IDK, depends on what you're producing. Our local CSA has salad green fields in riverbottom land. They seem to do okay. But then, they aren't dumping phosphates all over the place, much less anything remotely toxic... I suspect in 20 years plus of being there they've learnt to deal with it effectively.
The Egyptians used to _rely_ on the Nile flooding to make their rice paddies. The Viet and Chinese to this day rely on the monsoon floods similarly. Both practice somewhat more modern irrigation ducting techniques, but...
The real trick here is not to work *against* nature, but *with* it. Same mistake they're making in Nawlins...
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Date: 2020-01-20 05:49 am (UTC)The Egyptians used to _rely_ on the Nile flooding to make their rice paddies. The Viet and Chinese to this day rely on the monsoon floods similarly. Both practice somewhat more modern irrigation ducting techniques, but...
The real trick here is not to work *against* nature, but *with* it. Same mistake they're making in Nawlins...