Robert Lee

I was just watching one of Geoff Lawton's videos where he was discussing keyline design and had a sort of epiphany! Those areas that I thought were some kind of terrace left over from tractor I believe are actually keylines etched out from water flowing down perpendicular to the driveway. In that case then yes, I can dam them up at key points this would be great war to significantly reduce the amount of water runoff flowing down from the ditch and hydrate the land. I apologize for the lengthy absence. but thought I would share this with you guys. Thanks again for the advice and i will be going over again some more of those videos for help in setting this up.

Thank you all for the great ideas,

All of these suggestions seem helpful, a little here and a little there

I believe this land used to be part of an old farm and has
just not been worked for quite some time and there are alot
of little terraces as the hill goes up that are left over perhaps
from the tractors they used to use. I could easily divert the ditch into
these and use them as swales.

Eventually I want to use the left side of the hill for goats to run on.

Diakon radishes at key points would be great for soaking up water

In the near future I am going build a house and move out here.
It is beautiful land with alot of potential.

Here are a couple of pictures that I found (as you can see the bridge I had put in got washed out I filled the one side with concrete
and am planning on running some culverts on the other side and cover with concrete once the weather gets a little better)

Thanks again for the ideas

Hey guys and gals

New member here,

Ive been browsing these forums a little while and this seems like a good place for learning and getting advice, so here goes.

About a year ago I had a driveway etched out of a little under 12 acres of very beautiful land out in the country that i am very proud of.

Anyway the driveway goes up a hill about 700 ft before flattening out at the top of a hill and they did me the service of digging a ditch that runs along the

side of it to catch any drainage and it runs down to the creek and gets carried away.

Ok a year later and everything is doing great and grown back up the only problem is where they dug the ditch it seems nothing will establish and the ditch itself is

progressively getting deeper and deeper from the water cutting through it on the way down.

I would really like to figure out a good way to take care of this before it becomes a big problem to deal with..

any ideas??