषा शुष्क कृषि की विशेषताओं भूमि खेती

[jawlineradvance32]

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[gullahislandfarmer]

Another thing to do during free time at a family reunion is visit new friends in the vicinity. Meagan and I took a drive to @freshfuturefarm to visit the farm and the grocery store. I attended the conference the farm hosted a few months ago. It was well attended and very informative. Later Tony and I were at the same table with Germaine while attending a farm workshop in Orangeburg. We follow them on social media and enjoy seeing their successes. Well, seeing the farm and everything firsthand was a treat. We met the family before they completed their chores for the day. This farm and store is a source of encouragement and hope for this community without other sources of fresh produce or another nearby grocery store. We appreciated the time to walk and chat with the family. Many blessings to y’all as you continue your work, we look forward to seeing more of the fruit of your labor. #farmer #farmfamily #farming #farmstore #farmersmarket #bananatree #bananatrees #garden #gardens #communitygarden #communitygardens #hens #art #murals #chopanddrop #bananaleaves #northcharleston #fooddessert #sustainableagriculture #scblackfarmersconference #blackfarmers #dryfarming (at Fresh Future Farm) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz6un9OgHbZ/?igshid=19w6vs7c7cp9x

[ketoplanus]

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[vulturehill]

The #orchardfloor is green again.💚😌 . . . .#californiacider #organicorchard #notill #dryfarming #rainyseason #mediterraneanclimate #vulturehill https://www.instagram.com/p/B5-vaDWJ5dp/?igshid=lezcv3fs4vbo