An Oregon farmer grew tomatoes, potatoes, squash, garlic and beans for 40 years without irrigation; careful soil preparation kept stored moisture in the root zone
He started dry farming in California but moved to a 9.6-acre site near Veneta, Oregon, in 2007 Someone has rightly said that ‘Necessity is the mother of invention’. Over decades, weather patterns became less predictable across the Pacific Northwest, and farmers contended with hotter temperatures, drought and shrinking snowmelt that strained water supplies. It was…