#southwest — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #southwest, aggregated by home.social.
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Gnome-coming at Chelsea Flower Show as stars decorate garden favourites – The Irish News https://www.allforgardening.com/1768715/gnome-coming-at-chelsea-flower-show-as-stars-decorate-garden-favourites-the-irish-news/ #charity #Charles #ChelseaFlowerShow #ClimateChange #environment #garden #gardening #gnomes #highgrove #King #London #NorthWest #rhs #royal #RoyalHorticulturalSociety #SouthWest #uk
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Exploring the breathtaking views from Tseyi Overlook in Canyon de Chelly National Monument near Chinle, Arizona 🌄 Ancient history, towering canyon walls, and the peaceful beauty of Chinle Creek winding below made this stop unforgettable
https://youtube.com/shorts/_d1Z6aBzlCE
#CanyonDeChelly #Arizona #Travel #Southwest #Nature #RoadTrip
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creates semantic nodes and clusters #SCARBOROUGH #SOUTHWEST #PROVINCIAL #ELECTORAL #DISTRICT www.perplexity.ai/search/new?q... #PRINCE #JACKSON allgraph.ro/advanced-sea... Do you like aéPiot semantics? Donate to the aéPiot semantic platform: www.paypal.com/donate?busin...
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/228005/ Somalia’s Southwest State holds direct elections as opposition boycotts vote #as #boycotts #direct #élections #holds #opposition #Somalia #somalias #Southwest #State #VOTE
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I send thanks to the buyer from Arkansas who purchased a jigsaw puzzle of
Stillness -- https://fineartamerica.com/featured/stillness-steve-henderson.html?product=puzzle
May the artwork and the puzzle take you to a place of peace, relaxation, and calm.
#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #nature #arizona #grandcanyon #women #peace #puzzle #entertainment #jigsaw #sale #landscape #southwest #west #western #fedigiftshop
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Southwest Bobcats 🌵🐾🛋️ High society in the high desert. #Southwest wildlife.
Available Here: https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/southwest-bobcats-lisa-s-baker.html
#MastoArt #CreativeToots #Bobcat #CactusArt #WhimsicalArt #Arizona #ModernArt #InteriorDesign #LisaSBaker #BuyIntoArt #ArtPrints #SouthwestDecor #Wildlife #BobcatArt #Wallart #FediArt #Fediverse #CreativeToots #AYearForArt #CuteAnimals #DesertArt #SouthwestArt #CanvasPrints
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/170100/ Former Somali PM slams appointment of interim Southwest state leader #appointment #former #interim #leader #of #pm #slams #Somali #Somalia #Southwest #State
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/162869/ Southwest President Laftagareen resigns after federal government troops seize Baidoa #after #Baidoa #federal #Government #Laftagareen #President #resigns #seize #Somalia #Southwest #Troops
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La Casa de la Palmera, Joan Miró
Really like the feel of this. imho it has some of the same feel as his abstract paintings, spare and simple and quirky. something about that half-moon in the sky, the moon in the daytime is faint and dry.
#art #southwest #adobe #ranch #work #food #water #moon #joanMiro #dry
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#DeathValley sees its most spectacular #superbloom in a decade
The #wildflowers have painted the usually barren landscape of #DeathValleyNationalPark — one of the hottest and driest places in the country — in pretty pink, purple and yellow.
March 8, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT
By Denise ChowExcerpt: " 'You can think of it like drought evasion,' said Erik Rakestraw, a curator of botany at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson. 'In their seed form, it’s like they’re not even existing. They’re just laying in the soil.'
"In the proper conditions, the seeds will germinate. Then, after the flowers are pollinated, they’ll turn back to seeds and the cycle will begin again."
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Spin the #ClimateChangeWeatherWheel and see where it lands!
US weather to go nuts with blizzard, polar vortex, heat dome, atmospheric river all at once
By SETH BORENSTEIN
Updated 12:03 AM EDT, March 13, 2026"Nearly every part of the United States is getting walloped by wild weather or just about to be.
"Days of downpours have begun in #Hawaii. The #Southwest will soon bake with day after day of record 100-degree-plus (38 Celsius-plus) #heat. Two storms will dump snow by the foot over northern #GreatLakes states. And the dreaded #PolarVortex will again invade the Midwest and East with soul-crushing #ArcticChill.
"This forecast of extremes comes as weather whiplash already hit much of the East. On Wednesday, Washington, D.C. residents walked around in shorts in record-breaking 86 degrees Fahrenheit (about 30 Celsius). On Thursday, it snowed.
" 'All of the country, even if you’re not necessarily seeing extremes, are going to see generally changing from cold to warm, or warm to cold to warm,' said meteorologist Marc Chenard of the weather service’s Weather Prediction Center in Maryland.
"Former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief scientist Ryan Maue said he expects extreme weather in all 50 states."
