That's because David and Karen Barfield, who started planting seedlings on their 25-acre Montgomery County farm 12 years ago, had no irrigation system to combat the historic drought and endless 100-degree summer days.
Now, barely two years after Karen Barfield retired to work the farm, she has returned full-time to her job selling explosion-proof enclosures to the oil industry. David Barfield has increased his hours doing part-time electronic work. Instead of selling some 400 homegrown trees as they do in a good
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