Yes many people starved because the dust ruined their crops and if you didn't have enough money to buy things from the store people didn't have much sympathy for you because they had their own families to worry about.
They ate normal food, but it was covered with dust, so therefore they had to eat quickly and not save any closed food.
Also some living in the Panhandle of the Dust Bowl had little food so they even tried to eat jarred tumbleweeds, which they also fed to their sheep. (source: The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan)
During the dust bowl people mostly ate cornbread and beans.
Unsweetened corn breads, beans, greens, dry grains for cereal, cured and dried meats, preserved fruits and vegies.
little boys for pleasure
cornbread, beans and potatos
they moved
No
migrants
to California
Before the days of the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression, the area was rich, fertile farmland. During the Dust Bowl, most of the irreplaceable topsoil blew away essentially removing farming as a viable vocation in the area.
President Roosevelt and Prairie farmers played an important role in who took part in the dust bowl. Some others you might want to include are support industries who helped the farmers financially.
No
Oklahoma Dust Bowl farmers who migrated to California to find work.
Farmers did not practice crop rotation.
1930
They did stuff
migrants
The "Dust Bowl"
to California
Many lost their farms.
They were unable to pay their debts.
Because of the dust bowl duststorm
Life for California farmers during the dust bowl was horrible, the farmers would go plant their crops and when the dust bowl come their crops would be black and start to rot because they became not any good anymore.