#ExtremeWeather #USWeather #USWx #TemperatureSwings #RecordHeat #Blizzards #ClimateChange #ClimateChangeIsReal
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I send thanks to the buyer from Virginia who purchased a coffee mug of
Serenity -- https://fineartamerica.com/featured/serenity-steve-henderson.html?product=coffee-mug
May the image take you to a place of peace, contemplation, calmness and deep, quiet joy.
#mastoart #fediart #art #buyintoart #ayearforart #grandcanyon #arizona #southwest #woman #peace #gift #coffee #fedigiftshop #landscape #notAI #noAI #view #vista #serenity #gift #mug #nature #USA
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Little Painted Desert near Winslow, Arizona, looking west towards the San Francisco Mountains. April 1984.
#hiking #photography #landscapephotography #hikingadventures #nature #Arizona #PaintedDesert #mountains #Southwest #desert
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Desert Majesty - Available Here: https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/desert-majesty-lisa-s-baker.html
#eagle #baldeagle #raptor #birdsofprey #bir #birds #birdsofmastodon #birdsoffediverse #art #arte #artwork #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #artforsale #buyintoart #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #creativeToots #watercolor #mixedmedia #southwest #southwestdesign #desert #cactus #cacti #saguaro #flowers #nature #rustic #teal #rust
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Mitten 'Im Nirgendwo' #FotoVorschlag stand dieser Pfosten an einem #Highway in #Kalifornien
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Little Painted Desert near Winslow, Arizona. April 1984. A colorful labyrinth of eroded rock formations and box canyons.
#hiking #photography #landscapephotography #hikingadventures #nature #Arizona #PaintedDesert #Southwest #desert
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This evening's Sunset
#sunset #clouds #photography #southwest #sky #sunset_capture #southwest #WT7
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Earthen Threads IV one of four new pattern art, looks great on a pillow! https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/earthen-threads-iv-lisa-s-baker.html
#pattern #earthy #tribal #ikat #fabric #mixedmedia #abstract #abstractart #abstractartwork #art #arte #artwork #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #artforsale #buyintoart #artprints #canvasprints #throwpillows #geometric #southwest #blue #orange #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #fedigiftshop
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Earthen Threads IV one of four new pattern art, looks great on a pillow! https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/earthen-threads-iv-lisa-s-baker.html
#pattern #earthy #tribal #ikat #fabric #mixedmedia #abstract #abstractart #abstractartwork #art #arte #artwork #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #artforsale #buyintoart #artprints #canvasprints #throwpillows #geometric #southwest #blue #orange #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #fedigiftshop
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Earthen Threads IV one of four new pattern art, looks great on a pillow! https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/earthen-threads-iv-lisa-s-baker.html
#pattern #earthy #tribal #ikat #fabric #mixedmedia #abstract #abstractart #abstractartwork #art #arte #artwork #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #artforsale #buyintoart #artprints #canvasprints #throwpillows #geometric #southwest #blue #orange #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #fedigiftshop
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Earthen Threads IV one of four new pattern art, looks great on a pillow! https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/earthen-threads-iv-lisa-s-baker.html
#pattern #earthy #tribal #ikat #fabric #mixedmedia #abstract #abstractart #abstractartwork #art #arte #artwork #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #artforsale #buyintoart #artprints #canvasprints #throwpillows #geometric #southwest #blue #orange #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #fedigiftshop
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Earthen Threads IV one of four new pattern art, looks great on a pillow! https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/earthen-threads-iv-lisa-s-baker.html
#pattern #earthy #tribal #ikat #fabric #mixedmedia #abstract #abstractart #abstractartwork #art #arte #artwork #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #artforsale #buyintoart #artprints #canvasprints #throwpillows #geometric #southwest #blue #orange #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #fedigiftshop
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Could This #Arizona Ranch Be a Model for #Southwest Farmers?
Oatman Flats has undergone a dramatic transformation, becoming the Southwest’s first #Regenerative #Organic Certified farm and a potential source of ideas for weathering #ClimateChange.
" 'We embraced the abundance of #heirloom and native crops in the #SonoranDesert,' Hansen said. 'We are looking at the land and asking it what we should grow, rather than asking the land to grow what we want.' " - Dax Hansen, owner of Oatman Flats Ranch.
By Samuel Gilbert
May 12, 2025Excerpt: "Regeneration Rooted in #Indigenous Practices
"Southern Arizona’s rich agricultural history stretches back more than 5,000 years. By 600 CE, the Hohokam people were constructing North America’s largest and most elaborate irrigation systems along the Salt and Gila Rivers. The descendants of the Hohokam—the Pima and Tohono O’odham—continued to farm the land up to and after the arrival of the Spanish, who began to colonize southern Arizona in the 1600s. They continue to farm in Arizona today.
"At the Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation, about two hours southeast of Oatman Flats, the San Xavier Co-op Farm uses historic land management practices and grows traditional crops that reflect their respect for the land, plants, animals, elders, and the sacredness of water.
