Onion Harvest

If you’re not an engineer or farmer or agronomist, an onion harvester looks like a bunch of random bits of metal slapped together—knobby, angular, lots of sharp edges, vaguely resembling the Apollo moon lander. Or, on second glance, a rocket launcher. The machine...

Refuge in Walmart

I’m looking for rubber dinosaurs. My nephews are obsessed with them. Seems like I’m in the right place, Walmart in Ontario, Oregon, a high desert town in onion, potato and sugar beet country on the Snake River, right up against Idaho. I pass a shelf piled with little...