Newbie here. When trying to explain the benefits of swales on our small farm to my husband, he brought up a 'yabbut'. Everything under this part of Missouri is limestone - broken up limestone, it seems, so in trying to allow the water to sink in and sub-irrigate out in front of the swale, he says it will just fall through the cracks. There is some evidence of this near our big pond which was formed with a berm. It is only green a very short way out from the berm. Love the idea of trying to keep water here, especially with the droughty hot summers we get, but how do we work with this peculiarity? He probably won't want to put the large sum of money needed for equipment rental, etc into this without assurance that we're going to get a good benefit from it. Ideas? Thank you!
