Hugo Morvan

Like what happened on your land?
I heard the opposite, people had a flow of water on their land and blocked it off, only to find later they wanted it open again and pipe it to where needed. But by then it hardly wanted to flow. It took them a long time to make it close to what it once was. I guess if you block it the underground gets fuilled up with debris and finds another way, through the neighbors land for instance.
I would therefore not let the flow be interrupted by damming it in, but having it fall down into a pond lower down so it makes oxygen and flow as well and does not block the outflow.

Congratulations. The more water you catch and the higher up it is from where you want it down, the bigger the pressure. Half a liter/gallon a minute is a lot i'd say. Because you can put and fill a watering can when you're not there, come and get it. Put an empty one and use the full one, when you're back it could be filled up. much more efficient then rain water catchment.
You won't break something up or down stream doing something like what you are doing. It won't be stagnant, because it's flowing constantly.
If i would have this on my land, i would dig a pond for it to fill, i can just dump a watercan in and have the pressure feed a wateringsystem into a greenhouse below.The overflow i would redam and create different wet spots among wherever it choses to go now. Grow nitrogenfixing trees like alder and use them chop and drop to build soil for perennials or other trees closeby the source. Keeping water on the land is so important! You're going to increase biodiversity multifould, attracting all sorts of amphibians, insects, birds and wildlife creating a system much more resistant to whatever food system you want to put in place. Doing well!

Hi, i have a small bias against tires, but wouldn't it be easier to build a wooden structure and fill it in with haybales to get a permit?

Porridge and herbal tea or coffee.

50 something peachtrees
20 something apples
20 plums
some cherries
many more coming

Hi Steve Thorn.
With the weather getting more eratic those late frosts seem to be a bigger problem every time. I never understood why we as gardeners have to put up with these early flowering varieties. If you're an orchard i understand you want to be the first, because you can charge top dollars. But we as amateurs should have late to extremely late flowering fruit trees. I'd love to eat peach from june to october. Instead of everything at once.
For apples i got some late flowering long keeping variety like court pendu gris(french). And i tried to get apples that are hanging around Christmas and get better after the frost, but i'm not yet super skilled with grafting, and took them too early so they died.... I've got two late cherries, but with peaches i have no info on it.
Any thoughts?

Shower over bath. Sauna for relaxation and then cold shower to cool off. Bath could do too, but takes too much place. In the sauna i throw water with essential oils or just plain hydrolats on it for medicinal value.

The thing is, i planted these in a hedge row, it functioned as a wind break. I didn't think much about it at all. They were just there doing their thing, catching sun, vibing, growing, making mycelia friends. So patience, i don't know. First there were a few apple trees and now - many and more to come.
Like a gift that keeps on giving, like nature is. Generous. I'm not impatiently waiting for it. It's a technique i put into place and it takes me somewhere.
My friend is a grafter and taught me a bit, he is planning on helping me.
Plant it and they will come. More abundant then we can imagine.

This drawing on the photo was the idea.
But the tree grew straight up from the roots. Leaving the bent bit an afterthought.
Hence the messy growth.
Since I've cut the straight trees , so I'll be moving towards some system more similar to the one in Michael Cox his video.
I've got Bittenfelder as a variety adapted to my acid poor soils. They sometimes send out air roots from shoots if weather is wet.

It got out of control, my rootstock apple trees went wild. It was really messy. I've bent down several branches and they rooted here, there and everywhere. I had to come in and rip it out by force. Anyway, 2 hours of work has led to 50 young trees ready to grow another year in my mini nursery or pots. The most decent ones went into pots, to root another season away from the mothertree. The weirder grown ones get a chance to fend for themselves close to a temporary filling water ditch which is partially shaded for a year, then they'll be put into foodhedges.
But look at this gorgeous mess!