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Listen to Plants, Says Indigenous Forager and Activist Linda Black Elk

Civil Eats

The Indigenous ethnobotanist and food sovereignty activist foraged with her mom and grandmother in the Ohio River Valley as a child, then made the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota her home alongside her husband, Luke. My mom was an Indigenous woman from Korea, and she grew up foraging and growing her own food as a matter of survival.

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Farmers Can Adapt to Alternating Droughts and Floods—Here’s How

The Equation

While a small number of winter crops such as small grains (wheat, oats, barley) and forage and pasture crops such as alfalfa can use some winter rain and snow, western agriculture largely depends on a steady supply of irrigated water that has led to extreme groundwater mining.