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My home as a child had been a duck farm. My father converted it to an orange trees (and all kind of vegetables) orchard, it was 3k m2 (that's almost eight acres
by narag 5y ago
My home as a child had been a duck farm. My father converted it to an orange trees (and all kind of vegetables) orchard, it was 3k m2 (that's almost eight acres) so we had plenty of space.
It was hypnotic watching the sharecropper, with just a hoe, directing the water from the reservoir to all the trees, lettuces, watermellons... I wonder if those skills were transmited from generation to generation for centuries. With modern irrigation systems, I guess they're being lost.
- danuker 5y ago> With modern irrigation systems, I guess they're being lost Probably for good reason. Manually dug irrigation trenches are back-breaking labor.
- narag 5y agoMaybe for huge orchards, but I said it was hypnotic because it was more of a technical work. Once the trenches are in place (and they can be made with a tractor) the only work is one move with the hoe to switch the water flow from one trench to the next. I was a child and the guy allowed me to try it once. I succeded just with three loads of dirt instead of one.