I’ll be adding another blog entry after this in a little while. Right now we’re waiting for the concrete company to come and fill our forms for the pond. So exciting!
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I’ll be adding another blog entry after this in a little while. Right now we’re waiting for the concrete company to come and fill our forms for the pond. So exciting!
Cool! Does the water collect different in the mulched areas? Does it stick around longer, or does it just sink right in and disappear?
I am so amazed at how much water was collected in the swales. The only place we lost some water was on the south side of the property that is all pasture. The water would just run off into the street there. But where we did the water works, which is on the north side of the house, every drop was harvested. Last year when we moved in, the water would just rush like a flash flood down the slope of our land and pool right in front of our house. Now the only thing that pools is water on the street, so it doesn’t come up our driveway.
I was wondering if you were using swales. Awesome! I remember years ago reading about an oasis in the desert, in “Gaia’s Garden” which was my first introduction to permaculture. I was so excited about the idea of reclaiming desert into human-friendly land that I almost wanted to move to the desert so I could try! lol. I’ll bet your high desert garden will be an oasis like that before long too. I’m enjoying watch it develop.
Thanks Heather…Geoff Lawton is my inspiration for greening the desert. Here is a video he made about greening a little patch of land in Jordan: