Sovereign Water – Spring Development Basics ~Epi-074
Today’s show is for those of you lucky enough to have a spring on your property. We will cover the basics of spring morphology and function – including the way I really think they work vs. what the textbooks say – and then we’ll go over basic spring assessment criteria, and the main components of spring…
Constructed Wetlands Primer For Black & Greywater Treatment
What Are Constructed Wetlands? Constructed wetlands are built to use biology in the purification and clarification of blackwater and greywater effluents generated by human settlement. They are built to mimic the function of actual wetland ecologies, but in a way to prevent premature discharge of effluent waters to the environment. Where Are Constructed Wetlands Appropriate?…
Primer On Green Septic Systems
What Are Green Septic Systems? Green septic systems utilize aerobic biology to fully digest and break down sewage effluent, utilizing it as a fertilizer to grow valuable herbaceous and woody biomass. What Are The Components Of A Green Septic System? A green septic system utilizes traditional greywater and blackwater collection plumbing, a traditional septic tank…
All About Live Staking
What Is Live Staking? Live staking is a tree establishment method by which small-diameter branches or certain tree or shrub species can be pushed, dug or pounded into wet, perennially moist or irrigated soils prior to bud break, where they will strike root and become an entirely new tree or shrub. How Does Live Staking…
The 4 R’s Of Regenerative Hydrology
Abundant water for ourselves and future generations is achievable. A change in mindset from the dominant water scarcity paradigm to a regenerative water abundance paradigm is required. Following this, we have merely but to apply appropriate techniques to completely and utterly transform our private and shared landscapes. We can do this by designing and implementing…
Making Landfall – Your First 60 Days On The Land ~Epi-066
Today’s show is all about the things you have to do to get yourself onto your land quickly without shooting yourself in the foot withe improperly located or oriented structures and roads. Vehicle access is basically an absolute necessity in today’s world. By their very nature, roads are a break from the inherent landform, and…
Vehicle Access For Regenerative Landscapes – Guiding Questions For Watershed Assessment
Running water is the primary natural force that generates the need for maintenance of most man-made access routes. Most drainage needs throughout the landscape are in relation to access routes. Effective drainage is therefore the primary consideration when planning and designing for functional, low-maintenance access (for vehicles, humans and animals) that maintains or improves watershed…
Vehicle Access Fundamentals For Regenerative Landscapes – First Principles
Running water is the primary natural force that generates the need for maintenance of most man-made access routes. Most drainage needs throughout the landscape are in relation to access routes. Effective drainage is therefore the primary consideration when planning and designing for functional, low-maintenance access (for vehicles, humans and animals) that maintains or improves watershed…
Sovereign Food Systems – Pantry Ponds ~ Epi-59
Today we look at another Sovereign Food System – what I’m calling the Pantry Pond. Basically a homestead-scale aquaculture system designed to maximize your food sovereignty via independence from the centralized systems of supply and distribution for any of the inputs required to grow what you want to grow – fish, aquatic vegetables, crawfish, shrimp,…
Sovereign Food Systems – Perennial Protein From Silvopasture Meat Forests ~Epi-58
In today’s show we are talking about creating Sovereign Food Systems. I think this will be a series, or at least a collection of episodes, each one focused on a different type of sovereign food system that can be applied at a variety of scales across a broad range of contexts. Basically, a sovereign food…
