I’m not sure how much advise was being given last year when the powers that be were made aware that we would be in a serious drought at this time. I wasn’t thinking like a farmer then.
I am sure if they were aware of the impending drought, no one thought it would be this bad and so no one took the time to prepare the lowly peasants for what was coming….until now of course. We are the perpetual reactionaries so forgive me if I am not at all impressed with the National Environment and Planning Agency’s (NEPA’s) effort to urge local farmers to ‘consider planting drought tolerant crops’. Shouldn’t this urging have been done before the drought began and the farmers are now losing everything they have.
Anyway, NEPA recommends such crops as sweet potato, cassava, peanut and pine because of their ability to thrive without much water.
As I am a problem solver, I will start looking at ways to help us survive. In the meantime, I am sure my fellow small space Posh Farmers are not having a major problem since they will have enough recycled water to go around.
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