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I am working on my small pasture that is all on a slope. Some places more so than others but not extremely steep. I plan to planting tree guilds in sort of lines horizontally along slope and then graze animals between the rows. Has anyone had luck with a similar endeavor? I’ve also been building mounds of dead wood/ other carbon matter just down slope from each tree guild to help slow water and hopefully capture more run off.
Any thoughts or suggestions on this plan would be so welcomed! Thanks!
 
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I would build the mounds just up slope rather than down slope of my trees.  See my crude picture for my understanding of the way water reacts to being "slowed".

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Trace Oswald wrote:I would build the mounds just up slope rather than down slope of my trees.  See my crude picture for my understanding of the way water reacts to being "slowed".



Oh okay! Thank you…. I will do that!
 
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