Tilling the Soil - A Thanksgiving Episode

About this episode

This episode discusses the impact of the Dust Bowl and the importance of sustainable land management.

In the midst of the Dust Bowl—an agricultural catastrophe that decimated crops and devastated the livelihoods of thousands of Oklahomans—President Franklin D. Roosevelt warned, “The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.” Fueled by a lack of understanding about sustainable land management and the heightened demand for food during World War I, once-fertile plains were transformed into barren deserts—a tragedy immortalized in Dorothea Lange’s iconic “Migrant Mother” photograph and John ...

People in this episode

Host: Carrie Caton

Topics covered

• sustainable land management
• Dust Bowl
• agricultural catastrophe
• World War I
• Oklahoma history

Keywords

• Dust Bowl
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• sustainable agriculture
• Oklahoma
• Migrant Mother

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Migrant Mother

Places: Oklahoma

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