Let’s say
you plant an orchard and then the rain doesn’t come. Your orchard does not have
a well, and it is far from the main road. How do you cope?
The Eden’s
Rise solution has been to carry water through the woods to the back acre slice
that is the orchard. It’s not an elegant solution, but a working one until I
can convince the sky to drop some water down into the field and find a way of
collecting it.
We are
expecting rain today, at last. All the plants are trembling with excitement
(or is that the wind?). As you can probably see from the picture of my plum
tree, the leaves are hanging a little low and look visibly dehydrated. Carrying
water back in a large barrel is all right if you just want your trees to survive,
but I am convinced had they had proper water this past month they would have
grown twice as much. Every day I’ve been worryingly watching the forecast, rain kept disappearing further and further away. I know that I can’t hope to
have my trees strong and healthy if I cannot deliver a proper soaking at least
once a week. The weather for the past two weeks has been hot, dry, and sunny.
Today I am
holding my breath until the rain comes, then I’m counting each drop of rain
like a blessing.
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