"San Xavier Farm Manager Duran Andrews and his team plant #CoverCrops, rotate fields, and collect #rainwater.
" '[Regenerative agriculture] is nothing new to us,' Andrews said. 'We have been doing this for decades. Harmony between nature and people has been our approach all the time.' Rotating fields and cultivating multiple mutually beneficial species in the same fields improves water and soil quality and biodiversity in this harsh landscape.
" 'You’ve seen what the land looks like in five years; imagine it in 10. If we can do it here, we can do it anywhere.'
"The co-op grows a variety of native crops that were developed in the region and cultivated for centuries or, in some cases, millennia, such as grains and beans, which they sell online. 'We irrigate them till they sprout, then cut them off till the monsoon shows up,' Andrews said. 'We try to keep crops in that hardy state through all the years and decades they have been here. We try not to get away from how things were done in the past.'
"They also grow White Sonora wheat, introduced to Arizona by Spanish Jesuit missionaries in the 1600s. 'It was a gift from Father Kino that we have taken as our own,' Andrews said. 'The [San Xavier] community was one of the first to grow this wheat.'
"Following the Mexican-American War in the mid-1800s, the United States claimed parts of modern-day Arizona, New Mexico, California, Nevada, and Utah. The Anglo ranchers who moved into the area dug canals to irrigate agricultural fields, transforming the landscape. An 1852 watercolor by surveyor Jon Russell Bartlett depicts a verdant valley with cottonwoods and mesquite trees lining a flowing Gila River as it passes through Oatman Flats Ranch.
"That landscape is unrecognizable today. The lower Gila has gone bone dry after years of upstream diversions, dams, water overuse, and climate change. In 2019, the Gila River earned the title of Most Endangered River by the nonprofit advocacy group American Rivers.
"Standing on the sandy Gila riverbed, which divides the north and south farms of Oatman Flats Ranch, Wang pointed to the nearby invasive salt cedars. Healing the land involves rebuilding the water, nutrient, and carbon cycles from the ground up, 'at the micro level,' he said. 'On the macro level, it’s broken.'
"The ranch team has poured resources into rebuilding soil health by planting #hedgerows and 30-plus species of cover crops, at a cost of approximately $100,000. The hedgerows, mostly native trees, were planted along the edges of the fields to reduce erosion and provide habitat for beneficial species, including #pollinators such as #bees and #hummingbirds.
"The cover crops — #millet, #chickpeas, #sunflowers, #sorghum, sudan grass, broadleaves, and #NativeGrasses among them—are planted immediately after harvesting wheat, to provide 'soil armor,' help conserve water, fix nitrogen in the soil, suppress weeds, attract beneficial insects, and sequester carbon. The once-barren land now supports life for more than 120 species of flora and fauna."
Read more:
https://civileats.com/2025/05/12/could-this-arizona-ranch-be-a-model-for-southwest-farmers/#SolarPunkSunday #RegenerativeAgriculture #RegenerativeFarming #RestorativeAgriculture #ClimateChangeFarming
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Could This #Arizona Ranch Be a Model for #Southwest Farmers?
Oatman Flats has undergone a dramatic transformation, becoming the Southwest’s first #Regenerative #Organic Certified farm and a potential source of ideas for weathering #ClimateChange.
" 'We embraced the abundance of #heirloom and native crops in the #SonoranDesert,' Hansen said. 'We are looking at the land and asking it what we should grow, rather than asking the land to grow what we want.' " - Dax Hansen, owner of Oatman Flats Ranch.
By Samuel Gilbert
May 12, 2025Excerpt: "Regeneration Rooted in #Indigenous Practices
"Southern Arizona’s rich agricultural history stretches back more than 5,000 years. By 600 CE, the Hohokam people were constructing North America’s largest and most elaborate irrigation systems along the Salt and Gila Rivers. The descendants of the Hohokam—the Pima and Tohono O’odham—continued to farm the land up to and after the arrival of the Spanish, who began to colonize southern Arizona in the 1600s. They continue to farm in Arizona today.
"At the Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation, about two hours southeast of Oatman Flats, the San Xavier Co-op Farm uses historic land management practices and grows traditional crops that reflect their respect for the land, plants, animals, elders, and the sacredness of water.
"San Xavier Farm Manager Duran Andrews and his team plant #CoverCrops, rotate fields, and collect #rainwater.
" '[Regenerative agriculture] is nothing new to us,' Andrews said. 'We have been doing this for decades. Harmony between nature and people has been our approach all the time.' Rotating fields and cultivating multiple mutually beneficial species in the same fields improves water and soil quality and biodiversity in this harsh landscape.
" 'You’ve seen what the land looks like in five years; imagine it in 10. If we can do it here, we can do it anywhere.'
