Permaculture Water Management - Re-Charging a Landscape!

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A few additional notes here... We happen to be in an overall quite fertile, temperate high water area of the world. The ideas shared in this video, I would really hope, could be taken and worked with in a context like ours as well as dry climates. When a heavy rain finally comes into a dry landscape, these techniques and approaches of helping water find more sinuous and meandering paths, following along a line of contour and soaking in as deeply as possible, are critical for slowing, soaking and spreading those precious and infrequent rains to sustain the deeper soil through drought.
I hope whatever context you are living in and whatever climactic challenges you are experiencing that these simple and highly accessible ways of working with water are useful to you. Please share in the comments your questions, your additional thoughts and your experiences so we can all learn!
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@Geografija5do12 10 месяцев назад

People should watch this, regardeless of permaculture, just to learn the true meaning of observation. Good job.🖖

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

Thank you

@Space_Trucker 10 месяцев назад

I love watching these types of videos on your channel - water flow, ponds, swales etc. are my favorite subject that you cover. I am a renter who has zero ability to do anything with my landscape so I am getting to live vicariously through you. :)

@lewisreed8415 10 месяцев назад

exactly the same here. I yearn for a pond of my own

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

For now, we are really happy to share what we've got going on, and know we are wishing for you space to explore and tend and steward in beautiful ways if it's in the cards.

@growmotion1207 9 месяцев назад

So incredible watching how you tend the land. If the earth were managed with this level of mindfulness, and thoughtful design, we would have a paradise planet.

@edibleacres 9 месяцев назад

Really kind words here, thank you

@mendynoma4272 10 месяцев назад

I found a way to create temporary water bars by using gravel filled old crew socks as mini sand bags and vehicles can drive right over them and they last about a long season , very helpful when the option to dig the area affected by runoff isn’t there. I hope someone can use this method , it has worked for me for years.

@robertlarsonwoodford 10 месяцев назад

genius!

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

Very cool idea, thank you for sharing!

@B30pt87 10 месяцев назад

Excellent idea. Thank you.

@nickmarzullo7504 10 месяцев назад

Sean, I do this professionally (on a much larger scale and typically for more commercial applications) and you have a far better grasp on the concepts of liquid flow than most. I'm extremely impressed both with your depth of knowledge and how you're, possibly even unknowingly, recreating some of the best practices. Your last "ditch" to slow the water before the pond is what we call a level spreader, and we use them all the time to disperse energized water back into protected wetlands without causing erosion.

@insanesoninlaw 10 месяцев назад

Coming from a land surveyors perspective I enjoy this type of content greatly. It is true we don't need the fancy equipment that I use day to day. Just need a good rain day. And willingess to be out in the rain lol. I had one here today on the north shore of Lake Superior in Thunder Bay. Always enjoy the content

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

Thanks kindly! Certainly the tools are amazing and quite critical if you are going to use machines. You definitely don't want to rent an excavator and have it sitting out until a rain comes! Ha! But showing how to do these things with hand tools gets it into more peoples realms :)

@LittleJordanFarm 10 месяцев назад

Awesome..we needed this just this past week ourselves. Blessings

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

Happy water harvesting!

@B30pt87 10 месяцев назад

I can't express how much this video means to me. Your gentle approach (and gentle voice) was exactly what I needed right now. I live in northern California it rained last night for the first time this season. My property has a small (for now) pond near the top, then a road, then a pretty steep forested slope downward to the lower road and main part of my land. I've been thinking for months about how to design swales to hold and distribute the rain water and watching this video opened my mind to a much softer way to do it. (I need to plant more groundcovers and make many more small-to-tiny swales). Seriously, thank you very much! P.S. The evolution of your water system has been beautiful.

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

So very very glad that this video has landed as helpful. To me, the best news here is that the idea of being able to do water moving work with hand tools based on real-time information from water moving in a landscape is that you may find it address the fullness of your needs, but if it doesn't, you have a mental tool kit to leverage the power of machines in a MUCH more thoughtful and accurate way later. Wishing you water abundance!

@ZoggyWoggyII Месяц назад

I have an unrelenting desire to see permaculture water systems for some reason and this was highly impressive and inspiring.

@TheEmbrio 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for this. The driveway is my last runoff project. 50% of it is sloped back into the yard but makes a giant puddle that doesn’t serve anything, half does still go to the street where it’s probably detrimental to the infrastructure (oh i’m not by any means the worst ... my place is 95% vegetated and or roof runoff is used many ways...

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

Hoping for wonderful runnoff capture :)

@ned1177 10 месяцев назад

Nice cattails!!!

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

They have been super happy here

@tarawatterson4188 10 месяцев назад

Very inspiring!

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

So glad!

