Most farmers calculate their water use in acre-feet. Each acre-foot is an acre of water a foot deep, which is 43,560 cubic feet of water, or 3.25 million gallons. Most crops here in New Mexico require millions of gallons of the world’s most precious resource per acre. The bright sun evaporates much more water from the earth than the clouds rain down. In it’s first year my farm used less than a tenth of an acre-foot on not quite two acres of Navajo tea greenthread. The first year of this crop is the most water-intensive year, when the perennial plant starts from seed. When you purchase my herb
, you are supporting a whole new kind of agriculture among the plateaus. Thanks for that!