Water Ways - Refining, deepening, observing and adding more complexity
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LONG form video here. This is meant to explore in-depth the intersection of the path water wants to travel through our landscape with how we'd hope to ask it to travel. Quite sure the evolution of this whole system is no where near being fully developed, but here it is along that arc. It feels really important to remember and to convey to others that this system is ever developing, shifting, improving, and relating to the land, the weather and the systems that move through them.
For anyone feeling stuck with where to begin or how to move forward on working with water, I hope this video takes some of that pressure off. I don't know if there is a 'perfect' design you can make in advance, but I do know you can keep chipping away at living systems and helping them always get better and more resilient.
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Happy growing!
The sock work wonderfully. It also helps muffle the street noise.
I was pretty pleased with the socks performance :)
The sock is amazing. There are a bunch of garden You Tubers that could adopt this. But I spend most of my time here. Thank you!!
Your nursery has the most interesting and adaptable combination irrigation & fertilization system I have ever seen.
Joining the crowd, happy thanksgiving ;) One of the things that I enjoy when watching your work, is how so many things you are doing on your scale reflect things that we are doing,, or planning to do, on our twenty acre scale ;) Managing water, moving the silt from waterways up and onto producing beds, etc., etc. Waru waru was a new term for me, so you taught me something new, again ;) I've been hand digging our reflecting pond and moving that rich soil into raised beds around the edges of the pond. By this I'm both providing water storage (after a fashion, the area where I am digging has a water table that comes up above the surface much of the year, so I'm providing a space for open water, but probably not really making any more storage capacity) and creating some better drained soil where we can plant things that won't thrive with wet feet.
These are some of my favorite videos from you. You stack so much function and thoughtfully interact with nature. Chinampas are an amazing idea in that space!!! Another incredibly informative video.
Thank you for the thorough and clear explanation of how to manage water overflow through the garden.❤️🙏
Thank you, Sean. Hope your Thanksgiving was happy.
We always learn from you. Thank you again.
Great job! The silt looks like it’s full of nutrients for your garden and you have clearly given much intelligent thought to everything. Well done indeed!
Happy Thanksgiving! I'm thankful for the knowledge put forth from this channel, amongst a bunch of other things! ✌😌
no need to shell out money for a 'deadkitten' when you have an old sock!...and it worked brilliantly!...your earth/water works are interesting!...cool how you can just 'lead' the water where ever you want it to go...:)
I have a few silt harvesting spots on my farm also. Because of the steepness of my land, I have fewer and I have more difficulty establishing them. They are an incredible source of nutrients. Good job
Thanks. I suspect with a more steep landscape the need for silt catching and careful water management is so so important.
EdibleAcres yes. Very important. Direct catchment is possible but sometimes cant handle floods. I divert flows into beds and plant comfrey rows at the low end. In 8 years, the sediment has transformed rocky, marginal land into productive beds. With mothers in place, I'm now ready to mass produce and install hundreds of berry bushes. The current cuttings of yours are sprouting. I'm worried that their roots may become intangled. I also had a 90 percent success rate rooting goumis in an aeroponic setup
Neighbors must love you.
To be honest I'm not sure what they think of us. Our property is now really unorthodox and I can't quite sense what they think. Either way, they'll get a massive, diverse, beautiful wall of willows to look at :)
Nice!! Popping Turtle Heads 8:49
Very interesting to see how you work with the water. I have a request that you let the printed comments stay on the screen longer. Pretty much the only one I was able to read all of before it disappeared was "good enough for now." :)
Sorry about that... I figure for anyone who wants to read them they can hit pause or the spacebar, and then resume. I thought people would want to see that text for less time! Whoops!
@@edibleacres No worries! I didn't know about the space bar pause. I'm sure you do have viewers who were fine with it. I intentionally live life in the slow lane now. :)
SOCK MICROPHONE!!! :D (smart, cheap modification. I'd expect nothing less from you! :) )
Function stacking! 🤘😎👍
Seems to help keep the windiness off the iphone. I'm happy with the investment :) I just have to remember which pair it goes with :)
The dock worked!
