Presenter: Patti Osebold

During the time of WWII in the hot, dry, high mountain desert of Wyoming, several root cellars were built to store what was to be enough food for 10,000 people to live on for one and a half years.  And these root cellars were to be built by prisoners who were forced out of their own land from places like California, Oregon and Washington to go into prison camps to live for 3-4 years.  These prisoners were men, women and children.  Plus, the food had to be grown by them in the soil of these desert places where nothing but sage brush grows. What they managed to grow were called “miracle crops”.

Find out why and how this was possible in our United States of America.

Please join us in the Adult Ed room 13.