In one preferred form of the present invention, there is provided a method (10) of cultivating a tract of land (12). The method comprises: proactively shaping earth into interrows (16) by proactively compressing the earth using a downwardly directed compression force to push the earth into a predefined shape and providing depressions therebetween for crops. The compression and the predefined shape (18) of the interrows (16) is able to provide desirable rain water run-off, of subsequent rainfall, (or other applied water) from each interrow (16) into a corresponding depression (20).
