Freak weather, heavy rainfall during the traditionally dry months of the year is really hampering work on the land. With climate change and the global shift in weather patterns it seems like we're getting more rainfall than ever, whatever happened to the promise of dry and hot sunshine to compliment the rise in greenhouse gases is beyond me. But hey the only consolation is that as people working close to the land, any small shift in weather pattern makes us more aware of how fleeting nature is and how we’re just little minions of planet earth so very small and insignificant.
Putting in strategies in a bid to help soften the extremities of weather will be one of our greatest challenge. We’re in for stretches of hotter days with bursts of very heavy rainfall, the soil condition will suffer, the plants stressed, extremities are never a welcome sign for the agricultural sector which thrives on consistency.
Building a rubble retaining wall for our swales
A half dug swale flooded, well good to know that it works
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