After 2 years of #permaculture observation of the land, I feel ready to tackle #earthworks. Maybe today I take a babystep by scraping a water catchement feature on the top of the land.

The hard part in this #arid #climate is "planning/designing for a flood".

Lat year we got 1 rain event causing runoff, tha5t's when you need to be present and be outside to watch where water flows, how much runoff there is and so forth.

It is a bit frustrating sometimes planning ahead so far in the future, but, when you know what to expect and build a water catchement feature when it's bone dry and wait 3 months for the rains to come... when they do come and your carefully designed feature works... that moves my heart and makes me silly happy!

This test canal has #apple #trees planted from #seed in it, and the survived theirs first year which was a very dry one.

The next improvement on this system or feature is designing/improving a solution for catching #silt. Now there is a wider part just before the catchement reservoir (canal) and it catches some but not enough.

Any ideas?

#nature #homesteading #farm #desing #proofofwork #grownostr #sharingiscaring