How to get started with Permaculture? | RAINWATER MANAGEMENT - Part 1
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- čas přidán 3. 01. 2021
- The first step in designing a permaculture farm is rainwater management. Very often we do not give rainwater too much importance. But a good permaculture design starts with rainwater.
Simple tools available online on www.meteoblue.com will give you an estimate of the rainfall on your property. You can then do earthworks to slow down, soak in and store this water. Swales, channels, ponds and pools, or bunds and dams are all ways of slowing down and storing rainwater.
Rainwater is slightly acidic as compared to borewell water, and is much better for the plants and our bodies. In fact nature has designed rainwater for our drinking & irrigation purpose. Borewell is something we have just invented, but it is not for us.
In this video, the founder of Aanandaa Permaculture Farm, Manisha Lath Gupta, will give you an overview of how to think about rainwater management on your property. With a good water management design, the water needs on your farm will reduce drastically, and the food forest will get irrigated itself throughout the year.
Here are some relevant blogs -
1) Water Management at Aanandaa - www.aanandaa.com/post/2018/09...
2) Flow of Water 2016 - www.aanandaa.com/post/2016/07...
3) Flow of Water 2014 - www.aanandaa.com/post/2014/07...
4) Water Management: Shallow Pools - www.aanandaa.com/post/2016/11...
5) Water Management: The Working Pond - www.aanandaa.com/post/2016/11...
6) Water Management: Digging A Pond - www.aanandaa.com/post/2016/11...
7) Grey Water Management: Using Reed Beds - www.aanandaa.com/post/2011/09...
8) Water Management: Restoring the Weir - www.aanandaa.com/post/2011/08...
9) Water Management: A Gravity Feed - www.aanandaa.com/post/2011/07...
10) Water Management: Building Swales - www.aanandaa.com/post/2016/11...
11) Water Management: Digging a Reservoir - www.aanandaa.com/post/2011/07...
12) Water Management: Building a Channel - www.aanandaa.com/post/2011/06...
13) Water Water Everywhere! - www.aanandaa.com/post/2011/06...
14) Tubewell and a Water Source - www.aanandaa.com/post/2011/04...
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Brilliant astonishing tremendous amount of info shared in a simple manner
I always love watching the way you have managed the water, and watching the water flow through Aanandaa is almost a spiritual experience for me even in the videos. It must be profound watching it in person.
Thanks for sharing your valuable insights.
Regards.
So Finally a infrastructure video for us!! How to find a ideal place to build a pond? Maybe if you explain in your layout plan. As managing water is utmost important in farm.
Wonderful concept of utilising natural rain water
how lovely you are and your farm is! thank you so much for all the advice and information. Lots of blessings to you for the good work you're doing.
Briefing is so much scientific and simple, i will follow you mam. Thank you so much. 🙏
You make and sound farming so easy. Implementation and risk taking is key plus patience for results.
You are truly an inspiration for me and I am sure for many others. Best wishes from Pakistan.
Great topics! I build 6 rain catchment pond this month.
Thank you for sharing. THANK YOU.
Great knowledge base shared. Thanks
Beautifully explained. Interesting. Waiting excitedly for the next episode. After water mgt, where would you recommend to build the house? Which part of the property would be most suited for the house? You have told us about the wind in your older episodes. How about the sunlight? Also you did promise us an episode on humans who interfere. 😊 And if you could explain how you created the pond, it would be very useful.
Thank you madam.Now i get clarity.
So glad I discovered your channel through this video.Thank you for inspiration
You are so welcome!
Got so excited to see this video, I am commenting even before watching the video! Thanks for doing this video🙏
Hope you enjoyed it!
Awesamo ❤️
Very Nice
Madam you have changed my mind about flattening of land to use of land naturally.
So happy to hear that!
Great...😍 I very much liked this educating video 👍👍. More such videos...
Sure 😊
Great, the information I get or learn from your videos is extremely useful, thank you for that madam Manisha.
Glad to hear that
Amazing information your efforts are really appreciated
Thanks a lot
I liked the narration it is simple and to the point great going good i like it
You can check out our course on water management which you may find useful.
aanandaa.teachable.com/p/water-for-every-landscape
So informative..thanks for sharing 💐
Thanks for liking
Fantastic information thanks a million
Glad it was helpful!
Thank u Very Much
Such revolutionary video it is mam...🤝♥️
Glad you liked it
You are a proud women mam
Thanks for your valuable information mam
It's my pleasure
Beautiful work
Thank you! Cheers!
Would you pls make a video on how to make permaculture map that you have shown in this video
Thanks for sharing your learnings. Now others don’t have to reinvent. Question: how do you distribute water or irrigate your plants and trees using the water collected in the ponds especially when you have such a big piece of land?
You can irrigate using a simple pump and pipes
Best video..... But what to do in arid zones🙏
the water which you use for drinking ie portable water does it comes from the municipalities or you filter from your pond by using carbon filter ect... ?
Extremely useful 👍
Glad you think so!
@@farmaanandaa extremely gracious to send a reply, appreciated 😊
Enjoyed this video. Do you also make swales before your first upstream pond or do you collect all the water upstream and then send them to swales below? Great video. Farmers need to realise this benefit and then they don't need to bore hundreds of feet below. So much knowledge in Mother Nature if we are just willing to be alert attentive and involved with her. Rain water harvesting is the future. Thank you for your continuous efforts 🙏🏼🙏🏼
You build swales upstream and pond downstream
@@farmaanandaa Thanks for replying 🙏🏽
Have you installed any water wheel/turbine for using the land slope for electricity? Thank you for sharing the little details like Meteoblue!