"The co-op grows a variety of native crops that were developed in the region and cultivated for centuries or, in some cases, millennia, such as grains and beans, which they sell online. 'We irrigate them till they sprout, then cut them off till the monsoon shows up,' Andrews said. 'We try to keep crops in that hardy state through all the years and decades they have been here. We try not to get away from how things were done in the past.'
"They also grow White Sonora wheat, introduced to Arizona by Spanish Jesuit missionaries in the 1600s. 'It was a gift from Father Kino that we have taken as our own,' Andrews said. 'The [San Xavier] community was one of the first to grow this wheat.'
"Following the Mexican-American War in the mid-1800s, the United States claimed parts of modern-day Arizona, New Mexico, California, Nevada, and Utah. The Anglo ranchers who moved into the area dug canals to irrigate agricultural fields, transforming the landscape. An 1852 watercolor by surveyor Jon Russell Bartlett depicts a verdant valley with cottonwoods and mesquite trees lining a flowing Gila River as it passes through Oatman Flats Ranch.
"That landscape is unrecognizable today. The lower Gila has gone bone dry after years of upstream diversions, dams, water overuse, and climate change. In 2019, the Gila River earned the title of Most Endangered River by the nonprofit advocacy group American Rivers.
"Standing on the sandy Gila riverbed, which divides the north and south farms of Oatman Flats Ranch, Wang pointed to the nearby invasive salt cedars. Healing the land involves rebuilding the water, nutrient, and carbon cycles from the ground up, 'at the micro level,' he said. 'On the macro level, it’s broken.'
"The ranch team has poured resources into rebuilding soil health by planting #hedgerows and 30-plus species of cover crops, at a cost of approximately $100,000. The hedgerows, mostly native trees, were planted along the edges of the fields to reduce erosion and provide habitat for beneficial species, including #pollinators such as #bees and #hummingbirds.
"The cover crops — #millet, #chickpeas, #sunflowers, #sorghum, sudan grass, broadleaves, and #NativeGrasses among them—are planted immediately after harvesting wheat, to provide 'soil armor,' help conserve water, fix nitrogen in the soil, suppress weeds, attract beneficial insects, and sequester carbon. The once-barren land now supports life for more than 120 species of flora and fauna."
Read more:
https://civileats.com/2025/05/12/could-this-arizona-ranch-be-a-model-for-southwest-farmers/#SolarPunkSunday #RegenerativeAgriculture #RegenerativeFarming #RestorativeAgriculture #ClimateChangeFarming
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Could This #Arizona Ranch Be a Model for #Southwest Farmers?
Oatman Flats has undergone a dramatic transformation, becoming the Southwest’s first #Regenerative #Organic Certified farm and a potential source of ideas for weathering #ClimateChange.
" 'We embraced the abundance of #heirloom and native crops in the #SonoranDesert,' Hansen said. 'We are looking at the land and asking it what we should grow, rather than asking the land to grow what we want.' " - Dax Hansen, owner of Oatman Flats Ranch.
By Samuel Gilbert
May 12, 2025Excerpt: "Regeneration Rooted in #Indigenous Practices
"Southern Arizona’s rich agricultural history stretches back more than 5,000 years. By 600 CE, the Hohokam people were constructing North America’s largest and most elaborate irrigation systems along the Salt and Gila Rivers. The descendants of the Hohokam—the Pima and Tohono O’odham—continued to farm the land up to and after the arrival of the Spanish, who began to colonize southern Arizona in the 1600s. They continue to farm in Arizona today.
"At the Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation, about two hours southeast of Oatman Flats, the San Xavier Co-op Farm uses historic land management practices and grows traditional crops that reflect their respect for the land, plants, animals, elders, and the sacredness of water.
"San Xavier Farm Manager Duran Andrews and his team plant #CoverCrops, rotate fields, and collect #rainwater.
" '[Regenerative agriculture] is nothing new to us,' Andrews said. 'We have been doing this for decades. Harmony between nature and people has been our approach all the time.' Rotating fields and cultivating multiple mutually beneficial species in the same fields improves water and soil quality and biodiversity in this harsh landscape.
" 'You’ve seen what the land looks like in five years; imagine it in 10. If we can do it here, we can do it anywhere.'
"The co-op grows a variety of native crops that were developed in the region and cultivated for centuries or, in some cases, millennia, such as grains and beans, which they sell online. 'We irrigate them till they sprout, then cut them off till the monsoon shows up,' Andrews said. 'We try to keep crops in that hardy state through all the years and decades they have been here. We try not to get away from how things were done in the past.'
"They also grow White Sonora wheat, introduced to Arizona by Spanish Jesuit missionaries in the 1600s. 'It was a gift from Father Kino that we have taken as our own,' Andrews said. 'The [San Xavier] community was one of the first to grow this wheat.'
