Gardeners on the High Plains know that even after watering their plants, there’s a good chance that the heat will dry up the moisture before too long. But dirt that undergoes the wet/dry cycle repeatedly begins to harden into something we call soil crust. In this week’s episode, we’ll talk about how this process occurs, and what you can do about it in your own garden!

Hunting wild hogs isn’t easy; you’re keeping some odd hours, and working in the dark, because the light will spook your prey. But Luke may have found a good solution that sheds some light on the entire process…this week, we’ll check out the new Hogfader Feeder Lights, and see how they performed!

Hi, I’m Tarfia Faizullah, here for Poets on the Plains. Today, I feel a bit sheepish sharing one of my own poems, but it’s a poem that serves as a snapshot of my own life, so I’m excited to share it, and share about it. I am the author of two full length poetry collections with a third on the way, and I teach creative writing at UNT.

After the U.S. Government encouraged the extermination of approximately 30- 60 million bison on the Great Plains, and before the cattle barons built their huge herds, there stood a brief time when sheep grazed on the lush grasses of the Texas Panhandle. For many years prior to 1874, sheep from the New Mexico Territory, Spanish settlers and Indigenous sheep farmers herded sheep along the Canadian River. The Spanish called them “Pastores.”