The land where our main orchard is, is pretty rough dirt. I friend calls it, "Dragon excrement." We have been reclaiming it form alkali for years, but the trees still struggle. So, we are trying something new. We are pulling leaf samples for analysis, then we are applying foliar nutrients. This way the nutrients go straight into the plant, instead of the dirt where the roots have to wrestle it out of tough ground. It is expensive. First, we bought a used sprayer. Then foliar fertilizers are the most expensive way to fertilize. But, this dirt is so tough it is going to take extreme measures to make these fields as productive as they can be.
Now back to my opening title- If they really believe in climate change...my dear environmental friends have some choices to make.
First- if they really believe in
climate change they should support building more reservoirs in California. Our
precipitation will not becoming in the form of snow. When it comes in rainfall
it will rush down the mountainsides, into the rivers and out to the oceans
faster than ever. So we need reservoirs to do the job snow did before and
capture some of that rainfall for our thirsty cities and farms.
Second- if I understand correctly,
the number one remedy to climate change is to lower our carbon emissions. When
it comes to food, activists want us to buy food grown within a few hundred
miles of where it was grown instead of shipping water all over the planet.
Guess what? Where can you grow food within a few hundred miles of the millions of
people who live in the Bay Area and Southern California? That’s right!
Here in the Valley!
So, if they really believe in climate change, environmental
friends should be helping farmers get more water, not strangling us slowly.
But, I suspect they have other concerns.
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