Civil Eats

JANUARY 7, 2025

Kotutwa Johnson might build some protection for his crops with desert brush or cans to shield them from the wind, but his plants thrive without any fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, mulch, or irrigation. (Photo courtesy of Michael Kotutwa Johnson) Dry farming has been a Hopi tradition for several millennia.

Seeding 104

Seeding Farming Farming Crop 104

Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

Wild cotton grows in the parched grasslands of the Sonoran Desert, surviving without irrigation, pesticides, or other human inputs that domesticated cotton depends on. a) teosinte and maize (Zea mays); b) chilli pepper (Capsicum annuum); c) common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris); d) cotton (Gossypium hirsutum). An Arizona Walnut tree.

Seeding 135

Seeding Crop Agriculture Agriculture 135

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 7, 2025

Kotutwa Johnson might build some protection for his crops with desert brush or cans to shield them from the wind, but his plants thrive without any fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, mulch or irrigation. Dry farming has been a Hopi tradition for several millennia. But we can adapt to it, and our seeds can adapt.

Seeding 60

Seeding Farming Farming Crop 60

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

If the biotech companies defeat maize in its center of origin, it will embolden them to do the same in other centers of origin,” said Tania Monserrat Téllez, an organizer with Sin Maiz, No Hay Pais (Without Corn, There Is No Nation), a coalition of groups in Mexico supporting the ban. Photo by Omar Torres/AFP via Getty Images.

Maize 141

Maize Science Food Crop 141