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Permies Poll: Do you own heavy equipment for your homestead?

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Digging a Ramp for a Tractor

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Help.... working on slopes over 50% gradient.!!!

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Optimal way to form windrows on former Willow Bog

3 replies 1

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Mountainous Farm and Earthworks

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Pond or swales to help with erosion?

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Excavator vs dozer.?.?.?

20 replies 1 6

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Swale question

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Help me understand swales

14 replies 3 1

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Nat Geo Launched a Free Website for Printing Detailed Topographical Maps

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Badly built ''terraces'' - how do I stabilize them?

14 replies 1 7 4

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Build soil to eliminate standing water?

14 replies 1 1

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Newly installed swales put to the test by monsoon rain fails

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4 acres keyline designed food forest/savanna in Ontario

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Ridgecrest Farm - The Beginning

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Terracing on a steep slope in Appalachia

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Sepp Holzer spring development

17 replies 1

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Idea - making a steep sided berm from sod

7 replies 7 1

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Pond over flow, drainage help

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Large scale Swale Examples in Arizona or W.NM?

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Wood chip driveway - a success story.

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What to do with the "Toilet Bowl" ravine?

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Swales and Orchard

8 replies 2

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Pile o' rocks

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renting an excavator for swales... what am I shopping for?

20 replies 1 1

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Disc or Chisel plough a field with 10 years of no cultivation?

23 replies 1 14 3

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Building a small dam with quikrete

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Can anyone let me know if I did this keyline design properly?

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how to fill in a mile long trench

17 replies 1 3

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Just dig it rainfall moisture retention

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What to do with lots of Rocks and Boulders

13 replies 1 2

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Suburban backyard swale

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Earthworks in high desert around existing trees?

18 replies 1 4

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Making one side of a rain garden stable and firm

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Please help me decide on earthworks plan. Less irrigation, more food. Tough climate. Ideas?

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Grading for road access plus water harvesting

12 replies 3 1

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Resources for Dam building info

10 replies 1

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geocells (and why your next driveway, parking space, or entry road may want them)

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Terrace or Swale?

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"Problem is the solution" - Ways to apply this to ruts formed in steep hillside road?

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French drain without plastic?

5 replies 1

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Example of a pond without a liner

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setting up a natural stage or amphitheater

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Surveying tools equipment

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save our terracing....please!

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Images of Keyline, Keypoint, Berms, & Terraces: share for teaching & education

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Ideas for preventing ditch collapse/erosion?

11 replies 2 1

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Water retention project begun

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diverting water off shared private road-cheap? Easy? Not annoy neighbors?

9 replies 2 2

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Confirmed spring / One rock dams

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Replacing Irrigation with Permaculture by Paul Wheaton

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Ideal suntrap curve

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The puddle in my driveway

5 replies 1 3 1

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swales, orchad and vegetable garden

7 replies 5 3

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Dams in a Valley

15 replies 6 4

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Crater garden or pond?

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How do I work with washes on my Desert landscape?

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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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