Photo archive

35 photographs

• 2023-12The acid sulfate land as we found it
• 2023-12Waterlogged conditions
• 2024-01Starting to raise the beds
• 2024-01Surveying the beds after raising them
• 2024-01Acid water and rust-coloured soil
• 2024-01Face to face with the acid-forming layer
• 2024-03Building the irrigation system
• 2024-03Tilling to remediate the soil
• 2024-03Straw mulching to hold moisture
• 2024-03Drainage ditch for acid water
• 2024-04Raising seedlings
• 2024-04Planting acid-tolerant and biomass crops
• 2024-05Planting the first vegetables
• 2024-06Vegetables on unstable ground, low yields
• 2024-06Biomass crops thriving as microbes and earthworms return
• 2024-06The vegetables start to take
• 2024-06Vegetables growing green and strong
• 2024-08Reinforcing the low dyke before flood season
• 2024-08Zone 2, the control plot — pineapple
• 2024-09Zone 2 control: low beds, mounded planting, weeds left to grow
• 2024-10Harvesting cassava
• 2024-10Flood season 2024: water covering the lower beds
• 2024-10Acid water corroding the flood pump fast
• 2024-10Pineapple flooded but saved in time
• 2024-10Pumping against the flood
• 2024-11Biomass crops surging back after the flood
• 2024-11The garden recovering after the flood
• 2025-05Soil clearly better in colour, structure and organic matter
• 2025-05Beds settled in, vegetables doing well
• 2025-06Papaya growing green and strong
• 2025-08Every crop thriving, harvest close
• 2025-10The 2025 flood sweeps away a crop days from harvest
• 2025-10A violent flood swallows all of it
• 2026-03After the flood, the land comes back
• 2026-06After the flood — the orchard green again