Skip to main content
Home

Arid Agriculture

Feeding People and Livestock with Minimal Water
  • Login
  • Home
  • Books
  • Diseases
  • Institutions
  • Journals
  • People
  • Pests
  • Posts
  • Research
  • Videos
  • Water
  • About
    • Contact Us
  • Crops
  • New Content
Not all of these crops are commercially viable. Some are considered weeds in many countries. They appear here because of potential uses and existing studies that show promise as livestock feeds and pharmaceutical extracts.
Displaying 41 - 41 of 41 crops.
Crop Photo Description
Cereus peruvianus
(Peruvian apple cactus)
With an often tree-like appearance, its cylindrical gray-green to blue stems can reach 10 metres (33 feet) in height and 10–20 cm in diameter as a self-supporting plant. However, if supported by a scaffold, C. repandus has grown to a height of 110 feet (34 meters) at the SDM College of Dental Sciences at Dharwad, Karnataka, India, technically making this the tallest cactus plant in the world, although no cactus under natural conditions exceeds eighty-two feet (25 meters) in height in the case of Cereus stenogonus. There are nine to ten rounded ribs that are up to...

Pages

  • « first
  • ‹ previous
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
Date Type Title/Summary
04/15/2026 Farm Log 04/14/2026 Work Done and Observations

Work done:

  • Mostly watering. Terrible winds again. 

Observations:

  • Sprinklers INSIDE of a swale did not show much deflection in spite of very
    • ...
04/13/2026 Farm Log 04/13/2026 Work Done and Observations

Work done:

  • Watered the Jerusalem artichoke and gourd swale.
  • Watered one millet swale and part of the second millet swale.
  • Weeding when possible in
    • ...
04/12/2026 Farm Log 04/12/2026 Work Done and Observations

Work done:

  • Watered various swales before wind came up.
  • Put the pipes back up.

Observations:

  •  

 
04/12/2026 Farm Log 04/11/2026 Work Done and Observations

Work done:

  • Soaking organic ginger and other seeds inside and next to large pyramid.
  • Watering various swales.

Observations:

  • Hose in backyard broken.
    • ...
04/10/2026 Farm Log 04/05/2026 through 04/10/2026 Work Done and Observations

Work done:

  • Planted millet in two swales
  • Planted melons and watermelons in a swale.
  • Planted Jerusalem artichokes and squash in a swale.
  • Watered cactus
    • ...

Pages

  • « first
  • ‹ previous
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • …
  • next ›
  • last »

Information on this web site is provided "as-is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusions of implied warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to you.

FAIR USE

This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of issues of scientific, historical and educational significance. We believe this constitutes a fair use of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond ‘fair use’, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.