As I took a deep satisfying breath after completing the trench we were digging, I looked across to find some men making a mesh like structure of bamboo along the rain-fed channel to check the soil erosion. They used the leaves and other stuff lying around to fill the gaps. "It will trap the good top soil", said a middle aged women sitting at a distance.
This structure resembled a typical boulder check dam which we make on higher grounds. Instead of boulders, they used locally abundant bamboo, These men got this skill from their forefathers. And their forefathers from their forefathers. The essential knowledge was passed if not the reasons behind it. There are so many things which science is backing up today with rationale. But several already exited in the form of traditional knowledge systems. They perhaps cannot explain the logic behind it, and yet somehow, they just knew.
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