Working with Water: Incredible Land Transformation
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- čas přidán 29. 11. 2022
- 5 years of water in the ground, these are the results:
Over 5 years, Tabula Rasa Farms (www.tabularasafarms.com/) enlisted Zach Weiss to restore water supplies and ecological function across their land. So far, they’re succeeding far beyond what they imagined. This video shows what is possible when land owners, farmers, and water stewards come together to bring water back to their landscapes.
To learn how to create this kind of land transformation:
www.waterstories.com/corecourse
community.waterstories.com/
Really awesome transformation!
Since the changes in landscape are massive, may i suggest a side-by-side montage of then vs now?! It's hard to get a grasp of what has changed otherwise. 🙏🏻🌱
Incredible. I'd love to implement this in my villages. Love and blessings.
So simple. So effective. So true. As digestible as it gets. Great job.
Zach, you mentioned that the first water body was also used to trap sediments from the neighbour. How do you handle that sediment? Will you have to remove it every now and then? If so, how do you plan to do it? Cheers!
Esses sedimentos podem ser dragados e usados como fertilizantes.
AMAZING AMAZING RESULT!!!
Incredible another inspiration thank you for sharing.
Royal quality . Lakes. trees. fog . snow
That made my day! Thanks.
Great work Zach!
Awesome work!
Awesome video Zach! 🎉 Sooooo cool! 🙏👊👍🙌
Very noble, meaningful and exciting work👍
Amazing!!!
Excellent water-earthworks brother!
WOW !
How do we connect with you for a project in Florida where we need to imitate yours?
How to prevent the water from seeping in to the ground?
You want it to seep in. The point of the catchments is merely to slow the flow of water, reducing its erosive force to preserve the topsoil. Slowing the water also makes it available to local plants for longer after each rain/snowmelt, reducing the need to irrigate.
In Oregon? I need help in Nevada.
What are those vortices we see at 5:40 in the pond? Water being evacuated by the bottom of the pond?
Those are the air columns rising to the surface from the aeration system that is part of the bottom pond. It's not essential, but it is generally helpful to improve the quality of the water.
@@Water_Stories Thanks for answering! Can you point me to the aeration system you are using ? I'd love to implement this too.
@@plumerault There isn't a specific aerator that I recommend over any others, the biggest things are sizing it appropriately for your system and figuring out a good way to hide the noise of the air compressor. In this case the air compressor is in a pump house over the hill and the air comes in via an HDPE pipe then goes to a manifold and then to each of the air stones.
Bit of a nagging, sagging voice-over but great work and interesting information!
Great video!
How do you design such system?
Any book or video you could recommend to learn more about it?
Thanks for sharing this inspiring work.
Just look up anything you can about permaculture designs and food forests. This project is a permaculture landscape.
While you’re looking into it realize that most permaculture operations use cement and plastic pond liners. This is a no no, the water needs to be integral in the landscape, able to travel underground. Otherwise you’re just building a swimming pool that will evaporate with the first hot dry summer.
@@mischevious , I agree with you. There is not much information about how to do it without liners.
@@altermellion6984 I’ve been studying this for several years now, looking forward to reviving my own land. Obtaining the land continues to elude me, prices have gotten absurd but, I see light on the horizon so hopefully not for much longer.
This is probably the most comprehensive presentation I’ve seen yet:
czcams.com/video/Py5GoYn5nJU/video.htmlsi=rLyxDqXBoUSBh4NU
With more on this new channel I’ve found that highlights several people I’m already familiar with that have done the work successfully, Water Stories.
Key points I’ve learned:
Clay is nature’s pond liner that both retains and allows seepage into the landscape.
Those pesky perennial grasses we’ve worked so hard to eliminate are key players in recharging landscapes and aquifers as their long roots provide a conduit to deliver water deep into the soil.
Same applies to reeds and other water border plants.
100% soil cover is necessary, especially now with the hot dry atmosphere desiccating the land; trees, plants, cover crops and mulch where direct sun is unavoidable.
All life begins with healthy soil biology, moisture and organic matter- biomass- nature’s sponge, sun evaporates the moisture and kills the soil biology.
Do you have your land?
@@mischevious , thanks for your command and the video. I'll watch it.
My family has some plots around a village where my grand-parents lived.
It's not a unified piece of land and not as big as what we see in this video, but it's OK.
Like you, I'm trying to revive it.
Cheers from South of France!
As an Indonesian the name of the farm is very interesting
why is the water so blue green? Colour Additives? Looks cool but are they good for nature too?
Probably algae, no one colors their water.
Created water from desalination sea water.. means created life.. especially in desert
Permaculture have disadvantages and advatages. As civil engineer I think on this place life isn't threatened and there isn't so much concrete and other materials. Aqufier sometimes must be used but in right way with all monitoring by owner. Good luck
Why does every pond have a dock?
Introduce beavers they know what to do
why intro music sounds like tenet intro xd
What about the mosquitoes?
What about mosquitoes?
The natural ponds attract natural mosquito predators. We added a small pond in our garden, frogs and dragonflies moved in immediately and no more skeeters.
@@windsonghillranch4306Thanks.
🙋🇭🇲🌅🤗
All it takes is cold hard cash.
Hi there. You are talking about a great subject, but you sounded so sleepy and bored when you first started.Then you seemed to wake up about 1 minute into the video and remembered what you were doing. If you are tired or bored go and have a sleep and then make your video is my recommendation! I can tell you now some people would have clicked off your video in the first few seconds by the way you sounded as digital human become more and more critical. You have to present a reason for people to stay and listen to your video! Some friendly advise.
Circulating water?? ...wasting valuable energy to circulate water?????..... So much for the environment
Assuming they aren’t using solar or windmill for energy source to pump water, plenty of cheap hydroelectric power at night in Oregon.
Don't assume that ALL energy use is wasteful. You don't know what THEIR energy budget allows for or what their power setup is.
Gotta say .... if you're digging with petrol machines, you ain't making the world a better place.
Here's a hand shovel. Be my guest.
Comments like this are so ignorant it hurts... You know what else isnt making the world a better place? That computer you are typing on. Is that computer made of wood? Oh, it's plastic... What do you think that plastic is made of...? oh, petrol. And did that computer magically appear in front of you, made from the earth? Of course not. That computer is made up of 100s of individual little parts. Those parts were made in dozens of SEPARATE factories all over the WORLD... They were then put on airplanes and diesel trucks and sent to a BIG factory to be assembled into that computer you are typing on. And what powers that factory? You guessed it.. Fossil fuel... And then once the computer is finally made... How did it get to you? Oh..it was put on a truck or plane and shipped to you.. a truck or plane that uses petrol...
So before you sit behind your petrol-burning device (computer) to criticize someone for using petrol to make the world better, maybe reconsider..
seriously if you calculate that small amount of gas or equipment used to the amount of life enhanced in there it will pay back many times also you can just hand dig it with enough man power
The environment that thrives after doing this says otherwise
It's literally only necessary to use these machines to get things started. And the land heals as a result. Don't blame these people for renting a back-hoe, blame heavy industry and the airlines.