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Looking over the Juan de Herrera canal. This field was planted ...
We lost these cactus in the big freeze several years ago, but ...
This tree is actually from South Texas and was transplanted. It ...
This is a swarm of honey bees.
Mesquite trees provide pollen for honey bees, edible pods ...
Pomegranate trees can be found in many El Paso yards.
This cactus blooms on long stalks that are much taller than the ...
We call these rainflowers because no matter how much you water ...
This fellow was up on the ditch bank one day back in the early ...
Probably the largest snake we have seen near our place.
Not the first site in El Paso. This one is now a trucking ...
The Irrigation district has put these in to pump ground water ...
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Helen Orndorff, History of the Developments of Agriculture in the El Paso Valley, Unpublished M.A. thesis, Texas Western College, May 1957.
David Crowder, "From farmland to factories," El Paso Inc . June 20-26,2021 p. 1A-4A
UTEP Library Special Collections MS 157 Box 109 includes calendar entitled Time Pieces of El Paso. Description of gentleman farmer Ben L. Ivey is one page of this calendar.
Change made - thank you
In credit delete Ethel Kennedy Area is LOWER VALLEY