The Anti-Erosion Problem

This post is mostly for my agricultural friends. They have an anti-erosion problem here that we would just envy back in Oregon. They are gaining land. Nice, nutrient rich farmland. Turns out that the weight of the ice in the last ice age that ended 10,000 years ago pushed the land into the ocean. The land is still springing back up at a rate that is now about 6mm/year. But over 62 meters have been exposed up to now (that’s about 200 feet) of prime nutrient rich sea bottom. And it’s still coming. You can actually see the old sea level because all the houses are built along the original coast line since the prime farmland is below. In the area we went through yesterday they claim the worlds sweetest strawberries. The days are long and cool in the summer allowing for greater sugar conversion before they go bad. Too bad for me it was too late in the year to try any. :-(