The ‘stock cropper’ method—raising chickens, hogs, and sheep between rows of grains—promises much-needed change to the farm landscape. Now it’s on the verge of scaling up.
For 1,000 years, homes dug into a desert cliff have sheltered olive farmers and sheep herders from summer heat and winter cold. But an exodus threatens its future. “We are left alone here.”
In California and across the drought-parched West, programs are springing up to help goats, sheep, and cattle eat down the plants that would otherwise become fuel for wildfires.
