00:00A huge rush of water came down the valley and within about 40 minutes it was up into
00:05the garden, the shed was floating, it started to come into the house. It's a
00:10feeling of hopelessness and disbelief that it's happening to you. As the houses
00:17became livable in and we started to move on we started to think well why did
00:21this flood happen and is there anything that we could do to help stop the flood
00:28in the future.
00:37Every winter we'll do somewhere between 10 and 12 thousand trees planted. I'd like to turn every single fence on the farm into a double fence with hedge in it and then the other thing we're doing is subdividing bigger fields with hedges.
00:52Having read lots of books and done lots of research, I suppose it's the regenerative agriculture type movement but really it's about rotating stock around. If you're looking after your soil, soil health being a big part of it. So the way of managing, keeping the water on the land when we need it and off the land when we don't want it.
01:09You have to keep the water from running across the surface. If the water is in the ground, it percolates down into the river system slowly.
01:18We need the government or somebody, councils, to really step up and say how can we help.
01:26and now let's leave.
01:35And if the water is in the ground or multiple fields of edging, it's very inexpensive and so we mightak people with medical support and so on and maximize the cost of this time.
01:44And so this is pretty damn habían takiego psychological way as being ready for the water, so that we ate awesome for authenticity.
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