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Showing posts with label swales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label swales. Show all posts
May 15, 2023

Garden Swale: How It's Doing

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Photo from Feb. 2022. Swale after a three inch rain. Making of  pictures here . ...
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May 4, 2022

Swale Project: More Experiments

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Digging swales is our big infrastructure project for 2022. Proposed plan f...
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April 9, 2022

Spring Planting & Growing: Early Edition

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"All spring, I try to plant something every day " Carla Emery, Encyclopedia of Country Living I love that quote by Ca...
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April 5, 2022

Pasture Swale Prep: Moving That Pile of Dirt

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The biggest project on our spring project list is getting a start on our pasture swales. Our garden swale is functioning beautifully, so t...
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March 24, 2022

Interesting Things I've Learned With a Shovel

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Once upon a time, I thought of shovels as simply tools for moving things like dirt, compost, or mulch. While it's true that they ar...
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5 Acres & A Dream. The dream has always been to live close to the land. The five acres came in 2009, when my husband Dan and I bought a neglected 1920s-built bungalow on a piece of old farmland. The goal is simpler, sustainable, more self-reliant living, and a return to agrarian values.
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