Thanx for the winter gardening inspiration
My pleasure to share.
I love water work, aerobic slow workout at your own pace and lots of reward. My new property slopes down through the length of it from the crown of the road and begs for a rain garden. Observe and design... what is the land telling me it needs for bountiful harvest and reinvestment?
Hopefully it’s a clean sock. They sound so much better than dirty ones!
love it- had the same success in my system. Willow cuttings took off great- though access is starting to become a challenge, maybe ready for next stage- self tending?
Is there anything more fulfilling than digging in soil?
I love it, so long as I can do it for a length of time that feels good/comfortable and then can move onto other things.
In arizona the natives and the now the state government make porous dams in the stream beds every couple hundred feet. It doesn't stop the water but slow it down during the monsoon to stop erosion and rehydrate the soil.
Interesting stuff
Is the "Sea Berry" seabuckthorn? I've always presumed they were sandy/well-drained soil bushes?
Yes, same plant. I thought they'd need/want dry soils too, but so far they seem to be incredibly happy in more muck/dense/clay soils!
@@edibleacres Can they be propagated by stool layering as well? Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!
Lawyer: "Sean, we're here to take your deposition."
Sean: "I'm sorry, only my pond takes depositions."
:)
Nice :)
probably better to mix the silt with some kind of brown matter, leaves or wood chips
chinampas!!
they are usually built into an existing body of water with willow roots holding the soil in.
Right... I think that's why this would be more appropriate to call a strange version of 'Waru Waru'... Although I'm sure I'm nowhere near the thought and design of past peoples works...
Your walkways are waterways?
Certainly not all of the walkways, but in the wettest parts of the garden they are, when we're in the wet season...
@@edibleacres do you have a video specifically on your walkway layout going from one zone to another? And do you have a birds eye view photograph of your property we could see with all the pathways (water, human, other)? Thanks for doing these videos and cataloguing your permaculture adventures. I'm from central california but am living in central vermont so everything you are doing is very helpful for me understanding this climate. Lots of water over here and much less sunshine. Muck boots are a necessity here not a fashion statement.
How is the other ditch going - the one you dug to help contain run off from a neighbour who used weedkiller on his land that bordered yours?
Thanks for asking... It is pretty stable/functional. It really only runs when there is a peak moment in water flow. Heavy heavy rains or dramatic spring thaws will move water through it, so I have to wait to watch how it has settled and be ready to deepen and direct it a bit more. I'm focusing on the planting for it for next year that will help fill out, clean the water and provide privacy...
what type of fish did you put in this? You mentioned you put 4 fish in...
I can't remember now, but I'd guess it would have been goldfish :)
nature does not have a laser level or any kind of level , work with nature not against
Nature has a terrific level, which Sean is using ;) Water ;)
Exactly, the water level is an incredible tool, and the great news is you don't even have to remember to bring one with you if you are doing the work when the water table is high :)
Hmmmmm: adds a new perspective on the old rebuttal "put a sock (on) it!"
Why not lead the water through your garden instead of making it stay in it?
I'm not sure I understand your question.
@@edibleacres
Water comes in 1:11
Pond ro make it stay in garden 1:40
Your garden seems to be to wet, no? Sometimes overflowing, no? Live in a semiswamp bad, no?
Water in, in one end. Water out the other end. No?
Maby water, not to much. Maby water stay, good?
blueberries would grow in the muck
I bet!
Youre so lucky to be on such a wet site youre elderberrys must be beasts
Lucky in some ways and it's a burden in others, just like all contexts.
@@edibleacres i have sandy dry desert like lawn on a open south facing slope. Took 2 years to build soil that holds water lol.
i think you create a swamp.....with muddy walkways....not a good solution from my permaculture view
This video is about showing us how to manage water. It may have been the rainy season there, what better time to do a video when it's a work in progress. I' sure they will get there:)
Do you two have children?
We don't.