We live on a mesa, which is one of the foothills of the Uncompahgre Plateau

We are an arid land, but made rich and green by melted snow rushing its way through the Black Canyon, then into Gunnison tunnel, and finally through a complicated canal system which irrigates fertile farm and ranch lands.

You can see Delta in the valley and Eckert all the way to Cedaredge going up the side of Grand Mesa (the largest flat top mountain in the world)

During WWII farming was America’s’ biggest war industry.  On more than six million farms, something like 30 million people-men and boys, women and girls-worked. 

  Today less than 2% of America’s industry is farming.

The Uncompahgre Plateau is in the background with one of the apricot trees in the forefront

Twenty two million American workers produce, process, sell and trade and … live on farms– slightly less than 2 percent of the total U.S. Population

It’s a good life. 

And that’s all anyone can ask for.

For the last in the series about the bank robbery head over here.

Linda