Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Cornfields also dot the landscape in a few places here in semi-arid New
Mexico. We know our climate was wetter and cooler in the past. Snowpacks
were deeper and water tables were higher a couple generations back. It's
believed some of the native settlements like the Chaco Culture were
abandoned after climate changes, possibly Mesa Verde and others. There were
wholesale migrations around the 1400s to established river valleys. I
believe we can do only so much by fighting climate and have to work with
it. We may yet see mass migrations in our time. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 3/11/2007 at 9:10 AM Gloria Baikauskas wrote:

>Corn does grow in Texas.  Corn was a staple of even Native Americans in
>the Southwest where it is far hotter.  You can drive by cornfields here. 
>I see more maize fields locally, but corn is also grown.  I have grown it
>successfully here in Texas...just not where I am right now.  When I did
>try using organic methods it was a failure because the government came
>along and picked it all up.  Rolled it up like hay and carried it off
>because burning it put the population at risk.....and it was dangerous to
>sell it for feed as some farmers may have tried to do to recover costs.  
>   
>  I had never heard of the Three Sisters until I started on the gardening
>groups. We were taught about it in school when I lived in the Chicago
>area, but it wasn't called the Three Sisters.  
>   
>  Gloria, Texas
>