Green sprouts
Pristine immersion
Crawfish feast
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Rice has been a mainstay of Louisiana agriculture since the 18th century. For years, crawfish was a wild product, harvested mostly in the Atchafalaya Basin between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. In the 1970s and ’80s, farmers realized they could make extra money managing the crawfish that already lived in their flooded rice fields. South Louisiana has over 125,000 acres of crawfish ponds coexisting. At one time, rice was grown for the crop. It seems turning the fields into crawfish ponds is more lucrative. For those farmers, the rice is now grown for the crawfish.
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© rgb for “On Dragonfly Wings with Buttercup Tea”, 2011 – 2013
Prompt:
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Rice planting
"On Dragonfly Wings with Buttercup Tea" 
Thank you for the lovely haiku and lesson in Louisiana agriculture. Do Crawfish make good sushi?
Rice Planting
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Hmmm, I am sure they do — however, I don’t get Sushi much where I live Texas, and especially made with crawfish … will check on it the next trip “home”!
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fascinating stuff…..and a beautifully worded haiku
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And don’t forget feasting on the crawfish (or maybe that’s what you meant!).
Rice Planters
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I feel like singing! “Jambalaya, crawfish pie, filé gumbo…” Plenty of Texans are happy for your rice/crawfish fields, too. I must say – “pristine immersion” is a fun phrase to use in a poem about mudbugs!
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