What Women REALLY Want: A huge pile of free roadside mulch.

#offgrid #offgridportugal #permaculture #swales #homestead #mulch

To help manage #surfacewater on roads, highway #drainage assets can include roadside #gullies, underground pipes and #culverts, pumping stations, #soakaways, ditches, and #SustainableDrainageSystems (#SuDS) such as #swales. 🌧️

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#Supermoon tonight in #SWales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Does #Permaculture Work? How We're Greening The #Desert | MyLittleHomestead

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#WaterCatchment #berms #swales #water

Fascinating anthropogenic modifications of natural #hydrology on an enormous scale in the #Pyrenees The same goes for the use of #swales along motorways. We could learn from our #European neighbours. #water #floodrisk #SuDS @unep.org

https://theconversation.com/englands-water-crisis-needs-more-than-just-new-reservoirs-heres-what-will-help-257922

I think @hancloke is right in this that more should be done to reduce domestic water use & waste, but quite a lot IS being done, with #GreenRoofs & #Swales now widespread in new development, & well still need more infrastructure investment, eventually, I think, a #WaterGrid … t.co/U5nsi1uTPB

🌧️💧 #Swales are shallow channels that temporarily store and allow #surfacewaterrunoff to infiltrate, reducing demand on drainage systems and watercourses. Swales can be ‘wet’ (above ground) or ‘dry’ (below ground). They play a key role in managing surface water flooding by:

How to Use #Swales to Store Water, Grow #Trees, and Stop #Erosion

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You Can Slow The Flow: At Home - Slow The Flow Due to human development, replacing plants and soils with hard surfaces such as roofs, roads, patios and car parking, rainfall runs off much more quickly, causing surface water and combined sewer floo...

Practical tips from UK Charity #SlowTheFlow on what homeowners can do to reduce flooding risks. Includes quick wins like retrofitting water butts into leaky damns as well as larger water management upgrades in the home ( #SUDS #Swales, #Ponds, Permeable landscaping etc)

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"We invite contributions of experience on urban critical zones & especially those including observations, measurements of fluxes, description of biogeochemical, physical & human resilience processes & development of models to respond..." #urbanfarm #permaculture #swales #flood #resilience #tech #sci

10 #Permaculture #Projects For Your Backyard

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Ruth Stout/Key Line Design Garden
#HoneybeeHollow #Gardening #Swales #Permaculture #Mulch

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#Regenerative Farm in the High #Desert Growing Trees and Cows

#WaterCatchment #Berms #Swales #GreeningTheDesert #Ecosystems

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