No
Information presented at its best! For water need of animals and vegetables, do you use water from well?
Yes we do
Hope that I will also have a permaculture farm one day
All the best for that!
Awesome mam.i learnt alot
Glad to hear that
Glad to hear that
Who is your cameraman ?
Hope one day I will also have farm !
What if the soil is clayey, will it still be able to soak as well?
Wanted to know how did you establish or make your Live wall..can it be done indoors..as on a Living room wall?
Will always always be so grateful for your efforts for sharing these informations/videos with us..
Once again ..I would like to Thank You from the bottom of my heart..
#💝Passion for farming
We've just planted creeping fig at the bottom of the wall. Its climbed up on its own. It need sunlight like all plants so unlikely to grow indoors.
Hi which app are you using to make and edit the photos.pl👍
I have the same situation like your land however I hold only 2acors of land. I am not sure how to handle this situation
i have got drip irrigation system at my farm... its such a headache and complicated
Please share the list of trees which you planted on the channels and Trenches
www.aanandaa.com/post/2011/07/01/tree-selection-for-forest-orchard
The swales/sweds (speed breakers) need maintainence, correct? how often do you have to rebuild them? What are some things that you consider, while doing it?
No, you don't need to rebuild them.
Check out our video on residential rainwater Management.
Hi , i watched almost all videos in this chanel and it is very inspiring. As you mentioned you planted silver oak and casuarina on your boundaries. Can i get the details from where you bought these plants and is there any specific climate conditions required for these trees ?
We got these trees from a local plant nursery. I think these trees can grow in a wide climatic range - from the hills to the seaside areas.
Thanks for the information. My area is flooded during summer. Is it still possible to plan for permaculture farm. If so how I should start?
PLs study the land to understand why is it getting flooded? Is it not percolating into the ground? Or is there surplus after percolation?
What is the site u mentioned to check rainfall in different regions?
Could not find it in description.
meteoblue.com
Great information mam. How can I reach your farm and meet you to get more information about permaculture. I am from Maharashtra
You can come fora Farm Tour some day www.aanandaa.com/farm-tour
Please post gabian structure pic which you mentioned at last
www.aanandaa.com/post/2011/08/15/water-management-restoring-the-weir
@@farmaanandaa This is really great work. How much this would cost you ?
Labour + Material?
I have land that is lower than the neighbouring lands. Should I put more soil on my land so that it will level up with the adjacent land or just leave it like that and just do the water management if water start flowing to my land from my neighbour land?
Just do water management
Mam, how about capturing the rain water from the roof of the house and directing it to underground water tank. Is that a workable approach?
yes it is very much workable
How to decide the depth and width of swale. What is the distance between 2 swales
Pls refer to our course onnwater management for more details on aanandaa.teachable.com
A REQUEST:::::------PLEASE EXPLAIN IN HINDI..
एक प्रार्थना-::::कृपया हिंदी में बतायें
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Thank u. Ours is a flat piece of land in tamilnadu . We having witnessing heavy rainfall for the past 2 days. Wells are full. The water is oozing from the ground. Is it still necessary to store that water by building trench around the plot. Any suggestion would be really helpful
Why is the water oozing from the ground? Dig a pit to see if the water is soaking in, or there is a hard pan which is preventing it from soaking in. In 2 days of rain, nothing should be overflowing.
Thank u for your suggestion
What about natural flat land??
Aap Hindi me videos banaye ,all India Jud pyegaaa. Jydaa public smjh pyegi
As you store water in pond then how to store water in flat land
Pls take our course on Water for every Landscape to understand how to manage water. You will find it on www.aanandaa.com
Hello mam which variety you use for Vegetables
There are so many vegetables and so many varieties. We don't bother too much about varieties
Are swales required in flat land?
If you have rain water leaving your land, you can build a swale or trench on all sides to trap it and allow it to percolate
Mam how to deal with siltation problem in the swales ,pond, and trenches?
Ask yourself the question. Why does siltation happen?
@@farmaanandaa the water flow from our neighbour's land to our land bringing sand and silt which get deposited in our water management system , this disturbs the seepage of water into our ground, when excess of sand get deposited in the channel, the water overflows and erodes our pathway
Namaste madam ji Madam ji aap apni sabhi video Hindi mein jarur banaen
Mam ye video Hindi me bhi banaye please
Do you not recommend any sort of lining or plastering of your ponds ? We get about 92 cm of rain in our area but we are worried about the peak summer months. Specifically if I plant any horticultural crops.
Instead of saving water for irrigation, why don't you plant a forest which does not need to be watered?
That would be called selfish and greedy if ponds are lined.
It would b like, pumping steriods to ur biceps and triceps(storing water in lined ponds for own use and nt giving to nature) instead of whole body healthy nutrition( whole land surrounding the pond benefits frm unlined pond).
हिंदी में समझाइए मेम
Pls provide me permaculture blueprint for 2 acre flate land. 🙏🙏🙏
There are no standard blue prints for permaculture. The first step of design is to observe your surroundings, and each land is different. So no template. Sorry!
How to build a trench.
Either manually, or with an earth mover.
Hindi mein video Kyon Nahin banate hain
Ummeed hai aapne humare saare hindi ke video dekh liye hain.
Mem please speak hindi
Hum apse bahut kuch sikhna chahte pr English language beech me aa jati h