The Last Days Of The Rainbelt Alice Percy Claudia Lucero shows step by

Claudia Lucero shows step by step (with every step photographed) how to make 16 fresh cheeses at home

and grow abundant produce year-round in any climate

Complete with stunning wildlife photographs and an appendix of practical resources

she boosts each dish with scientifically lauded superfoods like chia

including gourd carving and chair making

The Last Days Of The Rainbelt Alice Percy Claudia Lucero shows step byLooking over the vast open plains of eastern Colorado, western Kansas, and southwestern Nebraska, where one can travel miles without seeing a town or even a house, it is hard to imagine the crowded landscape of the last decades of the 19th century. In those days, farmers, speculators, and town builders flooded the region, believing rain would follow the plow and that the "Rainbelt" would become their agricultural Eden. Drought and economic turmoil