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flash floods, plenty of rain and swales

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levees or berms

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Flexible depth Swales and TEFA

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Mini krater garden

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What to fill swales with?

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Why don't the Krameterhoff lakes slide down the mountain?

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Spring Box Development Project Upgrade

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Ponds and subterranean heating and cooling

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Swales - How Often and What Is Too Steep?

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Residential swale construction, concerns and comments welcome

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swales close to the house foundation

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Water Collection from Hillside

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Terrace

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Keyline in sandy soils.

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Building raised beds

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Explaining Key line design

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Clearing young trees and eventually building with adobe? No experience, 1500 sq ft "sellable house?"

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Zone 1 Earthworks in place

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Mini swale?

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The Best Tree Planting Helper

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Just sleep on it!

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Creating dam overflow for pond

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Question about swales and earthworks etc.

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Swaling on chalk hillside

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Terracing Flat Land

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Swale vs french drain, in clay soil

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Swales on Flat Land

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Terracing and Hugulkultur

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Where to plant fruit trees on a terrace

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Cheap and green options for improving a dirt driveway?

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Quick question about ponds and plowing

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Retaining wall to level garden

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Earthwork design cost

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Steep Swales and Sprinkler Pipe Inquries

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Keyline PLANTING?

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Earthmoving equipment and Soil harm?

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Sepp Holzer on road boundaires

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Advice : Swale/Pond in Disturbed Soil

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Hugulkultur alignment

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how long to clear land: pigs

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Advice on putting swales into a food forest

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Dozer operating tips?

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Swale Layout

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Can Styrofoam be safely buried for drainage?

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Help: suggestions for figuring out contour lines

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Sealing and compacting clay

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tractor for earthworks

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World's Shortest Irrigation Ditch

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Improving barren soil

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Worst case scenario with Yeoman's plow?

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Swales on slope

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Digging Swales

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Question: Do Earthworks such as Swales Prevent Erosion at the Cost of Increased Leaching?

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keyline agriculture when you don't own the key point

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Contour lines design problem

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7 Acre mini Farm needs help with plan

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when would you NOT crater garden?

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Water catchment in rocky soil

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What do I need to know about brush berms?

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Keyline practical design exercise

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