When we acquired the farm, we began the process of demolishing all the old structures that were to be kind in poor condition. One step was to bury all the concrete and non-compostable material. Our digger operator made a comment about the soil composition in our farm yard, that we had topsoil of two feet and then clay for 10 and then loose gravel. When it came time to build the new farm buildings we consulted with a hydraulic engineer who recommended that we have a very deep rainwater catchment system. In the past rainwater would be dealt with shallow pits, but with our soil composition that was not a good solution, so instead we built very deep water cisterns that would percolate the water below the clay. The result is that we hardly ever have humidity problems in our buildings.
The weather for the past 24 hours has been challenging. Granted compared to what they got on the West and South Coasts we have been largely fine, but it remains that heavy downpours every few weeks is hard for the land to absorb, we see it on the old farm creek where the water level is still a good meter higher than it should be (and yes we did repair the equipment bridge).
Stil these violent storms seem more frequent than in the past!
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