Preparing the field. Wellton-Mohawk Valley, Arizona

The Wellton-Mohawk Valley is one of those places where you can feel the desert pressing in around you, a ribbon of irrigated green no more than 3 miles wide along the Gila River in southwestern Arizona. The last of the winter vegetables are done, and farmers are getting the ground ready for their spring-summer cover crops. This is Colorado River water, diverted at the east side of Imperial Dam into the Gila Main Gravity Canal.