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CHANGES
Every day, there are changes that happen hourly. Every season, there are changes that happen monthly. And every generation, there are changes that happen over the years. These daily, seasonal, and generational changes are inexorable and inescapable. At sunrise on … Continue reading
Native American Corridors and Core Areas
Native American Corridors and Core Areas The Kanaranzi Creek has memories to share. When the water is high in flood, clues to those memories erode out of the high banks and are deposited on the adjacent downstream sand bars. And, … Continue reading
The Creek as a Corridor for People
The traditional views of the origins of Thanksgiving involve Indians and Pilgrims sharing a meal to celebrate peaceful coexistence and the Fall harvest. In reality, the Indigenous people probably saved the colonial settlers from starvation and later interactions were hardly … Continue reading
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Tagged dugout, homesteaders, Native American, Thanksgiving
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Sustainable Agriculture
The first four generations of our farming history were reviewed in a post back in July, but this current one will concentrate on just the last two generations. The “environment” was not really a factor in the subsistence farming done … Continue reading
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Tagged agribusiness, conservation, NRCS, regenerative agriculture
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Mourning the Loss of a Tree
Early in the evening last Thursday, a thunderstorm blew through….literally. You could see the gust front on the National Weather Service radar before the rain in the main cell even got to us. It dropped about a half inch that … Continue reading
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Tagged ash trees, hackberries, Little House, young families
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Wren Real Estate
My family’s interest in birds goes back several generations. My grandparents had a bird book to help identify who they saw and my parents had a winter feeder and put up birdhouses. Margaret and I are continuing that tradition. Although … Continue reading
Lilacs Don’t Last Forever
When Grandma Daisy came to the Farm as a bride in the decade before World War I, she planted lilac bushes. She was the daughter of a Civil War veteran who had homesteaded along the Creek about five miles upstream … Continue reading
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Tagged bride, grandmother, homesteaders, Memorial Day, shrubs
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End of the Orchard
Many of the old homesteaded farms along Kanaranzi Creek had an orchard. Margaret has relatives living on one about five miles upstream that was originally named Orchard Farm, but I don’t think any of the original trees still survive. That’s … Continue reading
Lone Trees
Lone Tree Farm was named for a huge old cottonwood tree that originally stood along Knanranzi Creek just beyond the present-day farmyard. Although it was been gone for almost a century there still are some isolated trees that carry on … Continue reading
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Tagged apple tree, ash tree, cottonwood, elm tree
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Farmyard Changes
The farmyard has changed in response to fluctuations in row crop and livestock markets and to the inescapable cycles of wet and dry weather. But, there have also been modifications to accommodate family generational changes. We’ve got a set of … Continue reading
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Tagged air photos, buildings, farm operation, generations
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Lone Tree Farm on Kanaranzi Creek 