{"id":42424,"date":"2022-12-17T05:28:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T18:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=42424"},"modified":"2022-12-17T05:28:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T18:28:48","slug":"from-concrete-to-sponge-how-to-slow-the-flow-on-australias-farmland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=42424","title":{"rendered":"From \u2018concrete\u2019 to \u2018sponge\u2019: how to slow the flow on Australia\u2019s farmland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-42425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Farmland-300x136.jpg\" alt=\"Farmland\" width=\"949\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Farmland-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Farmland-1024x465.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Farmland-768x349.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Farmland-1536x698.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Farmland.jpg 1867w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite record-breaking rainfall and floods this year, eastern Australian landscapes are facing hydration issues. Slowing the flow of water on farms can help.<\/p>\n<p>The condition of our farmlands affects our lives in the most primal ways, from the water we drink, to our ability to cope with flood, fire and drought.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Stephen Dovers, chair of the science advisory committee at the Mulloon Institute, an organisation that develops and shares regenerative farming techniques, believes the state of farmland depends heavily on one issue: how well the land holds onto water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRain is an income,\u201d Dovers says. And too often, rather than banking that resource, we leave it to \u201cflow out the drain\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/vitasoy-growing-a-better-world\/2022\/oct\/19\/from-concrete-to-sponge-how-to-slow-the-flow-on-australias-farmland?utm_source=FBarticle_Vitasoy_Growingabetterworld_Sponge_art2&amp;utm_medium=FBarticle_Vitasoy_Growingabetterworld_Sponge_art2&amp;utm_campaign=FBarticle_Vitasoy_Growingabetterworld_Sponge_art2&amp;utm_id=FBarticle_Vitasoy_Growingabetterworld_Sponge_art2&amp;utm_term=FBarticle_Vitasoy_Growingabetterworld_Sponge_art2&amp;utm_content=FBarticle_Vitasoy_Growingabetterworld_Sponge_art2\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/vitasoy-growing-a-better-world\/2022\/oct\/19\/from-concrete-to-sponge-how-to-slow-the-flow-on-australias-farmland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite record-breaking rainfall and floods this year, eastern Australian landscapes are facing hydration issues. Slowing the flow of water on farms can help. The condition of our farmlands affects our lives in the most primal ways, from the water we drink, to our ability to cope with flood, fire and drought. Professor Stephen Dovers, chair &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=42424\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From \u2018concrete\u2019 to \u2018sponge\u2019: how to slow the flow on Australia\u2019s farmland&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42426,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42424\/revisions\/42426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}