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building underground: New approach

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Translating observation into practice

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New toy for me too

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Terracing/Raised bed advice needed

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Roads & swales

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Erosion Control

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Cows and Plows

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Spontaneous Mountain Spring

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Land Advice

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Methods for boring and installing a 3" pipe under a raised shared road?

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Fish Scale Terracing - transforming steep slopes to tree sites utilizing goats

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My swale Time Lapse

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Gravel driveway and weeds

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Swales are so cool !!! Pic heavy

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Holistic Management, Keyline Design, and Food Forest/Savanna

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Swales and retaining walls

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Swales to support a dense hedge?

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Swales in a vineyard

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Ditch Plow from Y&J Farm Equipment

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Pond and swale update, 2 more inches of rain

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Where has the water gone?

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Is dynamite an appropriate technology for earthworks?

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Salvaging an old Bucket Loader

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Stillwater issue created by clearcutting

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sunken fruit spiral

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Question on the difference between a berm and a terrace

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Check Out My Swale Project

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Swale rough calculations

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Terrible sloping driveway

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Grader vs Box Blade for swales

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Infiltrate or drain water in small terraces ?

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Help with dam placement.

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Constructing a Butler style Natural Swimming Pool

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Creating swales with dense clay : Good idea? How do I make sure water soaks in...

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How dry and how steep for novice?

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Mitigating deep erosion gullies to improve the water cycle

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swales in heavy clay soil

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Finding contour on uneven land

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Ponds near top of land form

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Slope or Flat? Permaculture Planning Pro and Con

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Construction of terraces

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Swale on very sandy soil, cold, pointless? Harmful?

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Swales in Wet Climate?

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Planting to stabilize a new sloping dirt lane

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Keyline Swale Article- The best of both worlds?

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Swales in ancient fields

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Increasing rainfall infiltration from around 20% to almost 100% in a few years- looking for feedback

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Zoning code question for earthworks (Yavapai County, AZ)

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Need advice on a swale screw up

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Harvesting rainwater with dams on drylands

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trails i have been building in my woods

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Very unlevel Pasture

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Emergency swale in saturated ground

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Very basics about keylines

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google earth elevation accurate?

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Would swales be a good idea?

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Dealing with high water table and brittle soil layer.

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iPhone app for making swales

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How to decide between a keypoint dam and a contour dam?

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Volume issue with swale system

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