Swales
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It All Started with Geese
5 Tufted Romans, 6 American Buffs and one mixed breed when they were about a week old. It all started…
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Hey! It’s High Cold Dry and Windy and Doing just Great!
Every now and then you come across climate that is not so user-friendly. It’s in the High, Dry and Cold…
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Bulldozer Digging Swales
Bulldozer Digging Swales from Midwest Permaculture. The Design We had been invited by a family in Southern Missouri to assist…
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Swales (Continuous Contour Trenches) Bring Water and Life Back to Maharashtra, India
This (unfortunately low-res) video shares the clear, practical benefits of bringing sensible low-tech Permaculture water harvesting techniques such as swales…
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Experimenting with Overflowing Circles and Slow-Flow Swales (Panama)
The jungle garden I am not Bill Mollison or Geoff Lawton, they will both happily report; rather, I am but…
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Swale Pathways (Tasmania, Australia)
by Good Life Permaculture Diagram of a traditional swale system Hobart is Australia’s second driest capital city (Adelaide’s first) so…
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Making Swales with a Tractor and Loader
by Dale Bunger Just a quick update to show how I have been making swales with a small Kubota and…
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Swales Filled by Melting Ice and Snow (Texas, USA)
We just harvested over 20,000 gallons of ice and snow melt into our swales. Last week we had about 4…
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Desert Food Forest and Organic Commercial Production in Three Years – Update on Wadi Rum Consultancy (Jordan)
Outside the fence On August 6, 2010 Craig Mackintosh posted on my initial consultancy for the site I’m reporting on…
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Making a Terrace Garden
Terraces have been used sustainably for centuries. Why not make a down-scaled version for your garden? One of the first…
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