"Following the Mexican-American War in the mid-1800s, the United States claimed parts of modern-day Arizona, New Mexico, California, Nevada, and Utah. The Anglo ranchers who moved into the area dug canals to irrigate agricultural fields, transforming the landscape. An 1852 watercolor by surveyor Jon Russell Bartlett depicts a verdant valley with cottonwoods and mesquite trees lining a flowing Gila River as it passes through Oatman Flats Ranch.
"That landscape is unrecognizable today. The lower Gila has gone bone dry after years of upstream diversions, dams, water overuse, and climate change. In 2019, the Gila River earned the title of Most Endangered River by the nonprofit advocacy group American Rivers.
"Standing on the sandy Gila riverbed, which divides the north and south farms of Oatman Flats Ranch, Wang pointed to the nearby invasive salt cedars. Healing the land involves rebuilding the water, nutrient, and carbon cycles from the ground up, 'at the micro level,' he said. 'On the macro level, it’s broken.'
"The ranch team has poured resources into rebuilding soil health by planting #hedgerows and 30-plus species of cover crops, at a cost of approximately $100,000. The hedgerows, mostly native trees, were planted along the edges of the fields to reduce erosion and provide habitat for beneficial species, including #pollinators such as #bees and #hummingbirds.
"The cover crops — #millet, #chickpeas, #sunflowers, #sorghum, sudan grass, broadleaves, and #NativeGrasses among them—are planted immediately after harvesting wheat, to provide 'soil armor,' help conserve water, fix nitrogen in the soil, suppress weeds, attract beneficial insects, and sequester carbon. The once-barren land now supports life for more than 120 species of flora and fauna."
Read more:
https://civileats.com/2025/05/12/could-this-arizona-ranch-be-a-model-for-southwest-farmers/#SolarPunkSunday #RegenerativeAgriculture #RegenerativeFarming #RestorativeAgriculture #ClimateChangeFarming
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Could This #Arizona Ranch Be a Model for #Southwest Farmers?
Oatman Flats has undergone a dramatic transformation, becoming the Southwest’s first #Regenerative #Organic Certified farm and a potential source of ideas for weathering #ClimateChange.
" 'We embraced the abundance of #heirloom and native crops in the #SonoranDesert,' Hansen said. 'We are looking at the land and asking it what we should grow, rather than asking the land to grow what we want.' " - Dax Hansen, owner of Oatman Flats Ranch.
By Samuel Gilbert
May 12, 2025Excerpt: "Regeneration Rooted in #Indigenous Practices
"Southern Arizona’s rich agricultural history stretches back more than 5,000 years. By 600 CE, the Hohokam people were constructing North America’s largest and most elaborate irrigation systems along the Salt and Gila Rivers. The descendants of the Hohokam—the Pima and Tohono O’odham—continued to farm the land up to and after the arrival of the Spanish, who began to colonize southern Arizona in the 1600s. They continue to farm in Arizona today.
"At the Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation, about two hours southeast of Oatman Flats, the San Xavier Co-op Farm uses historic land management practices and grows traditional crops that reflect their respect for the land, plants, animals, elders, and the sacredness of water.
"San Xavier Farm Manager Duran Andrews and his team plant #CoverCrops, rotate fields, and collect #rainwater.
" '[Regenerative agriculture] is nothing new to us,' Andrews said. 'We have been doing this for decades. Harmony between nature and people has been our approach all the time.' Rotating fields and cultivating multiple mutually beneficial species in the same fields improves water and soil quality and biodiversity in this harsh landscape.
" 'You’ve seen what the land looks like in five years; imagine it in 10. If we can do it here, we can do it anywhere.'
"The co-op grows a variety of native crops that were developed in the region and cultivated for centuries or, in some cases, millennia, such as grains and beans, which they sell online. 'We irrigate them till they sprout, then cut them off till the monsoon shows up,' Andrews said. 'We try to keep crops in that hardy state through all the years and decades they have been here. We try not to get away from how things were done in the past.'
"They also grow White Sonora wheat, introduced to Arizona by Spanish Jesuit missionaries in the 1600s. 'It was a gift from Father Kino that we have taken as our own,' Andrews said. 'The [San Xavier] community was one of the first to grow this wheat.'
"Following the Mexican-American War in the mid-1800s, the United States claimed parts of modern-day Arizona, New Mexico, California, Nevada, and Utah. The Anglo ranchers who moved into the area dug canals to irrigate agricultural fields, transforming the landscape. An 1852 watercolor by surveyor Jon Russell Bartlett depicts a verdant valley with cottonwoods and mesquite trees lining a flowing Gila River as it passes through Oatman Flats Ranch.
"That landscape is unrecognizable today. The lower Gila has gone bone dry after years of upstream diversions, dams, water overuse, and climate change. In 2019, the Gila River earned the title of Most Endangered River by the nonprofit advocacy group American Rivers.
