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In case anyone is interested (you should be, in a general and food security sense), here is the kind of information I'm dealing with as a board member of Dairy NSW. Dairy is just one agricultural sector that DPIRD has done climate vulnerability assessments for.
https://www.dpird.nsw.gov.au/dpi/climate/climate-vulnerability-assessment/
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A word of advice: *do not* accidentally wash your expensive LEDLenser head torch with your clothes. You will *fuck* the battery, even after a night of the battery and torch sitting in a tub of rice.
I've ordered a new battery, and I *think* it will work again. TBC.
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Just rural road things.
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Dairy. 3am. Bega is on the other side of the hill.
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That’s an efficient day’s work done. 0400-0930 with the cows at the farm, then home to harvest a fallen tree, stacking the logs in storage, and then splitting a week of firewood and bringing it to the rack by the back door.
It hasn’t rained in a few weeks, so I’m also dropping about 10,000l of water from our header tanks up the hill to the house, but gravity is doing the work there; I just need to watch the gauge and shut the valve when it’s time. -
New hat. Legit going to be able to pass as a local now.
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Spending a couple of days in Camden on Sydney’s rural outskirts for Dairy NSW board meetings and meetings with NSW farmers.
As cities overtake these formerly separate towns, and they transform into semirural exurbs, you wonder what they become as pressure to be more city than country increases.
The hotel we’re at is clearly a community, social, and business hub and is busy every day. It obviously performs an important role here.
As a former city person, the cycle of rural life, the very significant effects felt because of political disconnect and geopolitical instability, the “vibe” of rural towns, and the gap in culture between city and country is something I still feel very clearly; I urge my city friends to ask their country family, friends, and acquaintances how they’re doing and what lies topmost in their concerns, because they’re very different to those in the city.