At the time, there was a glut of agave, so many farmers let their fields go fallow.

Remnants of the Buyur, this world's last legal tenants, who departed half a million years ago when Jijo went fallow.

The official reason was to allow great tracts of stars to "go fallow" for an era, to give their planets time to develop new pre-sentient life.

They are the once-welcoming farmsteads - houses, barns, corncribs - that have slowly gone fallow, like land.

The once formal gardens have long gone fallow and today Chorley Park is a 'naturalized' park.

Untended farmland generally goes fallow, as they say.

You can't see it go fallow when you're reminded that the Longstreets have held Sweetwater for the best part of two centuries.

The great farms on the plains that ran from Canada to Texas would go fallow, though some would grow wild wheat for centuries to come.

Entire neighborhoods had been bulldozed under and left to go fallow when the survivors of the Turn fled to the cities.