That's Life -- brought to you by California's Water and Soil!
Soils and water and other things are fodder for this episode. Lois is talking to guest Don Shor (of Davis Garden Show fame!) -- about so many things that we won't try to list them all here.
Understanding our water -- where it comes from , where it goes, how it's used, and by whom -- is vital to knowing what to expect in the future. Understanding how our soils were formed and how the various soil typesinteract with that water is the basis for many of our gardening and farming decisions.
Why who got what soils. Davis is in the Sacramento River watershed. It was either marsh or grasslands before Europeans arrived. Because we had annual flooding, our rivers and creeks developed natural levees which overtopped each year and deposited gravel, sand, silt, and clay on the surrounding land -- the lighter particles travelling further than the heavier material. So your yard might be sandy-loam, silty-loam, or clay-loam -- depending on where in the county you live.
"That's Life" broadcasts every Tuesday at 12 noon and replays every Wednesday at 5:00 pm, PacificTime.
(Recorded and broadcast in 14 Oct 2021, re-broadcast 27 May 2025.)
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