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Garden picture exchange!

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Major earthworks starting -- central texas

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Creek repair - rock dams

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DIY Dirt Road maintenance and improvement

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How do I keep my soil dry enough to grow hardy kiwis?

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Permaculture My Orchard

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Permie Pond Pictures!

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Sepp Holzer's 3-in-1 Permaculture documentaries (Farming, Terraces, and Aquaculture) streaming video

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Pond Hand dug in one month

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Rainy PNW Underground Root Cellar Ideas

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Sepp's Spring Terrace

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FREE Natural Raised Beds

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Erosion remediation, thoughts?

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Has anyone ever built a living road?

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Land Clearing Options

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types of shoes for shoveling? types of shovels?

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Heavy equipment thread

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Ice Stupa Artificial Glacier Project

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Swale berm planting suggestions

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House, Meet Creek

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Ways to transform a Mudworld into a Paradise?

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Swale overflow

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Trouble understanding how to design drainage ditches on sloping land

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Mechanically Stabilized Earth - for hugelkultur, earthworks, & natural building

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Using old soaker hose for small French drain?

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Directing runoff

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Pond over flow, drainage help

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What is your favorite material for vehicle roads/driveways?

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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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Water management in a wet hill with a high slope

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Swale-berm plant/pigweed management - Ctrl Texas

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Where to place swales

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Stones

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Great Story About Hardpan Soil

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Earthworks: Brag post

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Gravel Road/Driveway - Maine DEP Manual

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Gravel Road/Driveway - Maine DEP Manual

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Mechanically Stabilized Earth - for hugelkultur, earthworks, & natural building

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Erosion remediation, thoughts?

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What is your favorite material for vehicle roads/driveways?

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Swale-berm plant/pigweed management - Ctrl Texas

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Directing runoff

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Garden picture exchange!

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Swales for Drought: Is the Hype Real?

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Sepp Holzer's 3-in-1 Permaculture documentaries (Farming, Terraces, and Aquaculture) streaming video

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neighbor let us borrow the backhoe !

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Ways to transform a Mudworld into a Paradise?

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

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Installing tile drains in fields

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berries

Starting Goji berry farm - need advice

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Making one side of a rain garden stable and firm

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wetlands

Water management in a wet hill with a high slope

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Swale overflow

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Replacing Irrigation with Permaculture by Paul Wheaton

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I plan to build a small concrete weir (2-3ft crest) along a disappearing creek in Haiti.

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House, Meet Creek

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Using old soaker hose for small French drain?

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Where to place swales

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wetlands

Cold climate chinampa

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Trouble understanding how to design drainage ditches on sloping land

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What is the best way to stabilize a muddy area

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Can Underground Houses Meet Code in North Carolina?

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Sepp's Spring Terrace

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These ditches for storm runoff have become mosquito paradises

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Earthworks: Brag post

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

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Complete water retention plan.

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Pond over flow, drainage help

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Stones

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Swale Depth / Width and Berm Height?

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Gabion wall in a pond?

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Wood chip driveway - a success story.

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

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Too much water.....Sometimes, How to build swales

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Topography Maps

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Seeds for Erosion Control Earthworks on Navajoland

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Desert hydrology and earthworks

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

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How do I work with washes on my Desert landscape?

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