Permaculture Inspired Ponds & Swales 2
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- This video details rain harvesting using a permaculture inspired pond and swale system. Water is harvested for a small orchard, home use, and raised garden beds for vegetables. This is one year on from initiation of the system detailed in the previous video.
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You should really post more videos on this. I think there is alot for others to learn from your setup.
Great to know this is useful. Thank-you. Will do!
This video is a God send. You have no idea how many questions we have clarified. Thank you for this channel!
Glad it was helpful!
I like how you use stones to hold the earth in place while the water travels downhill.
beautiful spot. love it how you managed to do all of that. Hope I can build my own one day. A recommendation, please get a stabilizer for the camera, I got dizzy with so much movement :) Hope to see more videos from your beautiful space.
Hahaha...Yes this is a possibility.
Textbook, great design, we need more of this 😌👌🙏
More to come but very slow upload times preventing us getting content up atm.
Your a champion mate, straight forward easy explanations on what you have done, camera work was fine, thankyou for making the effort to post.
Beautiful work!! Seriously badass property renovation, bro!!👍👍👍 Keep on keepin on!👍
Congrats, that's amazing. Clearly it's taken alot of work and your vision is being rewarded
Beautiful, neat and tidy set up 👍 Please keep sharing your progress and knowledge, very inspiring. Thanks for this video.
So nice of you
That's a beautiful beautiful piece of land you have there
Great walk through, thanks!
I love your design! It’s so beautiful, yet functional
Love it!!!
And the ponds add to the wildlife too. I love what you have done.
Very impressive mate, you have done a lot of work with a lot of thought.. Remarkable effort.
Incredible!!!
Such a magical property, well done. So inspiring 😁
WHOOAAA!!
😍😍😍
Great job friend 👏👏👏👏🐧 🌵
That is such a beautiful and practical garden. Very well done.
Thanks John, maybe you could photograph it one day!
I love watching the captured water etc.
Ok, so in ur 1st video, u had th comment section turned off. So I couldnt leave u a comment for all that wonderful information u shared. I really like ur efforts & you no doubt are loving your results too. Thanks for sharing.
Are you a landscaper?
Very clean looking design. Its very nice
Thank you for sharing this was very helpful 💛
That’s awesome.
Love the update! Been subscribed since first vid, keep em coming man!
great work
300mm rain…! We only get 600mm a year and we’re in the U.K.! Nice job holding on to it, you’ll have a rainforest before you know it!
Looks great!!!
Awesome dude. Imagen if more ppl did this
To have something like this is my dream
It turned out really nice
Very nicely designed!! Great work . You had mentioned that there was water holding issues with the first pond and you’re still trying . If you could share that info that would be great . However from my perspective it’s tough to hold water on the first pond cos of gravity .
Wauw, very inspiring video!
I just purchase a block in far north qld and I’m at the very beginning to creat a permaculture sanctuary. Thank you keep up the good work
absolutely amazing job
Awesome video! Looks like a cool place you’ve got 🍻
Like the idea of the silt traps.
I like those rock beds (used on the water overflows)! I was wondering what region are you in?
Thank you....
In our hot country we can't depend on ponds because the water overporeted very fast due to hot sunshine. We use swales and plant in it to avoid overporetion.
Not sure of the name but there’s a polymer you can sprinkle in the pond that will seal the leaks. I’ve seen it done a couple of times and it works quite well.
They don't work in my opinion. I tried it twice and used different reputable companies each time. Both slowed the leak but failed to stop it. Plus you end up with a tonne of slimy goo in your pond which I had to clean out and dispose of twice by hand - not a fun experience. Bentonite I've had greater success with, as long as it's mixed heavyly into the first 300mm and compacted. I will use a bentonite impregnated geo-fabric liner under a 3"- 4" ShotCrete skin on that bottom pond, that way if the concrete cracks it will hit the bentonite and self seal. That pond has steep sides so it's hard to get a machine in there to work it easily. It's in a fiddly position too so just needs a bit of design ingenuity to get right.
Putting a swale on a slope greater than 15 degrees creates the risk of failure. The saturated soil can shift.
