What I Learned from The Plant World

I grew up on a farm so you would expect me to know something about plants. However, south Texas was experiencing the worst drought in history for much of my childhood. Though the drought we're in right now is more severe than the 1950s drought, the earlier one is considered the worst because it lasted so long—more than seven years.

My father turned to chicken farming after it became impossible to grow crops or provide feed and water to the cattle. He even gave up growing his beloved vegetable gar