The Pueblo Farming Project
Preface
Acknowledgments
1
Introduction
1.1
What was the PFP?
History of the Pueblo Farming Project: 2004 – Today
1.2
Who were the participants?
1.3
Where did the PFP take place?
1.4
Who funded the PFP?
2
The story of maize
2.1
Origins
2.2
The people of corn
2.3
A world of corn
3
The life cycles of maize
3.1
The Hopi life cycle of maize
3.2
The phenology of maize
4
What maize needs to flourish
4.1
Soils and water
What are soils?
Drought
Soils in the PFP gardens
4.2
Heat and sunlight
Weather in Cortez
5
The PFP field experiments
5.1
Procedure
Planting
Monitoring
Harvesting
5.2
Results
Maize growth
Maize yield
Ear diversity
Maize genetics
6
What we learned
7
Lesson plans
7.1
The People of Corn
7.2
Farming Through Drought
7.3
Know Your Soil
7.4
Ancient Technologies
7.5
The Short Blue Ear
Funded in part by the
Published with
The Pueblo Farming Project
Chapter 5
The PFP field experiments
Examining the results of the previous year’s yield.
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