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In 1847, during the Great Flood of the Trent & Mersey Canal, Josephine waded waist-deep through the churned silt of Lock 23—not to bail or board up, but to rescue her experimental patch of watercress and comfrey from the rising tide. She replanted both the same afternoon, staking them with willow withies she’d soaked overnight, and began recording how submerged roots responded to fluctuating pH and silt load—notes later cited by Victorian hydro-botanists studying phytoremediation. Her lock cottage roof hosted not just moss but a rotating guild of nasturtiums, pennyroyal, and marsh marigolds, chosen not for prettiness but for their ability to repel snails that chewed through her wooden sluice gates. She never kept a ledger of tolls; instead, she logged bloom dates, water clarity shifts, and which frogs returned each spring—her real accounting was ecological, not fiscal.
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