@futurecaredesign 4 месяца назад

At the end there you talk about being able to do this work during or shortly after a rain storm. But there is a much more pleasant way: You run a pump or even just a garden hose and chase the water during the summer! The conditions are much more likely in need of a good watering event anyway and it makes for really enjoyable work!

@edibleacres 4 месяца назад

Great point, thank you!

@my_permaculture 10 месяцев назад

So poetic. Wonderful!

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

@wadeschwartz6281 10 месяцев назад

Awesome thoughtful water education,,your neighbor is sooo fortunate that he chose to join you in the beautiful journey of making a very ordinary property extraordinary . Applaud you both for an example of healing community in world of hostility.

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for the very kind and affirming words. It's been a great deepening of connection to be sure

@phyllisclark3896 10 месяцев назад

Thank you. Very interesting video 🙏🙏🙏

@CK-solutions 10 месяцев назад

I love the concepts you teach. They are necessary for hydrating a landscape and reducing erosion. I've had similar experience hydrating my landscape for over 15 years with the same concepts. However, one thing has always struck me with seeing how yours have developed over the years. As I originally started with deep, narrow channels like yours to direct the water shed. Only I found it be a tripping hazard, and an impediment for anything with wheels. So maintaining vegetation became a hassle. Solution: instead of deep and narrow - dig wide and shallow. It has the potential for the same water capture, only you've made it easier to traverse and maintain. Depending how much space you have, you can go very wide and avoid any overflow altogether. Like how you justified digging the second channel near the pond to deal with the overflow from the road. In my particular climate in Australia, our summer rains are always intense. So big downpours mean overwhelming small concept swales. The rain pattern dictated the necessity to scale up the size of my swales, but it also made it possible to run a mower over it, push wheelbarrows across it, and pull chicken tractors through it, etc. I view my swales, not only as water capture opportunities, but also my access paths. I want the least amount of resistance for the water, as well as all other traffic that will cross it. This is just something I have observed in my climate. If yours is changing, it might become a necessary adjustment too.

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

Beautiful notes here and well conveyed. Thank you for sharing and yes, makes perfect sense. The channels demonstrated are pretty rough sketches at this point and have a ways to go to get to a place of better integration and quality. Iterative steps!

@juliasgarden6968 10 месяцев назад

I love it whenever you say minari. I'd like to grow it in water some day too. For now I have some in a pot and water it every day. It's nice to see your swales and pond in practice. I hope to do something similar but I rarely see any water running on the ground on my property even when it rains for weeks. I guess being on such a rocky and sandy mountain is the reason. But I'll keep my eyes open this winter to find and water passages.

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

You may just have such good drainage that this sort of application doesn't apply...

@dianecharles881 10 месяцев назад

Well done , I’m going to share this with a homestead that has a pond that could use this very important information. You have a wonderful way of explaining everything!

@bsod5608 10 месяцев назад

The pond is so nice. And useful in many ways. Impressed by your low impact, low cost approach to everything. Always simple solutions. I have been thinking of adding a rainwater collector to my propery instead of using groundwater, inspired by your setup. I am also considering adding a grey water system to the house. Thank you for tour content!

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

You can definitely make it happen! Wishing you abundance and great luck!

@sixeses 10 месяцев назад

You're so good you're so good Sean D you're so good.

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

Aw shucks!

@vintagemotorcyclerepair4052 4 месяца назад

This is a fantastic video! You have amazing skills, and the ability to explain so simply your water management processes. So great!

@edibleacres 4 месяца назад

I'm so thrilled that it feels like you're getting a lot of value from our old catalog of videos. It's great to have you with us!

@skyboydan 10 месяцев назад

Jeez guy, I really love your detailed observations and way of explaining them for us. You must be really proud of that pond. Over time it has become totally exquisite with life, and all thanks to your vision and design. I have just started on the journey of designing and building our family a natural pool, but the costs are daunting and the learning curve is steep. Seeing how beautiful this swimming pond is, among its other uses, has shown me that this could be a much easier, and more enriching approach to getting into fresh water every day.

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

Maybe making one or two very small ponds first, perhaps with hand tools, could be an entry way into learning more and coming up with a nice plan for your natural pool. We only dug this after I had made a bunch of variously good/bad/inbetween quality hand dug ponds, and I'm glad I slowly eased up to this!

@laurenpaolini7073 10 месяцев назад

You're so thoughtful with your water management. It's inspiring! Thank you!

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

You are so welcome!

@CookBrookCountryLife 10 месяцев назад

Nice job! I love the water plants in your pond.

@nrocobc581 10 месяцев назад

I enjoy viewing your property. You have a gift or talent for sculpting the land. Making use of the resources available rather than plowing everything down and planting a mono crop. Please keep making these videos they are informative and relaxing to watch.

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

So glad they resonate and thanks for the kind words

@auniciasharpe7293 10 месяцев назад

Thank you sooooo much for this video!!! Your explanation with actual examples is so easy to understand!

