Tell us, uh, the kind of farming in which they engaged and what was necessary, uh, to make it happen, to make it work.

Well, dry land farming, um, y- we had to do things like, uh, preserve what water there was in the land, so we rotated crops.

Um, you didn't plant a field every year, just every other year, and, um, that helped save on it.

Um, that many years ago, um, people today can't remember or are too young to have known that before climate warming, we had a lot of snow, and we did count on the snow for moisture.

Um, we built a reservoir between two hills to collect water, um, and we [laughs] had to pick a lot of rocks off of our land, so we used the rocks to make a, a dam to keep the water in.

That was the only water that we had on our land.

Um, otherwise, um, there was a pump, um, two miles away, and, uh, we had to carry water, buckets of water, um, back home [laughs] from pumping it on a well.

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