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Garden picture exchange!

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Major earthworks starting -- central texas

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Creek repair - brush dams

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Creek repair - rock dams

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DIY Dirt Road maintenance and improvement

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Permaculture My Orchard

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Permie Pond Pictures!

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Pond Hand dug in one month

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FREE Natural Raised Beds

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Rainy PNW Underground Root Cellar Ideas

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Sepp's Spring Terrace

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Land Clearing Options

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types of shoes for shoveling? types of shovels?

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Ice Stupa Artificial Glacier Project

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Heavy equipment thread

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Cedar plank drain for land reclamation

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Swale berm planting suggestions

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water for the future: capturing seasonal rainfall for future generations

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Too much water.....Sometimes, How to build swales

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Earthworks and flood irrigation?

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Swales, bunds, puddles, terraces, meanders, checkdams, waffles, earthworks

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road surface options, long driveway, remote location

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Water Harvesting Experiment

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Starting Goji berry farm - need advice

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Keyline- A question from a novice

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Crater garden or pond?

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What to do with a steep, sandy hillside

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Wood chip driveway - a success story.

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geocells (and why your next driveway, parking space, or entry road may want them)

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swales

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How big an earth auger bit can you use on a 43cc auger head?

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Can Underground Houses Meet Code in North Carolina?

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How Best to Remediate Soil from Pesticides and Herbicides?

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Turning a Floodwater Liability into Biologically Filtered Groundwater Assets

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Mud woes

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ditches/swales/furrows

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Swales in Humid Tropical Mountains. Yes or no?

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How do I work with washes on my Desert landscape?

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Methods for boring and installing a 3" pipe under a raised shared road?

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Where has the water gone?

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assistance with making swale calculations

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Searching for photos of established Swales

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plants

Need help on planting my swale berm

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Where to start with swale digging?

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Building a pond in porous limestone mountain terrain

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Land with no flat spots

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terracing

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California Earthworks for Farm Resilience- workshop with Warren Brush

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Landscape Design

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Silt Traps: TreeYo EDU Article release

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greening the desert

Ice Stupa Artificial Glacier Project

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Just dug a lake to store water and hit a spring - is this good or bad?

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Types of swales

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Terrace

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The Backwards Grant

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Sepp's Humus storage ditches and terraces

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cascadia

Optical Surveying for Earthworks and Water, Advanced Permaculture Course

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swales in animal paddocks/ rotational grazing etc?

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Building, maintaining, and improving roads

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Bridge/Ford or Culvert?

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Should I dig a swale for my mature plum tree?

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Earthworks and flood irrigation?

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forest garden

Starting a 5 acre forest garden - need advice on earthworks

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Digging earthworks, but worried about damaging old oak's roots

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Ditch digging advice

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I'm looking for lot planning suggestions

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Advice on removing packed down dirt driveway

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Earthworks Failure

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Swale OFF Contour

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Advise building terraces with reclaimed earth from house site

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Vegetable gardening on a slope - Swales or terrace?

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Swales and Orchard

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Keyline Question- Water Management vs Solar efficiency

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The Rains Brought Judgement

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Waynes water projects

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Images of Keyline, Keypoint, Berms, & Terraces: share for teaching & education

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Edible landscaping on levees

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Berming a Quonset for earthship use

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Ditch Plow from Y&J Farm Equipment

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Dam building, good clay, but too soggy

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Backyard Swales in the Hudson Valley?

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Check Out My Swale Project

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Controlling Frost Pockets

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Ridgecrest Farm - The Beginning

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straw vs hay to cover swales??

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