irrigation

The research team is also refining vineyard management techniques, such as leaf removal, fertilization, and irrigation, to further enhance grape quality.

Early farmers likely took advantage of this consistent flow by digging short canals to irrigate fields and date groves, allowing for productive farming without massive irrigation projects.

The plants are growing lustily in late summer, although Kolding only waters them once a week on Saturdays for an hour with drip irrigation.

As Ms. Gaul shows through wide-ranging detective work, Egyptian farmers were obliged to rely on artificial fertilizers and year-round irrigation after successive efforts to dam the Nile eventually shut down the river’s age-old fertilization cycle.

Williams said those irrigation methods worked in concert with nature, the exact opposite of how Los Angeles has drilled wells to extract water that Mother Earth accumulated over centuries in her “womb.”