Fabled Oaks Farm - Passive Water Harvesting Earthworks Walkthrough

Join us for a guided tour of the mainframe passive water harvesting swale system installed at Fabled Oaks Farm as part of their larger whole site plan to create a regenerative homestead and family farm.
The earthworks detailed in this video include ~ 1,000 feet of swale lines, two rolling dips, numerous armored transition points and spillways and a roadside pick up drain. This system, during an average rain year in Temecula, CA of ~ 12", should allow the FOF team to infiltrate an additional 750,000 to 1.5 million gallons of water that would have otherwise quickly run-off their property or traveled right past it in the roadside drain, on the way to the creek. See the system in action during the first rain here: • Fabled Oaks Farm Passi...
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[@meh4164]

I have watched several swale videos but this is definitely the best! Thanks for sharing the work!

[@patblack2291]

It's been a year. I bet there have been a couple swale-filling rains since these earthworks were completed. Would love to see an update. Great work!

[@7thGenerationDesign]

Hi Pat, Our clients have had one rain since we installed this system that had some significant run-off from the road. We'll see if they're ok with us posting some of their phone footage of the pick-up drain, and get that up if so :)

[@kwlweapons]

@@7thGenerationDesign what did they say? Would love to see an update too

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[@dort5436]

Please do an update on how the works.

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[@tiffanywilkerson5569]

Super cool to see.. thanks for the video

[@Tom-rz9dg]

Incredible, thanks for the indepth discussion at each point, in a climate zone similar to mine.

[@aaaaaa2206]

Great video and explanation. Would love to see and update video on how the property handles rain.

[@7thGenerationDesign]

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[@aaaaaa2206]

@@7thGenerationDesign Thank you!

[@eddeddesc3717]

Beautiful 👌🏽

[@christensantschi]

Casey this is AWESOME!!!

[@7thGenerationDesign]

Thanks Christi!

[@macw2234]

Fascinating

[@rudypadillapadilla6372]

Do you have a video with the results after a rain storm ? I would really love to see that .

[@7thGenerationDesign]

Hi Rudy, no rain storm results yet - this systems was installed in February of '21, so this coming winter we'll hope to get some footage of it in action.

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[@lawrencemckeon6802]

Amazing.

[@aldas3831]

Awesome!

[@nyghtly-derek]

This system looks great! I'm excited to see it in action. Are you at all concerned about erosion at the road crossings?

[@7thGenerationDesign]

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[@tonyl4438]

Really nice design, would love to see how it performs under heavy torrential rains.

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[@inthegarden6556]

Awesome earthworks! I need this done. Know of anyone that does this in Shasta County area?

[@giljuarez9047]

Awesome!!

[@7thGenerationDesign]

Thanks Gil!

[@giljuarez9047]

@@7thGenerationDesign I’m located in SLO and think you guys have projects in the area I’d love to check out? Fantastic what you’re up to!

[@7thGenerationDesign]

@@giljuarez9047 We certainly do, most of our work has been in SLO county to date. We had a tour scheduled at Lonely Palm Ranch in Arroyo Grande just as the COVID crazy was starting to take hold, back in March, which was postponed indefinitely. Most of our other sites are private homes and ranches. If any tours do get scheduled, we'll certainly send out word via our quarterly community service letter - you can join that on our website if you feel called :)

[@ajones8699]

So all the oil rubber ect will be washed off the road on to your property. 🤔

[@AllSectorsHearThis]

How much did this work cost?

[@roberto.gallegos]

Want to see it in action

[@7thGenerationDesign]

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[@melissasueferrin3409]

Is there any footage of this in action? With rain?

[@7thGenerationDesign]

The couple we installed this for just sent us some videos they took during the heavy rain around New Years - good shots of the roadside pick up drain in action, and some water in the swales - we'll check to see if they're OK with us posting and hopefully we'll have it up soon :)

[@knutvreb6506]

@@7thGenerationDesign Hei! 6 months later; have you been able to upload it? I couldn't see it on your channel... Like many others here I'm curious to see the result :)

[@TheCommono]

​@@7thGenerationDesign I'm dying to see that footage... 😭

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[@bagbroch9339]

lol all the videos stopped. Epic failure. You can’t just do all the digging an shit like this and expect it to work like magic. Dude def went nuts when half his systems failed after he did all the “work” of planning. You gotta keep changing your plans. This video is comedy gold

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