They laughed when she spent weeks burying 300 clay pots beneath her dry field, calling her crazy and saying she was wasting time on an old-fashioned trick that could never save a farm. Even her neighbors shook their heads as the summer heat grew worse and the rain stopped completely. Then the drought came harder than anyone expected. One by one, the surrounding fields turned brown, crops withered, and wells began to fail — but her land stayed green. When the farmers finally came to see how she had done it, they stopped laughing.
They laughed when she spent weeks burying 300 clay pots beneath her dry field, calling her crazy and saying she…