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From the Sky, You Can See Who Built America

From the Sky, You Can See Who Built America
An aerial view of farmland thatfar is irrigated by the water from the nearby Colorado River, near Yuma, Ariz., on May 25, 2023. Mario Tama/Getty Images
Mollie Engelhart
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As I flew from Texas to Utah, I looked down at the quilt of patchwork fields spread out beneath me. Pivot circles, fence lines, dirt roads, irrigation ditches, thousands of small farms stitched together across the land. From 30,000 feet in the air, you can see generations of labor written onto the earth.

Mollie Engelhart
Mollie Engelhart
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Mollie Engelhart, regenerative farmer and rancher at Sovereignty Ranch, is committed to food sovereignty, soil regeneration, and educating on homesteading and self-sufficiency. She is the author of “Debunked by Nature”: Debunk Everything You Thought You Knew About Food, Farming, and Freedom—a raw, riveting account of her journey from vegan chef and LA restaurateur to hands-in-the-dirt farmer, and how nature shattered her cultural programming.