Daily Life In and Around the Farm

This website and links document a threshold generation. It was still communal, still embodied, and still land-literate, but already mechanized, electrified, and connected to regional systems. It’s the last moment where everything fits inside one family’s understanding. Although this section us called daily life, the tasks would change with the seasons.

Among other things of the time, irrigation changed everything. There was more yield, yes, but also more cost, more labor, and more constraint (no vacations, pipes twice a day). In some cases, no net gain, just a different kind of work

And the kicker — the land that already had sub-irrigation is where the irrigation was installed, while higher ground that needed it more never got it. That’s not hindsight judgment; that’s lived complexity in the face of the then unknown. Electricity changed time, irrigation changed obligation, and both created dependence as much as abundance.

Next dirt roads to travel:

The plants and animals around Brice are a very specific ecological mix — where short-grass prairie, sandy draws, and disturbed farmland overlap.
The Animals of Brice

The plants and animals around Brice are a very specific ecological mix — where short-grass prairie, sandy draws, and disturbed farmland overlap.
The Plants of Brice

This is an exploration of the history of Brice, Lakeview, Clarendon, and Lakeview in the years between 1935-1960.
Life in Brice and the Importance of Interdependence