The mother ditch =
La acequia madre
Irrigation farming
Bilingual
Farm life
Spanish language materials
Social life and customs
Juvenile literature
Describes the summer the mother ditch went dry, a time of crisis for the Romero family, who grow fruits and vegetables by irrigation in the dry Cerrito region of New Mexico.
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