During a live appearance on Louisiana’s Red River Radio, a listener introduced Martha to a phrase worth savoring: when the moistures meet. In the world of traditional farming, where the moistures meet refers to the moment when soil moisture and atmospheric moisture are both just right for planting or growth. It’s the kind of intuition a farmer develops over years of watching and waiting. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “When The Moistures Meet”
I recently was doing a live call-in show on the Red River Radio Network.
I know you’ve done this as well, Grant.
They serve East Texas and Louisiana and Arkansas and parts of Mississippi.
And one of the questions that came in from a listener was about the expression,
When the moistures meet.
When the moistures meet.
All right, break this down for us.
Okay.
Well, apparently it’s a piece of traditional farming wisdom.
And you don’t really see it in books,
But it refers to the moment when the moisture in the soil and the moisture in the air
Are both just right for planting or for growth.
So it’s this, you know, balancing of the ground moisture and the atmospheric moisture that’s just right.
You just watch and wait for that moment where the moistures meet.
I just thought that was such a poetic expression.
But it also represents that fundamental experience and skill that a farmer has after a while where they just get intuition.
Absolutely.
And they can articulate it maybe, but some of it just is they just act because the land talks to them.
They don’t even really need to think about why they know it’s right.
It just is.
Right, right.
They know when the moistures meet.
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