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mmmirele7/19/2021 9:06:42 am PDT

re: #344 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Or cotton in the Arizona deserts.

You *can* grow cotton in the Arizona deserts…cotton was grown in areas near my house during the Hohokam period. However, the Hohokam used irrigation and pretty much hand dug the irrigation canals over centuries. Very few of the canals were preserved—the Mormon settlers either repurposed them because they were serious engineering marvels and they WORKED, or they were bulldozed and filled in after the farmers sold out and the suburbanites, like me, moved in.

I remember driving by a cotton field with my dad and uncle, the field had been picked and there was still some cotton on the plants. My dad: “Mama would have whipped us for leaving so much behind.” Uncle: “Yup.” The things you learn about your parents. I had no idea that they had grown cotton, much less had to go out and pick it.