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

You're very welcome!

@yLeprechaun 10 месяцев назад

I remember when y'all dug that pond. It sure has grown in beautifully. When I was 18 I moved from Ohio to Wyoming. That's where I learned about water bars. A really underappretiated simple technology.

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

The pond ecosystem really has developed in wonderful ways. Yes, water bars, wow, what simple but profoundly impactful tools to implement.

@leonsaquaponicsandhomegard6793 3 месяца назад

Wow good stuff 😊😊😊

@huckp7773 10 месяцев назад

All ur videos are awsome but I love the water ones

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

A bunch of folks fee that way it seems. Great to know

@BalticHomesteaders 10 месяцев назад

A good reminder that I need to go and dig some of these water bars on our drive as we live on a similar slope. Granted we have no way to store it at the moment it would be better than running through our property and causing problems further down the line. We really need some micro ponds about the place to pump from but our soil is so sandy it would need a source of clay or lining somehow. Thanks.

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

You certainly don't need a formalized pond to have huge huge value in sending water across a landscape. Slowing it down, spreading it across contour and letting it percolate into the groundwater, if that is 'all' you do, is immensely beneficial for the long term health of the land! Ponds can come later :)

@gettingnexttonature 6 месяцев назад

Hi Sean, I love your videos! First finding your channel while researching chicken compost systems. Now I love your pond videos too. I appreciate all of the permaculture strategies, using ponds for a water source, planting beneficial/edible plants within/around the ponds, but what about the wildlife? I know that the emergence of a pond within a landscape will attract birds and other earthlings. Do you add life, aside from plants, to your ponds? I'd love to see a video about how animal life has benefitted from your ponds! Maybe some waterfowl have built a nest or a sneaky turtle has snuck in. Just a thought! Keep on making videos, they're great! And congrats to you and Sasha on your little one!

@edibleacres 6 месяцев назад

We don't add any creatures into the mix. Maybe we're missing something here but it just hasn't been what we do. Feels like they just show up when it's time, but I suspect better facilitation could be helpful.

@Gabi-lt4mx 10 месяцев назад

Only ten percent of the viewers right now press the 👍 button. Why? It will help this channel.

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

Hey thanks for that much appreciated :)

@devonolsen1331 10 месяцев назад

"I see no cloudiness " *reflections of clouds abound** 😂😂

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

You know what I mean :)

@devonolsen1331 10 месяцев назад

@@edibleacres haha yes I know... but it was just too irresistible to run with lol

@RobbieRad 10 месяцев назад

Another great one! Really enjoy you water collection videos so many inspiring ideas. I am curious…. I know you and Sasha are close to having you little one but are you still offering consulting services? I would love to get your opinion on our location and some of our site’s challenges. Been here 8 years and a new challenge that emerged this year has us wondering if we should just pack up the kids and start a new homestead on more land somewhere

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

I'm open to being helpful, you can email me at sean @ edibleacres.org and we can think through a good time to connect!

@trumpetingangel 10 месяцев назад

Do you and your neighbor have to re-dig the depressions in the driveway after winter plowing?

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

Almost certainly we will... Or at least observe and adjust. Probably not a fundamental re-do but a refinement

@on4acres 10 месяцев назад

Looks great! This pond was completely built by yourself?

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

Our neighbor and I rented a 15ton excavator and did it ourselves

@helio2k 9 месяцев назад

The most low effort tomato trellis. Just a stick long enough into the ground, a string tied to one end. Curl string around tomato vine.

@edibleacres 9 месяцев назад

Sounds very simple!

@thecurrentmoment 10 месяцев назад

How many wheelbarrows of rain do you usually get in one year?

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

Ha! It's funny because I have maybe 4 rain gauges but I always forget to set them up, but I never forget to leave wheelbarrows out in the rain :) This season we may have a full barrow already, it's been a rainy one! In this video it shows two heavy rains worth in the barrow, I would venture a guess 1.5" of actual rain. Would be good to know the real translation so we can really use them as rain gauges!

@JColeJ97 3 месяца назад

Is this Eric Dubay?

@kissthechickensfarms 10 месяцев назад

Any good plants I can pair with chickens?

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

Our chicken playlist has lots of ideas

@thatguychris5654 10 месяцев назад

I can only imagine how many snakes you have in that habitat 😂

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

There are some. I see a few here or there. But it isn't a ton. What we don't have any more are any mice or voles!

@EhEhEhEINSTEIN 10 месяцев назад

If you ever end up on the mid coast of Maine and want to hang out for an afternoon, drink a beer and get paid for a consultation...

@edibleacres 10 месяцев назад

So kind, that sounds pretty fun! I don't travel much at all, BUT you can reach out some time via email and maybe we can connect through a video chat and drink a beer together and help you out with your project...