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Crater garden or pond?

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To Mound or Not??

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How do I work with washes on my Desert landscape?

7 replies 2

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Controlling Frost Pockets

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New permie w/swale questions (now with pix and more questions)

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Documenting my waterflows

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How to Make FREE Topograpghic Maps for Permaculture Design

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Installing tile drains in fields

7 replies 1

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Chinampas - Has anyone built one?

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I want to build a little hill

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Swales and retaining walls

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Submerged dams better than swales?

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Need trench/drain ideas

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Bowl Terraces (crater gardens)

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Advice on using swales for drainage and dry roots in waterlogged tropics

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Please help me find resources to understand swales?

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What to do with a steep, sandy hillside

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Holzer terraces problem

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Should We Invent Solar Equipment To Dig Swales?

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swales, permaculture, living fence vid

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Water Harvesting swales and Keylines?

21 replies 1

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Sepp's Humus storage ditches and terraces

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Breaking Ground

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Does anybody really know what Keyline is?

5 replies 1

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Keyline plowing with additions

15 replies

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Swale Depth / Width and Berm Height?

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Hole in a swale

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Residential swale construction, concerns and comments welcome

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Alternative to sketchup for Linux

6 replies

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Filling small swales with woodchips for a path - what could go wrong?

10 replies

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Hugeltrench, gray water, soil improvers

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Swale-berm plant/pigweed management - Ctrl Texas

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Railcar Bridges

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mini water retention pond/wetland under construction

7 replies 2 1

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earthworks in Karst Topography. Swales...

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Bridge/Ford or Culvert?

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When NOT to use a swale

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tools/instructionals for putting swales on hillsides?

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Identifying the Keypoint- and what if it is in the woods?

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Newbie- help with earthworks! Permaculture in 7b GA, red clay, HOA

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Where to place swales

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Excavations/mining and few other questions about desert & water

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Prioritizing remediation following a timber harvest

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How steep is too steep?

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How to transport a contour line on a map onto the land and viceversa?

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Swale dimensions and frequency

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Operation Endless Haul

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My swale Time Lapse

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cheap truck and trailer set-up for dirt hauling

19 replies 2 3

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positive drainage to ditch line?

9 replies 1 3

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Which earthworks are appropriate for our property ?

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Building a driveway in a desert area.

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Hugelkultur , swales and berms

3 replies 1

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Swale End Design Question

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Would you use a fast, low-cost service to get farm contours (from public LIDAR/DEM)?

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Earthworks Using Plants

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Pls look at my field and give advice!

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Swales/Ponds Advice

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Puddle on dirt lane - can I move it all to one side?

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Finding the "keypoint"

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