In about a month time we will move to our new house on 3 hectares of beautiful and very inspiring lands.
Living on a small island in the Caribbean, Curacao with a hard arid tropical climate.
If we lucky we get around 500mm of rain mostly from October till March and being the lowest spot and in the stream of a steep hill and 26 hectare of nature our math came around triple the amount of water that falls.
On paper we have everything ready but now the starting date is getting closer I am looking for feedback, things I forget, mistakes or ideas that I dont know of.
We want to become a spot where knowledge is shared, I love to experiment with plant and hopefully show that we can do way more then have bare dry lands, lots of cactus, dying fruittrees and watertrouble.
Main goal is to feed my family and hopefully share all we learn during this journey.
My background is agriculture, used to own a horse stable and tiny homestead (training, breeding) but been trained in the modern agriculture technique and did a lot of self studie the last 10 years in natural farming.
Own veggy garden, turtleponics etc etc.
But now we are going professional into farming while my husband keeps running the contractors business.
It probably will become as chaotic as I am, everything needs to become a circle, the gardens feed the animals, us and hopefully my neighbors and some extra for the market, the animal eat from the gardens, give manure back, will feed us (meat, eggs), will make a duckponics out of my hopefully full dams and ponds etc etc.
On paper I have a swales every 1 meter height differents, probably will work out that the swales that are close to getter will become a plato or pond, not sure yet, think the moment we are really at this point we solution will be there.
With this design we should be able to hold around 9 million liters of water at one time, for a normal steady rain season we would be ok, a tropical storm of even more and we will be getting way more water and the dam at the bottom on the ground on my neighbors land will hold it there.
My feelings say I am on the right track. but not alot of knowledge of systems like this on Curacao, its hard to get a critical look at my plans, everybody is following me, asking for open days to see if and how it all works.
So please dont hold back, shot on my layouts, ask question, make my live hard, so I can come up with even better plans.
TO give you a Idea what kind of climate and grounds I am talking about.
a 360 move at the middle of the grounds on a high spot.
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