Getting anything to grow in a place with very little rainfall is hard enough, but getting enough to grow to feed a village must have been even more difficult. Somehow the ancient Native America cultures who lived in the arid southwest managed to do it, utilizing dry land farming techniques to grow enough to live. These techniques used the land they had, including slopes, rock dams, and occasional rains to cultivate corn, squash, beans, and other foods native to the region. Don't think of farming in the big scale that we use now; think small plots, no bigger than the size of a modern bathroom, carefully laid out in the best place possible to collect rain and to protect it from animals. The lengths people go to survive is amazing!
Leave me a comment below and tell me if you've seen dry land farming techniques like this before. Where?
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