You can see photos of the damage which the recent torrential rain caused to our farm roads in
this post over here. The photo above was taken after the rain had stopped (but only for a day or two before coming down again - ha !), to show some of the rain damage to our actual farm lands i.e. where our crops are planted. You can imagine the damage in areas of the country where no form of crop rotation is practiced, where the land is overgrazed and trees are continually being chopped down and not replanted - disastrous !
Desperate times call for desperate measures, so we had to hire a bulldozer in from the city. It was delivered on a flat bed truck - which made it as far as our farm turn off (see photo above), but could not make it up the actual farm road, so the bulldozer had to be offloaded at the bottom of the road (see photo below).
The rain then continued to bucket down for a few more days, and it was so wet that even the bulldozer couldn't do any work .... so the poor driver sat up at our staff quarters waiting for some sunshine and drier conditions ... which eventually came .... and he set to work (as pictured below).
It's school holiday's for us at the moment, so our daughter had fun going out on the farm with her daddy one morning, and watching the bulldozer doing his work. I don't think you could beat the great views he had around him as he carried out his work (see photo below) - which hopefully made up for the several days he was 'stranded' on our farm, waiting for the rain to stop !
Since then, the rain has continued - more rain than we've ever had in the 5 years we've lived on the farm. Everything is damp and we've had leaking ceilings and even a flooded bedroom ! Some of our crops - the seeds - have to be planted at a certain depth under the soil & my husband is worried that the sheer force of the rain may have pushed the seed deeper into the soil .... which will cause a problem when it germinates ..... but only time will tell .... and until then, well - I think I may have to really start work on building that boat I mentioned a while back - so that we can 'float' in to the city to get supplies if we need to !
You can see photos of the damage which the recent torrential rain caused to our farm roads in this post over here. The photo above was taken after the rain had stopped (but only for a day or two before coming down again - ha !), to show some of the rain damage to our actual farm lands i.e. where our crops are planted. You can imagine the damage in areas of the country where no form of crop rotation is practiced, where the land is overgrazed and trees are continually being chopped down and not replanted - disastrous !
Desperate times call for desperate measures, so we had to hire a bulldozer in from the city. It was delivered on a flat bed truck - which made it as far as our farm turn off (see photo above), but could not make it up the actual farm road, so the bulldozer had to be offloaded at the bottom of the road (see photo below).
The rain then continued to bucket down for a few more days, and it was so wet that even the bulldozer couldn't do any work .... so the poor driver sat up at our staff quarters waiting for some sunshine and drier conditions ... which eventually came .... and he set to work (as pictured below).
It's school holiday's for us at the moment, so our daughter had fun going out on the farm with her daddy one morning, and watching the bulldozer doing his work. I don't think you could beat the great views he had around him as he carried out his work (see photo below) - which hopefully made up for the several days he was 'stranded' on our farm, waiting for the rain to stop !
Since then, the rain has continued - more rain than we've ever had in the 5 years we've lived on the farm. Everything is damp and we've had leaking ceilings and even a flooded bedroom ! Some of our crops - the seeds - have to be planted at a certain depth under the soil & my husband is worried that the sheer force of the rain may have pushed the seed deeper into the soil .... which will cause a problem when it germinates ..... but only time will tell .... and until then, well - I think I may have to really start work on building that boat I mentioned a while back - so that we can 'float' in to the city to get supplies if we need to ! 
