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.
The steel plow had just been invented and it ripped through the top soil and grass. This made the earth and soil VERY loose. The dirt created the dust bowl, because all over farmers were buying the steel plows, they were less work. During the dust bowl dust and soil covered EVERYTHING in the south. The farmers couldn't hardly keep anything they planted alive because it would be covered in dirt. Dust storms killed alot of crop and covered not only crop but houses. So it affected farmers by killing crop. At lease if the farmers were in the south it did. They could not pay their loans or afford to buy basics.
No
Oklahoma Dust Bowl farmers who migrated to California to find work.
Farmers did not practice crop rotation.
They did stuff
1930
migrants
The "Dust Bowl"
Many lost their farms.
to California
Because of the dust bowl duststorm
They were unable to pay their debts.
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.