Grow Food, Fodder, Fences And Forts For Cheap With Livestaking ~Epi-072
Today’s episode is a short primer on live staking – what it is, how it works, what its good for, what types of species you can use to do it, and how to harvest, prepare and plant your live stakes. If you have perennially moist soils in need of stabilization, or are able to irrigate…
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…
To Swale Or Not To Swale ~Epi-018
Join me today for a critical-thinking dive into swales – we cover what they are, the functions they perform and how they perform them, and then go into all of the context-specific factors that inform the decision of “To Swale Or Not To Swale”. More than being a referendum on swales, today’s show is meant…
Sovereign Water: The 4 R’s of Regenerative Hydrology ~Epi-016
In today’s show we discuss the 4 R’s of Regenerative Hydrology – Receive, Retain, Recharge, and Release – a simple mental framework for evaluating how your landscape is functioning with regards to the water element, AND how you can make changes in your management and design to optimize it for the benefit of your land,…