Not a drop of rain in sight since the last year.. when did we including our neighbours last receive heavy rain?
Each day I travelled to work in the city of Hamilton or other towns – Cambridge, Te Awamutu and noticed many farmlands are going brown quickly.
Take another look at the photos –
A couple photos of cows in our neighbour’s share farm land. There are no sight of green grass for cows except for weeds that cows loves to eat plants. Not the poisonous weeds. In our vegetable garden, there is some sight of green weeds among the brown grass.
Here is couple photos of our section under the trees.
There is a mixture of brownish and green around our large property. Most of the green grass is shelter by the shade which prevent from drying out in the harsh sun.
When you walk and you could hear the crushing sound coming from your shoes where I cannot hear, BUT to feel the crushing movement under my feet for I know it is scorched as tinder leaves.
From mid-2019 to the present year, it is becoming more dry and less rain as we noticed the difference from 2014 when we moved here. Over the winter season, there was less rainfall – less than 40mm in a month while the next month was 10mm a month.
The farmers here are planning to install a large water storage pond which stored water for emergency. There is a catch – the high cost of making a large water storage pond, the materials such as irrigations, black liners and the paying of the delivery water from one supplier.
For me, I am careful when I do watering the vegetables gardens and flowers/herb garden sections. It is essential to think about what kind of vegetable plants, flowers, herbs, even young fruit trees can withstand less water or more water feed. Every two or three evenings, I watered the gardens for one hour and any other days I do hand water from the bucket in the greenhouse. We do have a couple large water tanks plus bore water with the hand pump via the pump hut here. We have two options to switch on and use water from the storage tank via Council Reservoir or switch off and to use the hand pump from our ground bore water. So far, we have not to use the hand pump to take bore water yet.
Are we people facing global climate warming, or is it “mankind” destroy the climate and environment?
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