Genealogy Journey's Podcast #18: The Harvest

Mccoy's Farm. Missouri State Archives via Flickr the Commons, https://flic.kr/p/a3EKkT

Today's podcast is about the harvest. Farming ancestors? It's time to learn more about their lives. As genealogists we too often discount our farming ancestors as "just farmers." But in reality there's much to learn from their lives. Better yet, there's much to write about.

REFERENCES

Moon

From Strawberries to Wolves, See the Full Moon Names of 2016  by Joe Rao 

Wikipedia - Harvest Moon 

Moon Phases 2016 – Lunar Calendar

Drought, insects, fungus

The Effect of the Drought on Insects  by Kathy Keatley Garvey 

Insects in Drought Conditions by Ian MacRae (PPT slides)

Role of Drought in Outbreaks of Plant-Eating Insects by William J. Mattson and Robert A. Haack 

Wikipedia - Dust Bowl 

Ten Agricultural Inventions that Changed the Face of Farming in America by Sam Moore

Farm Life at the Turn of the Century: A Personal Perspective: The Farmer by Frank Jahn 

Life on the Farm 

Oklahoma Historical Society, “Harvest”

Iowa Pathways, “Early Agriculture”

Wikipedia - History of Agriculture in America (not fully sourced)

Farmer’s Almanac

Dale Taylor, Everyday Life in Colonial America: From 1607-1783, Cincinnati, OH: Writer’s Digest Books, 1997.