Sarah May

Thanks everyone so much. I'll look into getting a pair for a mother's day gift.

I'll probably get the muckmaster hi boots, they are marketed as mens and womens (not like i really care out on the farm anyways)
http://www.muckbootscanada.com/Product/24

Thanks again everyone.

Have you done any heavy digging in these? Now that spring has finally come to Ontario I will be digging like mad and want to make sure they can hold up to the abuse. I'm eying the Bogs high tops.

Hey everyone,

Now that spring has sprung I'm in need of replacing last years rubber boots. While shoveling, my rubber boots just couldn't take all the movement and hard work and now the back of my rubber boots has slits in them.

Does anyone know of any good rain boots that can take a beating?

Thanks in advance.

That might help as well. We are quite a bit north in central Ontario. Willows grow here in abundance around the creek. We do love willows and wouldn't mind some more around the house. We are limited by our 2 acres so anything we can utilize as food source is always a bonus so we keep coming back to rice patties.

Thanks for the reply. The half acre barely higher that that of the creek bank. We have a high clay content in our soil as well. We were thinking of trenching the two underground streams. The other idea was that on the easterly stream we would dig a small pond at the north end for ducks or pigs. The other idea we had was to just try and grow rice on the land and build a series of rice patties.

The sketch is orientated with north roughly at the top. The house sits on higher ground but there is a walkout on the addition at the southern most end that is barely higher than the field. The slope is very gradual from the back of the house to the creek.

My property slopes southerly to a 4' wide creek and a 30'x10' pond that is fed underground (we believe partially from the creek underground and partially from run off and underground water). We have a good 1/2 acre of clear land just uphill from the creek and pond that is currently unusable due to its saturation. It would be ideal land to use for gardens and livestock if it wasn't for the high water content. Our best solution we could come up with was to dig a couple small shallow ponds for ducks and possibly pigs on the far east end. We were hoping this would drain some of the land that we could use for food crops.

Hello Everyone,

I know very little about hydrology and I was hoping someone could shed some light on this subject. We have a high water table (the whole south end of our two acres is saturated half the year), if a small pond was dug would the water in the area around the pond drain to this area making the land drier?

Thanks for you input in advance.