"Standing on the sandy Gila riverbed, which divides the north and south farms of Oatman Flats Ranch, Wang pointed to the nearby invasive salt cedars. Healing the land involves rebuilding the water, nutrient, and carbon cycles from the ground up, 'at the micro level,' he said. 'On the macro level, it’s broken.'
"The ranch team has poured resources into rebuilding soil health by planting #hedgerows and 30-plus species of cover crops, at a cost of approximately $100,000. The hedgerows, mostly native trees, were planted along the edges of the fields to reduce erosion and provide habitat for beneficial species, including #pollinators such as #bees and #hummingbirds.
"The cover crops — #millet, #chickpeas, #sunflowers, #sorghum, sudan grass, broadleaves, and #NativeGrasses among them—are planted immediately after harvesting wheat, to provide 'soil armor,' help conserve water, fix nitrogen in the soil, suppress weeds, attract beneficial insects, and sequester carbon. The once-barren land now supports life for more than 120 species of flora and fauna."
Read more:
https://civileats.com/2025/05/12/could-this-arizona-ranch-be-a-model-for-southwest-farmers/#SolarPunkSunday #RegenerativeAgriculture #RegenerativeFarming #RestorativeAgriculture #ClimateChangeFarming
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Could This #Arizona Ranch Be a Model for #Southwest Farmers?
Oatman Flats has undergone a dramatic transformation, becoming the Southwest’s first #Regenerative #Organic Certified farm and a potential source of ideas for weathering #ClimateChange.
" 'We embraced the abundance of #heirloom and native crops in the #SonoranDesert,' Hansen said. 'We are looking at the land and asking it what we should grow, rather than asking the land to grow what we want.' " - Dax Hansen, owner of Oatman Flats Ranch.
By Samuel Gilbert
May 12, 2025Excerpt: "Regeneration Rooted in #Indigenous Practices
"Southern Arizona’s rich agricultural history stretches back more than 5,000 years. By 600 CE, the Hohokam people were constructing North America’s largest and most elaborate irrigation systems along the Salt and Gila Rivers. The descendants of the Hohokam—the Pima and Tohono O’odham—continued to farm the land up to and after the arrival of the Spanish, who began to colonize southern Arizona in the 1600s. They continue to farm in Arizona today.
"At the Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation, about two hours southeast of Oatman Flats, the San Xavier Co-op Farm uses historic land management practices and grows traditional crops that reflect their respect for the land, plants, animals, elders, and the sacredness of water.
"San Xavier Farm Manager Duran Andrews and his team plant #CoverCrops, rotate fields, and collect #rainwater.
" '[Regenerative agriculture] is nothing new to us,' Andrews said. 'We have been doing this for decades. Harmony between nature and people has been our approach all the time.' Rotating fields and cultivating multiple mutually beneficial species in the same fields improves water and soil quality and biodiversity in this harsh landscape.
" 'You’ve seen what the land looks like in five years; imagine it in 10. If we can do it here, we can do it anywhere.'
"The co-op grows a variety of native crops that were developed in the region and cultivated for centuries or, in some cases, millennia, such as grains and beans, which they sell online. 'We irrigate them till they sprout, then cut them off till the monsoon shows up,' Andrews said. 'We try to keep crops in that hardy state through all the years and decades they have been here. We try not to get away from how things were done in the past.'
"They also grow White Sonora wheat, introduced to Arizona by Spanish Jesuit missionaries in the 1600s. 'It was a gift from Father Kino that we have taken as our own,' Andrews said. 'The [San Xavier] community was one of the first to grow this wheat.'
"Following the Mexican-American War in the mid-1800s, the United States claimed parts of modern-day Arizona, New Mexico, California, Nevada, and Utah. The Anglo ranchers who moved into the area dug canals to irrigate agricultural fields, transforming the landscape. An 1852 watercolor by surveyor Jon Russell Bartlett depicts a verdant valley with cottonwoods and mesquite trees lining a flowing Gila River as it passes through Oatman Flats Ranch.
"That landscape is unrecognizable today. The lower Gila has gone bone dry after years of upstream diversions, dams, water overuse, and climate change. In 2019, the Gila River earned the title of Most Endangered River by the nonprofit advocacy group American Rivers.
"Standing on the sandy Gila riverbed, which divides the north and south farms of Oatman Flats Ranch, Wang pointed to the nearby invasive salt cedars. Healing the land involves rebuilding the water, nutrient, and carbon cycles from the ground up, 'at the micro level,' he said. 'On the macro level, it’s broken.'
"The ranch team has poured resources into rebuilding soil health by planting #hedgerows and 30-plus species of cover crops, at a cost of approximately $100,000. The hedgerows, mostly native trees, were planted along the edges of the fields to reduce erosion and provide habitat for beneficial species, including #pollinators such as #bees and #hummingbirds.
