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Greeley, Colorado, is a farm town closer to the Wyoming border than it is to Denver.
The western U.S. is in the middle of a 22-year-long megadrought, and Greeley is just one of the towns where farmers are facing tough decisions over how to keep us fed when there’s less water to go around.
What innovative solutions have farmers come up with? How is the drought changing the way we think about agriculture?
The western U.S. is in the middle of a 22-year-long megadrought, and Greeley is just one of the towns where farmers are facing tough decisions over how to keep us fed when there’s less water to go around.
What innovative solutions have farmers come up with? How is the drought changing the way we think about agriculture?
Water Week: How to farm in a drought
Posted from the1a.org
Farming
Agriculture
Water
Climate Change
Greeley
Posted >1 y ago
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Collect water in rain barrels
You can buy official rain barrels with spouts or you can fashion your own from many types of barrels or large containers. Use these to collect water from gutter downspouts or other areas where water runs and is easily collected, then save the water for a not-so rainy day. Just be sure that whatever container you use can't be reached by small children, and place screening over the opening to keep mosquitoes and litter out."
..."Collect water in rain barrels
You can buy official rain barrels with spouts or you can fashion your own from many types of barrels or large containers. Use these to collect water from gutter downspouts or other areas where water runs and is easily collected, then save the water for a not-so rainy day. Just be sure that whatever container you use can't be reached by small children, and place screening over the opening to keep mosquitoes and litter out."
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As a man descended from farmers on both sides of the family, I am very interested in what they come up with
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