Permaculture water management

Fasilides Bath, Gondar, Ethiopia. 📸: From Wikimedia Commons. Water and Land Restoration It may seem impossible with the need for ...

A permaculture swale is a technique that captures water in the landscape for passive, easy irrigation and for slowing runoff. Learn what a permaculture swale is and why you might need one in your yard. And don’t forget to grab your "How to Build a Swale to Capture Roof Water Quick Start Guide" at the end of the article.

Gentle and Easy Without water, the soil beneath our feet is vulnerable rock with trapped nutrients. Sometimes a few weeds will volunteer to try to help build soil and stop the soil from eroding awa…

Catch and Store water from your homestead! Check out this fully integrated water harvesting system in progress. Rain from the roof of the house gets pumped to a tank storage system high on the landscape. Then overflow from the tanks feeds a well located earthen pond.

How to Construct a Swale in the Residential Landscape: A permaculture swale is a tool for capturing and storing water in a garden. Learn how to build a swale in the residential landscape. #permaculture #gardenplanning #garden #planning #tools

‘The best place to store water is in the soil.’ When I first heard this saying, early on in my permaculture education, it was like a light bulb coming on. It just seemed so obviously true. After a couple of decades of practicing permaculture I realise that any blanket statement like that is almost certain […]

A permaculture swale is a technique for capturing and storing water in a garden. Learn how to build a swale in the home landscape.

Ingenious ways to harvest rainwater on your garden, without the need for tanks or filtering, using terraces, swales, the slope and more.

Reuse your grey water

Permaculture Design Principles and Practices Nowadays, as the world is inevitably confronted with increasing ecological problems, permaculture, through its principles and methods, becomes the light of faith for those who want to live by nature. Permaculture, the practice of which is based on the integration of biological functions with each other and also providing food and shelter, is considered a parallel approach that could be an alternative to the conventional productive and intensive…

A swale is a long, shallow dug-out trench, running level along the contour of a slope, with an adjacent berm on the downhill side. The “berm” is a soft mound made of loosely piled, non-compacted so…

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10 Best Permaculture Design Ideas. In this article, we are going to discuss the 10 best permaculture Garden designs with you. If you are one of those who don’t know about it then this article will help you a lot. The practical application of permaculture is an important point to know.

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