Food Forest Terracing & Passive Water Harvesting Earthworks
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Published 2022-01-30
The design included the formation of four terraces, a tractor access road, two swales, and a series of six media luna flow concentrators and flow spreaders to transit water down the steepest slopes in a non-erosive fashion. This design lays the groundwork for future food forest plantings going in during mid-winter of 2022.
Passive Water Harvesting Landscapes - Design & Implementation
U.S. West Coast - Wes Cooke - www.7thgenerationdesign.com/
U.S. Southeast - Casey Pfeifer - thesovereignhomestead.com/
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All Comments (21)
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This is awesome. Way to lead by example guys. We need projects like this X 1,000 and then we will really start making an impact on the land.
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So cool, everyone that lives on hills like that needs this just to recharge the aquifers.
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What will your legacy be? Ooof that hit home. Need to do more in my life
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THANK YOU!!! 😆🤯 This gave me the perfect guidance. I'm on it
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First BLUE (water) correct, then GREEN (plants, photosynthesis) and then BLACK (binding carbon in the ground, healthy soillife). You’re working in the right way 👌
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Learned a lot. This will come in handy in South Africa. Cheers.
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Very nice! Thanks for showing.
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Thanks for sharing! Really appreciate seeing the plan, the work and the results
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Thanks for sharing your work and wisdom.
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This is awesome work ! Well done.
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Again wow, so good to see your journey, and I love your dog. Such a beautiful and well planned property. 😁
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Please post updates, great work!
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Wow what an impressive project. Keen for an update one day
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How did the recent storms impact this property? Would you change or update any design considerations?
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If every terrace points down toward the drainage ditch, doesn't the far side become much drier? It seems that if the first and third terraces point away from the ditch (and have the appropriate spillways), they could all be more even in saturation
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how far apart is each swale from the next one?
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What’s ML mean? I currently have water streams flowing down our drive away when it rains and it goes into our back field and even going up the and under the house. If water flows straight down the hill should we still make small left to right swales like these? Or could we follow the trails of water and steer them down hill where we want and still benefit from planting near them? Sorry I’m totally new to this and there’s a lot to understand!
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Update video?
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Did you have any rain events which filled swales on your properties already?
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I like the design but I don't completely understand it. Sad because my land is very hilly and already has some terraces. I wish I understood better how you planned out the sections that feed the terraces. we get an average of 58 inches of rain. I found it funny that you use a Spanish nomenclature instead of saying "half moons", just makes me giggle. Loved the video all in all.
