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Gloucester family tackles flood risk through proactive approach

Go with the flow sums up Debbie Wilkins鈥� approach to flood management on the family鈥檚 mixed farm near Gloucester, where up to 120-hectares (300-acres) can be under water over the winter

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Dr Debbie Wilkins.
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Dr Debbie Wilkins.

Former scientific researcher Dr Debbie Wilkins takes an experimental management approach when it comes to flooding, and one solution has been to maintain a large acreage of wildflower meadows. Some...

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