Gardeners and farmers spend a lot of time looking up, for the weather, and down, for the growing things.
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I (Xan) had to go back a few years to find photos with snow, as we’ve had less than 5 inches in Chicago this year!
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Farmers are the weather surfers of humanity…trying to pick what is going to happen from year to year when the experts can’t even agree has to be the most sincere form of optimism. I recently read a post about a farmer in Queensland who was just about to give up. The extended dry season had robbed her farm of fodder and she had to sell her cows at a loss…she was just about to sell the last of her cows to prevent them from starving and suddenly a cyclone crested the top end of Australia and drenched/drowned Queensland and she is now under water! Farmers need medals!