5d (edited) • Family Permaculture
knowledge Vs experience
I sadly have to admit if you want to know a fact the best and most effective way is to ask my wife's boyfriend (chat GPT) he gives reliable answers and is charming at the same time. If you want to know what it feels like to smell rain , even a light drizzle, after a prolonged drought, you need to experience it.
Experience tells me this rain will make no difference to the moisture in the soil, and won't save dieing trees, but I feel uplifting and encouraged that rain is possible.
The experience of a catastrophic event gives an opportunity to reassess and make a better system, or in my case perhaps downsize to a concentration of plants more easily manageable in a crisis.
The year has show weak points and how delicate balance tips quickly, at the beginning of the year we had too much water and it looked like a lush paradise everywhere, and I thought it would be the best year ever. Now it's a scorched dieing landscape, limp mature trees with yellowing leaves . Some parts have remained green, obviously the areas with reserves of water and deeper soil .
So the next step is to take this experience and use it to replant more appropriate plants and to prioritise the more resilient areas. Find better ways to preserve water and increase shade.
History and experience are intwined and I know that the last great drought in 1976 was followed by extensive flooding in October.
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