Published: October 05, 2018
Farmers aren’t waiting for handouts. They’re using new and very old farming practice to ensure the land survives
At first the days are fine but slowly the dry expands and then hollows out. A realisation creeps up and niggles. Is this it? There is an optimism from knowing it will rain again, while banishing the seed of doubt about when.
But when every day dawns, you open your eyes and that seed of doubt grows, nurtured by dread. More than anything, it’s the silence. It is as if the natural energy is sucked out of the landscape and there is nothing left.
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