"The cover crops — #millet, #chickpeas, #sunflowers, #sorghum, sudan grass, broadleaves, and #NativeGrasses among them—are planted immediately after harvesting wheat, to provide 'soil armor,' help conserve water, fix nitrogen in the soil, suppress weeds, attract beneficial insects, and sequester carbon. The once-barren land now supports life for more than 120 species of flora and fauna."
Read more:
https://civileats.com/2025/05/12/could-this-arizona-ranch-be-a-model-for-southwest-farmers/#SolarPunkSunday #RegenerativeAgriculture #RegenerativeFarming #RestorativeAgriculture #ClimateChangeFarming
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Donkey Desert Flower Cart, newly added to my collection: https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/donkey-desert-flower-cart-lisa-s-baker.html
#Desert #Donkey #Southwest #DonkeyArt #DesertDecor #SouthwestStyle #WhimsicalArt #FloralArt #RusticCharm #DesertBlooms #SouthwestVibes #AnimalArtwork #BurroArt #PastelArt #NatureInspired #BotanicalArt #FlowerLovers #DesertLife #VintageStyle #PeacefulArt #HomeDecorIdeas #ArtForSale #WanderlustArt #BuyIntoArt #MastoArt #fediverse #fediart
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Desert Cacti Under Bright Southwest Skies
#desert #cactus #saguaro #landscape #southwest #impressionism #painting #art #sky #mountains #nature #wilderness #arizona #desertlife #desertart #bluesky
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Evening Light Dead Horse Point State Park Moab Utah VI
Find more here: https://www.WayneMoranPhotography.com/blog/10-most-beautiful-places-to-visit-in-utah/
#Utah #DeadHorsePoint #StatePark #Moab #nature #Southwest #Desert #landscape #photography #landscapephotography
#Ayearforart #buyintoArt #fineart #art #FillThatEmptyWall #homedecorideas #homedecor #wallartforsale #wallart #homedecoration #interiordesign #interiordesignideas #interiordesigner #colorful #greetingcards #giftideas #giftidea
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It is now widely believed that the first users of #eVTOL air taxis will be affluent consumers, a demographic not generally associated with #SouthwestAirlines. But within California, #Southwest is so ubiquitous that it’s the #airline of choice for many well-heeled business travelers. For The Air Current, I spoke with Nikhil Goel of #ArcherAviation about why the union of premium air taxi service and no-frills airline is not as unlikely as it might appear. https://theaircurrent.com/industry-strategy/california-business-travelers-underpin-southwests-evtol-deal-with-archer/
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Evening Light Dead Horse Point State Park Moab Utah
Find more here: https://www.WayneMoranPhotography.com/blog/10-most-beautiful-places-to-visit-in-utah/
#Utah #DeadHorsePoint #StatePark #Moab #nature #Southwest #Desert #landscape #photography #landscapephotography
#Ayearforart #buyintoArt #fineart #art #FillThatEmptyWall #homedecorideas #homedecor #wallartforsale #wallart #homedecoration #interiordesign #interiordesignideas #interiordesigner #colorful #greetingcards #giftideas #giftidea
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#Supai, #Ute, #Dine', #Arapaho, and #Lakota Testify on #Uranium #Exploitation before #InterAmericanCommission on #HumanRights
"The legacy of #UraniumMining in the #Southwest is death from #cancer and unreclaimed uranium mines. Now the contamination threatens the #ColoradoRiver. Tilousi urged the Commission to support the tribes efforts and pressure the #UnitedStates to change the #1872MiningLaw that allows international companies to seize #PublicLand for mining."
by Brenda Norrell, #CensoredNews
March 1, 2024WASHINGTON -- "'There was no respect for the people living on these lands, and certainly no respect for #MotherEarth,' Edith Hood, Dine' from Red Water Pond Road community, told the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
"'The government was aware of the risks and the dangers but failed and neglected to inform our people.'
"Dine', Havasupai, Northern Arapaho, Oglala Lakota and #WhiteMesa Ute testified on uranium exploitation by the United States on Wednesday, during the session, 'Impacts of Uranium Exploitation on #IndigenousPeoples' Rights.'
"The #BIA, #EPA and #NuclearRegulatoryCommission praised themselves, and attempted to #CoverUp the legacy of death from uranium mining, strewn #RadioactiveWaste, and deadly uranium mills in Indian country.
Eric Jantz, legal director of the New Mexico Environmental Law Center, disagreed with the United States assertions.
Jantz pointed out that the U.S. appears to want Native people to sacrifice more for 'national security' -- rather than to deal with the devastation. As for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, it has not honored public comments. And as for the EPA, it's too late. There are more than 500 uranium mine sites waiting to be cleaned up on the Navajo Nation. Zero have been fully cleaned up, Jantz told the Commission."'Our ancestors remains were desecrated to build the mill,' Anthony Badback, Ute Mountain Ute at White Mesa, told the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights today in Washington. Badback testified that #EnergyFuels uranium mill has contaminated the #groundwater, plants, birds, #wildlife, and air in his community in southeastern #Utah.
