#swales — Public Fediverse posts

📰 "Village Water Restoration in India Revives 11 Water Bodies and Secures Rural Futures"

🗒"Soon, 11 water bodies across the area were revived in one of the country’s driest places. Dry basins became functioning reservoirs once again.

Groundwater levels began to respond. Wells that once ran dry during peak summer retained water longer."

https://happyeconews.com/village-water-restoration-in-india/

#swales #farming #gardening #community #water #watercatchments #India #Anantapur #AndhraPradesh

The problem: water streams down this trail and rushes against the foundation of the community kitchen, where it slows and deposits silt, endangering the foundation.

Solution: a speed bump berm at just the right spot and then I'll make a channel that sends it to the right, where I'll cut an infiltration pond to give a couple pines the water. It'll have an overflow that crosses the road where the existing channels and ponds will handle it.

But it's not just the trail. Water sheets down the whole hillside there.

Solution: An on-contour swale to slow and sink the water. As the swale approaches the trail, I've added a small grade so if the swale fills, water will go to the new infiltration pond and channel.

#Swales #Permaculture #Landscaping

First step to cutting #Swales is building a landscape contour level.

Pretty easy. connect a couple lengths of wood together to form a /\

Then find and check a level surface. attach a cross piece between to make an A such that the cross piece is perfectly level.

Tape a level to the cross piece. Or if you don't have one, use a string and plumb bob from the top of the A, and draw a line where it crosses the cross piece when level.

Then you just plant one leg and move the other around until it's level. drop flags or stakes at the legs. then lift one leg and 180 it and find the next level spot. drop a flag or stake. Keep doing this and you'll mark a contour line across the landscape pretty quickly.

If you need a drainage swale, put a 1-2" block under one leg when you set level on the cross piece. you have to keep the contour level oriented the same way. but now your flags will mark out a contour with a slight drainage grade.

#Landscaping #Permaculture #OffGridLiving

First step to cutting #Swales is building a landscape contour level.

Pretty easy. connect a couple lengths of wood together to form a /\

Then find and check a level surface. attach a cross piece between to make an A such that the cross piece is perfectly level.

Tape a level to the cross piece. Or if you don't have one, use a string and plumb bob from the top of the A, and draw a line where it crosses the cross piece when level.

Then you just plant one leg and move the other around until it's level. drop flags or stakes at the legs. then lift one leg and 180 it and find the next level spot. drop a flag or stake. Keep doing this and you'll mark a contour line across the landscape pretty quickly.

If you need a drainage swale, put a 1-2" block under one leg when you set level on the cross piece. you have to keep the contour level oriented the same way. but now your flags will mark out a contour with a slight drainage grade.

#Landscaping #Permaculture #OffGridLiving

First step to cutting #Swales is building a landscape contour level.

Pretty easy. connect a couple lengths of wood together to form a /\

Then find and check a level surface. attach a cross piece between to make an A such that the cross piece is perfectly level.

Tape a level to the cross piece. Or if you don't have one, use a string and plumb bob from the top of the A, and draw a line where it crosses the cross piece when level.

Then you just plant one leg and move the other around until it's level. drop flags or stakes at the legs. then lift one leg and 180 it and find the next level spot. drop a flag or stake. Keep doing this and you'll mark a contour line across the landscape pretty quickly.

If you need a drainage swale, put a 1-2" block under one leg when you set level on the cross piece. you have to keep the contour level oriented the same way. but now your flags will mark out a contour with a slight drainage grade.

#Landscaping #Permaculture #OffGridLiving

First step to cutting #Swales is building a landscape contour level.

Pretty easy. connect a couple lengths of wood together to form a /\

Then find and check a level surface. attach a cross piece between to make an A such that the cross piece is perfectly level.

Tape a level to the cross piece. Or if you don't have one, use a string and plumb bob from the top of the A, and draw a line where it crosses the cross piece when level.

Then you just plant one leg and move the other around until it's level. drop flags or stakes at the legs. then lift one leg and 180 it and find the next level spot. drop a flag or stake. Keep doing this and you'll mark a contour line across the landscape pretty quickly.

If you need a drainage swale, put a 1-2" block under one leg when you set level on the cross piece. you have to keep the contour level oriented the same way. but now your flags will mark out a contour with a slight drainage grade.

#Landscaping #Permaculture #OffGridLiving

First step to cutting #Swales is building a landscape contour level.

Pretty easy. connect a couple lengths of wood together to form a /\

Then find and check a level surface. attach a cross piece between to make an A such that the cross piece is perfectly level.

Tape a level to the cross piece. Or if you don't have one, use a string and plumb bob from the top of the A, and draw a line where it crosses the cross piece when level.

Then you just plant one leg and move the other around until it's level. drop flags or stakes at the legs. then lift one leg and 180 it and find the next level spot. drop a flag or stake. Keep doing this and you'll mark a contour line across the landscape pretty quickly.

If you need a drainage swale, put a 1-2" block under one leg when you set level on the cross piece. you have to keep the contour level oriented the same way. but now your flags will mark out a contour with a slight drainage grade.

#Landscaping #Permaculture #OffGridLiving

Le he hecho a un colega que me ayuda con la oliva los diseños para la finca que se acaba de comprar. Esto será un proceso y seguro hará muchos cambios pero creo que está bien. Y sí prefiero hacerlo a mano aunque quede más cutre.

Mapa de vegetación por zonas, viento y Sol, zonas de permacultura y Swales y sumideros.

#Permacultura #Permaculture #Diseño #Design #swales

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#permaculture #regenerativefarming #agriculture #rightlivelihood #homesteading #Landscaping #waterharvesting #greywater #swales #keylineplow #regrarian

A question for gardeners: are the paths in my new garden beds likely to continue their unplanned function as swales if I go ahead with my original intention of putting in stepping stones (i.e. chunks of reclaimed concrete)?
#gardening #rainwater #drainage #swales #permaculture #ClimateAdaptation

#Uruguay

Debido a la sequía reciente todos se ponen a hablar de riego.

Pregunta:
Como van a regar, quiere decir con que y cual resultado tendrá?

Antes de hablar de riego es tiempo de comenzar de hablar de cosechar el agua cuando llueve de manera eficiente y coherente.

Parece que es tiempo de hablar de #swales, zanjas de recolección de agua y de arados de aflojar el subsuelo.

#permacultura

#permaculture #BillMollison #globalGardener #Roosevelt

#swales #water #desert #soil

Some small talk about big issues in the face of #climateChange.

https://youtu.be/kUzqMmnNYaw

#journalism #XR #fff
@AufstandLastGen
@gretathunberg

In my research on #wetlands, I’ve been to some spectacular, internationally important places. Canoed the turquoise waters of the Columbia #floodplain Wetlands, hiked to #peatlands nestled in mountain valleys of the upper Bow River clamboured over dunes to #swales in the Long Point World Biosphere Reserve. My ❤️🔥in these wild places but more and more I’m thinking of #urban wetlands. Why? A short 🧵🪡