Fraise Yeux

Thank you, apologies for necroing a thread, but great to see progress photos. It looks like the water has quite a flow during rain events. Brad talks about slowing, spreading and infiltrating runoff. Perhaps rocks at the culvert to slow the inflow, or perhaps a series of one rock dams in combination with the vegetation in the channel to spread and infiltrate the runoff.

One option not mentioned yet is to carefully select and fell a tree or two allowing light to penetrate an area you could then garden. It would also mean there is more forest edge and therefore more niches to fill. The trees could be sickly, or poor form, or damaged, or causing some other disturbance. It would probably yield valuable timber and firewood, and mulch. Depending on species the stump could be repeatedly coppiced or pollarded.

I have found that Brad Lancasters book Rainwater Harvesting vol. 2 to be very helpful to me in designing a system that could deal with my erosion. I highly recommend his insights into healing erosion, he has had much practice on a very large scale.