Terrace or retaining walls are more appropriate
The slope is 15 degrees or less. I agree with you to some degree on the caution needed of retaining water on slopes but only in terms of size and scale. These are very small swales (holding about 4"- 6" of water then safely discharging). For example, a large terrace would potentially be able to soak more water than a small swale on the same slope. Small swales more frequently spaced on steep slopes, and larger swales spaced further apart on flater slopes, could be a general rule here. There is not a one size fits all aproach though, nor should there be in any design in my opinion. I use the Observation/Action principal (see David Holmgren's work) and Small/Slow Solutions as regular design guidelines. Furthermore, north facing slopes in the southern hemisphere in the subtopics is challenging if you don't have established moisture holding in the soil (which you dont on cleared untreed sites with this orientation) as the slope dries out very quickly with sunny days and wind. There needs to be an established succession of moisture holding taking place for those plants specific to that climate to establish (as they are generally moisture loving species). Once the moisture content is stable the swale becomes some what redundant as the tree system has moved moisture holding succession on now that is established. I could go into more technical detail and greater depth on this topic (which I may in another film) but for now look out for my next film coming up shortly that I think will demonstrate the succession taking place here....
Wonderful design!!
Thank you! Cheers!
I really wanted to watch this video- great information. I couldn't watch it with the filming so shaky and the fast panning.
thank you for sharing
GREAT WORK ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Superb design!
What a great tour. I relate to your property. I need guidance on excavating hillsides. What equipment did you use? What tools or gadgets did you use for contour, keyline and spillway designs? Your video gives me a ton of motivation!
I started with a spirit level A frame and a shovel. I dug all the swales and ponds by hand except the 3 large ones. One was dug in 6hrs with a 24tonne excavator and the other with a 5 tonne machine over 3 days, which was the one that we incorporated bentonite into and sealed it properly - its a great pond that one. If you start with small swales and observe and interact when they're functioning, you'll learn a lot! If you do this honestly you will see clearly the limitations of swales also in dry times. In most cases I believe that swales are an early part of the succession process that will ultimately reach its full potential as level terraces. Hope it goes well for you.
Pretty sweet.
Cool stuff
Nice job
Thank you! Cheers!
Beautiful
Can you direct me more info. My home is on a northern facing hill, but I can utilize the methods
Get ducks they seal ponds with the poop. And they are lovely too.
Very didactic thank you..
Please remake this video with a camera with a gyro or something. Such awesome content and so hard to watch with the shaking.
I'm not caught up, did anyone suggest "DUCKS"
Have you put in any trees on the far side of the pond to help prevent the sun from evaporating the pond?
Unfortunately no duks in the ponds.
How do you control mosquitoes? Also, are those trees water tolerant?
So I went looking for anything else that u may have posted for us th viewer, & I found nothing at all. Even thought u suggested that there was yet another video to watch. If u have several videos, why not post them, as a "MIX", so that is viewer may learn something more from ur efforts?? Thanks for allowing me a voice.
Any fish in there ?
Where are you mate? What's the zone? Need to know for comparison. 💕
Zone 2 Sub tropical
Do swales on steep hills cause landslides?
Yes and no. It's like asking do houses built on steep slopes cause landslides? It's all relative to how they have been engineered. There is no one size fits all approach here. But generally not suitable for slopes greater than 15 degrees. Mine are more like small bumps on contour, hand dug with a shovel. They only hold about 200mm of water when full.
if you are having issues with water retention you didn't place trees at the part where it rises back up then goes down the slope you need trees to stabalize the land and drink up the water so it's more efficient and you need them almost if not inside the swale (though not necessary inside just near the edge)
Thank you for your concern - absolutely no problems with water retention in these systems though. Look out for my next film and I think you'll be pleased to see the growth rates moving along quite swiftly thanks to the systems supurb water harvesting capabilities...
I heard in another video duck seal a pond their poo seals the bottom like a water proofer.
Gleying method it's callled. Sounds good in theory...it would take 100yrs - your pond will dry out before then and the ducks would leave. I've seen a highly regarded Permacultre teacher try and recommend this method, 2yrs later they bought in truck loads of clay to seal it. Compacted clay is the only way to naturally seal a pond or dam...
Did you use a pond liner?
No pond liners. Just pure bentonite clay dug in 300mm then compacted.
How much does it rain?
Annual avg. 1600mm per year
At 2:23 you're standing in the spillway?
Yes
Post more videos
Please keep the camera STILL. Give us a chance to take a decent look at it all instead of moving here and there and back again staying in constant motion. You might show it but you can't see much and nothing in detail.
Dude, I like your video, but I feel like I'm watching the Blair Witch Project. I just about threw up from the bouncing view. It's mandatory that I stop watching. Maybe I'm sick, I hope not. Get whatever is required to stop the jogging. There's technology or practice holding it more still?
Sorry mate, low-tech permies here. Will see what we can do...
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