Will My Little Ponds Last All Fire Season?
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2019
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Question:
In my Mediterranean climate where there is no rain in the fire season is it realistic to expect little ponds fed by driveway runoff to be deep enough to last through the whole summer and through the end of the fire season? If the goal is to protect from fire isn't water that won't last all season "too little" to make a difference?
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I love the little sly comment about having 16 dams left. said whilst holding back the smirk. I think you've earnt the right to show off a little with what you've accomplished and the movement you've helped inspire.
That pause after he drank the water though. I was holding my breath 😅
“Their native to Mother Earth” love that!
Lmao best quote ever!
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That aerial shot of your property looked incredible.
Thank you so much for taking the time to put these videos together and share your knowledge and experience. We're out in the chihuahua desert in far west Texas starting to implement some of the systems you've presented.
Hey bud, this group was written about in “Gaia’s Garden”. They are in New Mexico desert.
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I hope that this helps as well. They seem to have a very similar philosophy to Geoff and they are a bit closer to you.
Lol, I don't turn to Geoff for comedy... but man I laughed so hard when he just stopped and took a drink and I told my wife wow he just drank that... shortly after he says I reckon I could drink that - I just did! Oh goodness that was funny on video
Fall, winter, spring and FIRE. Has a nice sound to it.
"They're native to planet earth!" Love this!
Gorgeous work. I’ve been binging on your channel. I’ve got a large property up in the mountains of California, that I may be taken care of soon and I will be employing some of your techniques as there is a lot of fire.
Not sure about drinking that water 😂 I love your videos Geoff I’ve been binge watching all of them.
Very inspiring as always Geoff.
Excellent topic 👍
You've confirmed for me, something I always noticed in our landscape (compared to our neighbours) We can be just as brown as them, in an extended dry - but we are the first to green once the rains arrive again. We have swales running across our slopes.
Native to planet earth! Brilliant!
"if you are worried about fire, plant fire proof trees"! One of those trees being mulberries btw.
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Geoff! I can't believe you did that. Lol, for the love of the Gods man. Jiardia!
Giardia isn't everywhere.
Immunity is a wonderful thing.
Thanks for all you and your students do! I have learned so much from your teachings. Never stop!
Amazing, Geoff! I sent an email to your website, to say hello, and see if you might apply your expertise to a new housing industry we are creating. Exciting times, and I become even more interested when considering the swales and water features we can create in the development planning stages, which are excellent for the land. Fireproof trees and damp soils are a great combination to add with the fireproof houses and rooftop pool/reservoirs and gardens we are planning.
A DEFAULT of our action, love that, we are looking at all the default reactions of our systems too. Designed to improve things.
Hi Geoff, I think you're bloody marvelous. I live in Israel and I have followed what you have achieved in Jordan. I have an opportunity to develop an arid valley terrace into a sustainable food forest, but I have doubts as we have no rain for 8 months of the year and large areas of sold rock with areas with less than 2 meter of soil. What are my chances of being successful? I feel that I could pioneer the permaculture design in my region.
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Kate
This all applies to depressions and “ephemeral” ponds (also known as a puddle). Swales and depressions also trap fertility, mulch and topsoil moved downslope in heavy rains.
I’d be interested to hear your view of how to deal with land drains/tile drainage in agricultural land in 🇬🇧… I have finished major earthworks on our place now, but am considering ripping out all the old drainage. Seems silly to keep the water table 1m below the surface when I only have a 1.2t tractor and stay off the land when wet AND we quite often get summers with no rain for 2+ months! They probably limit swale function too…
I Love to watch every single video You are presenting. Thank You very much for all your time and effort. You have a huge impact on my life Geoff. Since 2015 I started to implement permaculture design in Poland (subcarpathian region). We have a lot of silty clay here. Groundwater are high during winter and spring but we get very dry summers recently. Do You recommend slightly off-contour swales for this type of soils and planting on top of berms to avoid waterlogging in plant root zone?
No, on contour and plant pioneer trees like you conditions with deep roots that break up the clay and make it more well drained.
Given mass of bushfires across NSW, what fire protection planting and methods could be used to protect a farm? What species of planting is recommended as fire proofing such as those mentioned as being attractive to slugs?
I remember you was having some seeping on one of your dams. How did you deal with that?
How dry did it get over there during the 2019-2020 summer Geoff? Dry as a bone here on Nimbin side
hi, may i ask, what is a grade cm per metre for swale connecting ponds?
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Geoff please help me out. I've looked up and asked around about swales in sandy porous soil, but yet to get a definitive answer. I'm in western Australia a few kms in from the coast, 100km north of Perth. All I hear is how essential swales are. I can get 70mm of rain and it dissapears immediately, straight down. Should I bother with swales?
No runoff means swales won’t help as far as water goes (they will still trap some organic matter and will operate in your 100 year rain event). That said, it is a common mistake to think you don’t have runoff when you do. If you barely have runoff, the only time to observe runoff is in the heaviest rains you ever get, when the traditional thing to be doing is anything but trodding around looking for runoff.
Yes, it will build. Add organic matter to help it retain water. Even if land looks absolutely flat it will still have slope and move laterally across the surface. A swale will help capture fine soil, humus, and extra water to where you want and need it. You are trying to slow the lateral movement, and a swale will capture it.. Yes, water moves laterally across sand. You only have to look to the hot American Southwest (flooding in Las Vegas Vegas is one example) to find where sandy soils do not "absorb it all". Instead much of the water moves/flows across the surface only to flood other areas. Again, swales help capture the lateral water flow.
You could try to build the swale systems then fill them full of manure and biomass. You can always add bentonite/clay if you have some close by or money. But the biomass and manure is the cheaper/greener option. Grasses/straw/hay work particularly well as they create hydrophobic bio-mats. Get some ducks in there or pigs to really tramp down and gley the material. Gradually the porosity of the soil will decrease. Not sure if Geoff would agree, but its worked in Arizona where they have terrible sandy soils. And don't forget if the land is relatively flat, you need huge long swales, or change the swale size according to slope and soil structure. With sand I found that the berm needs have a wide profile otherwise the sand can easily wash out during big rainfall events. Anyway just my two cents.
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Geoff would agree. You basically said what I said, except you added ducks-which I forgot. Additionally I mentioned that on even "flat land" moves water laterally ...
Plant pioneer trees on your swales that love those conditions and their root net will l reduce the absorbency.
What about mosquitoes
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"Its native to planet Earth 🌏. "
Always baffles me that people refuse to dog ponds or series of ponds because they will dry up or they will seep into the ground. Very strange frame of mind to me. Clear lack of understanding of our earths cycles.