Can you imagine our world without farmers? You know, those hardworking people who cultivate land, grow crops and raise animals … not that insurance company for your car. Well … our technology obsessed society and humans do very well at creating great comfort and in moving one breakthrough to another in terms of technological gadgets […]
If you go to enough workshops about grazing, you’re bound to see an illustration that shows how biting off the tops of plants impacts their roots, and how if you graze short enough, the plant won’t have enough roots to rebound and produce more leafy material. In fact, if you’ve been with us at On […]
A look at how Great Plains farmers used barbed-wire fences to transmit telephone calls. Barbed wire in the Great Plains did more than keep longhorn out. It also let Ma Bell in Few inventions are as elegantly simple as barbed wire: a pair of wires twisted and strung with sharp wire thorns. After succeeding dramatically […]
