These collection of clips are from the desert in the south of Israel. These are usually sudden events (though fairly predictable after rainfall events) in otherwise open and dry river-beds. Vast amounts of water that could have been held, directed and put to some kind of ecological use … but most of it just flows […]
Category Archives: Water
Sepp Holzer Creates a Spring Beneath Terraces
Sepp Holzer’s ingenuity at work. In constructing terraces he comes across a hardpan layer of clay. He lays about 100 of slitted pipes that drain naturally with the contour of the hardpan and those pipes collect into a cistern which is used to create head pressure for a house downhill from it. The terraces are […]
Permaculture Keyline Water Systems: Don Tipping at Seven Seeds Farm
It seems like a damn has been opened … and water knowledge keeps flowing to me. Another great demonstration of keyline design used to replenish a landscape and to insure water security. This one in north-west USA:
Water Walk
Yesterday we went for a walk around the valley in which Bhudeva is located (into which we envision Bhudeva expanding). It was a cool and sunny day. We walked around the first two-thirds of the ridge surrounding the valley but gave up on the final third because cold air was blowing into our faces and […]
Keyline Design At the Beach with Darren Doherty
Water has been a prominent subject on my mind in recent weeks (months already?). With the understanding that fertile soils are the basis for any … ummm … life! well established in my consciousness the door is opened to the subject of how to restore (and maintain) eroded soils (of which we have numerous kinds […]