I spent several summers on my grandfather’s berry farm in the Skagit Valley sixty miles north of Seattle. To irrigate his water-hungry crops, he had drilled a well in the 1950s. The water was conducted to the fields through 20-feet long pipes that had to be laid between the rows and assembled with their connectors More

The post Heavy Metal appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

This post was originally published on CounterPunch.org.