"The young people are getting asthma, and the people can no longer use their spring water for ceremonies. Ute must buy bottled water to drink, and no longer hunt because of the contamination. Now, the mill is bringing in international waste and has become a low-level radioactive waste repository, because of the lax standards of the state of Utah. 'We want the mill to be shut down,' Badback told the Commission. 'Please help us.'
Read more: https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/02/navajo-ute-lakota-to-testify-on-uranium.html
#WaterIsLife #NuclearWaste #UraniumMills #Reprocessing #IndigenousActivism
#CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism
#NoNukes #NoNewNukes
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Archaeologists Identify Roman Road Network [LiDAR]
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https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/08/archaeologists-identify-roman-road-network/148177 <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.109 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #LiDAR #landscape #history #romanhistory #romanroads #archaeology #roads #transportation #ancientroads #UK #Britian #England #Devon #Cornwall #SouthWest #spatialanalysis #gischat #LeastCostPaths #MADO #CMTC #floodprone #grade #roadnetwork #Medieval -
I'm counting it for #WindowFriday
This is Water Holes slot canyon in Page Arizona. You need a permit from the native people to go there, and I think it may be shut down for covid - but it's like Antelope Canyon without the hoards.
For more adventures, check out https://rvnomadphotos.com
#Fensterfreitag #Friday #SlotCanyons #Rock #Geology #Arizona #Southwest #Travel #RVNomad #Explore #Red #RedRock #Desert #OffTheBeatenPath
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with #KBUF now closed until 11AM EST Wednesday and my flight to Chicago at 12PM EST Wednesday and #Southwest melting down in general, not liking my changes of flying home #TravelerTales
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A Cowboy at the Tucson Rodeo.
#Cowboy #Rodeo #Photography #horses #Arizona #USA #rvnomad #southwest #Arizona #horse #photography #Yellowstone #yeehaw #Country #friday #fridayphotos #buck #saddleup #sony #truckyea
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Down a long, dirt, not very good road in Sun Valley Arizona - near the Petrified Forest National Park... is Reverend Lawless' Uranium Springs.
It's a dystopian community of engineers and builders that spend their free time in a Mad Max like post apocalyptic civilization.
#rust #strange #photography #travel #desert #southwest #madmax #fallout #kink #cosplay #apocalypse #twitterpurge #pepsi #rvlife
#interestingplaces #usa #roadtrip #explore -
Calf Creek Canyon in Boulder, Utah is stunning. Lush green trees carve through deep red rock covered in otherworldly looking dramatic hoodoos.
It's a river of trees.
#canyon #trees #mondaymotivation #boulder #utah #photography #travel #usa #unitedstates #travelphotography #calfcreek #blm #southwest #amazingplaces #landscapes #landscapephotography #interestingplaces #roadsideamerica #natgeo
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This is the sculpture that helped me to appreciate sculpture - and large scale art installations.
This, and many similar sculptures are out in the desert ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada
#ghosts #scultpure #art #photography #dark #night #nightphotography #rhyolite #desert #southwest #explore #silentsunday #ghosttown #creepy #wander
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I see things like this all around and every time I hear Jeff Goldblum in my head.
"Life finds a way"
#BryceCanyon #NationalParks #Utah #landscape #trees #canyons #christmastree #life #photography #saturday #rvtravel #travel #travelphotography #interestingplaces #roadsideamerica #southwest #geology #geologyrocks #lifefindsaway #jeffgoldblum #jurassicpark #nomad #usa #america #beautifulamerica
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This is Hanksville, Utah. It's a place unlike any other on Earth. It's actually much more similar to Mars.
Home of the legendary Factory Butte and Swingarm City.
#geologyrocks #utah #photo #monday #photomonday #landscapephotography #utahisrad #photoshop #travel #nomad #rvlife #rvnomad #cybermonday #explore #southwest #americansouthwest #offroad #dirtbikes #swingarmcity #atv #smokeweedeveryday
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We could be in offices, climbing a meaningless ladder to nowhere - waiting for a promotion that will almost certainly be thwarted by a massive quarterly reorg... but we're not.
I don't want to work 9-5 all week for the privilege of spending my weekends at Home Depot.
I'd rather be out here, living simply and exploring with her, so I am.
#southwest #rvnomad #nomad #rvlife #exploreyourworld #desertgirls #gypsy #rvlifestyle #travel #outdoors #hiking #blackandwhite #photography #bnw
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We're at 7000ft above sea level. Why then, are there fossilized seashells all over the ground?
Hole in the Rock Road, Kanab County, Utah.
#kanab #holeintherock #rockformations #geologyrocks #geology #utah #utahrocks #rocks #rvnomad #rvlife #rvtravel #southwest #usa #america #photography #photoshop #landscapephotography #explore #roadtrip