My Most Valuable Resource & I Am Losing It!

[@aaronlentz5002]

Australian here, some of us over here are learning this lesson about water banking too late.

[@GypsyBrokenwings]

I love Sepp! Been studying his methods for years. I agree 100 percent with you...you could have an awesome pond and swale system out there with free electricity and water system for the cattle. You could teach the other farmers by proving it works.

[@vax_gax_lax_bax_max_vax2578]

sepp holzer? U mean him?

[@coffeebuzzz]

@@vax_gax_lax_bax_max_vax2578 What makes you think he's talking about Sepp Holzer? Is it the fact that Simeon was talking about Sepp Holzer?

[@vax_gax_lax_bax_max_vax2578]

@@coffeebuzzz I don't know, I asked a question if he meant him. If he meant Holzer then I will watch and listen to him too.

[@terrywereb7639]

Sapp Holder was the first guy I ever saw on KZbin that helped me connect/link my love of environment with agriculture.

[@craigmccann1028]

You could use the drop in elevation to your advantage. Certain times of the year and during rain events you could use the water to spin a small water turbine and supplement your electric use.

[@tinamariegregory3130]

Fascinating ! It really make s a lot of sense to keep the resource where it would naturally be. It's good to see what you all have been up to so far this winter. God bless you all.

[@lint2023]

So fun - your son went so fast from "I can't get in the water" to "I can't stay out of the water".

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Swales my man. I discuss swales in almost every video I make. They completely changed my systems. Best things I have ever done.

[@kiddfamilyfarmllc9962]

Amen

[@rayward9265]

Not swales. Keyline design, ponds, mob grazing, increase the organic composition.

[@swamp-yankee]

@@rayward9265 Cheaper, and less intrusive. Our earth works out live us.

[@601salsa]

@@rayward9265 depends on the land but i would totally agree to a mix of all techniques. Keyline, swales, holistic management rotational grazing, permaculture, resourse maximisation, renewable tech.

[@alanwhitaker1320]

Swales are tree growing systems. If you want pasture, swales won't work. The animals will destroy them.

[@nativestand1]

Do it!We have been using hugelkultur here in Minneapolis and St.Paul.Even in a dense urban situation,we have created habitat,wetland restoration as well as erosion control and some nice victory gardens. Thank you!

[@diceportz7107]

Where I live in the US, the State will help you dig a pond. We have them everywhere. They give the added benefit of providing good fishing in addition to watering livestock.

[@lindapolle1665]

Yes, that idea occurred to me too. In Sweden it might be something like a grant from a wildlife conservation group.

[@davidmc8110]

Don't be too quick to judge based on your new revelation. You can improve your situation from what you've learned for what you want to do. There were good reasons to drain the water, and you can learn from both.

[@lindapolle1665]

Yes, drain water. The question is "drain to where?" Another water feature to consider is what is known as a "dry well". Sorry, more homework. Basically it is a hole filled with rocks or gravel, and covered. It is used to catch run offs, and allow them to slowly seep into the soil. This is a good practice in drainage of livestock yards.

[@battles146]

retention ponds - slow the water down and maybe figure out a collection process - act like the beavers do :D

[@zuzannaszmidel2305]

i wanted to write that recently i was reading how much good beavers are doing! And still - at least in Poland, everyone is fighting them :(

[@kerryl4031]

They have been monitoring beavers not so far away from here - not released into the wild, but controlled. Has been of great benefit for flood prevention and an increase in other wildlife species.

[@DootDootShamoot]

Yes!!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZjIZmhpn56rjKc

[@lindapolle1665]

Yes, there is a saying in the USA Army Corps of Engineers, "Do not let water run off the land. Make it walk!"

[@hollyslaughter5505]

Have you tried keyline plowing to aid in water management? A friend used it on their farm in Wisconsin and rejuvenated their failing well by slowing the runoff and returning it to the aquifer.

[@FieldtoFarm_UK]

The trouble is big modern machines dont work in wet fields, so for the industrial scale harvests they need dry fields I.e good drain tiles.

[@saemushailstorm3135]

can use draught horses w/plow to break ground as was done in past

[@FieldtoFarm_UK]

@@saemushailstorm3135 draught horses dont feed 7 billion with rice corn and wheat

[@simeonandalex]

Yes. that is one of the issues indeed. But then the next step is to realize that those big industrial fields are not as efficient as people think and they are getting worse and worse while destroying the environment... I am also not talking about wet fields. I am talking about stable water levels year round by working with nature and the right plants.

[@FieldtoFarm_UK]

@@simeonandalex the bad weather in England this year has ment all the large farms around us have basically missed a crop rotation this winter and didn't get a full harvest in either mostly as they couldnt get the machines in the deep mud. So it's kind of a necessity to have good drainage for arable farms even if regenerative agriculture's practiced. They 100% could practice better land management that's for sure tho! You could maybe build a few ponds along your seasonal stream to capture enough for your needs before it escapes and you may also be able to keep your stream flowing all year if you make them right 👍👍

[@tammoilliet8683]

You are a kindred spirit Simeon. I am about you age taking on my family's farm in Canada. I can tell you want nothing more than to work in sync with the land and it's nature. I feel your passion and ambition and I can tell that you are in constant pursuit of true wisdom. If you seek wisdom, you shall surly find her. Your success shall be great my friend!

[@tomstack6871]

swales on bias going across your meadow to draw it back and forth across your meadow with capture ponds, Sepp and Lawton are awesome vids !!

[@danielschneider1504]

As a short-term measure, while you design your pond system, you mght consider building piles of rocks (not tight, like dams, but something that will let the water through, just slower than where it's free-running) in the streambed every so often, so at least the flow gets slowed down, and drops its sediment load, so you're not losing soil as well as water.

[@miraleatardiff8543]

You are addressing in this video one thing that I have been saying about my farm for the past 9 years. We are wasting our snowmelt/spring runoff every spring. (I live in Western Canada) We have six natural ponds/swales here, two of which retain water year-round, all of which collects and holds water and keeps the surrounding soil hydrated,. We also have a sloped area coming down from the forest where we lose an incredible amount of snowmelt that just runs across and off the pasture and into a small ravine (also on the property) to disappear into the forest further down. It has been a dream of mine to dig a couple of new and deeper ponds to collect and hold that runoff. People keep telling me to work on improving the drainage; I just want to build ponds to hold onto it little longer so it can soak into the land. I have tried explaining this to people; perhaps your video will help me get the point across :-).

[@FLPhotoCatcher]

Whether you need ponds and swales does depend on how much rain you get per year. I agree that 200 mm is not much. Here in TN, we get well over twice as much as you do. Topography and soil type also factors in.

[@PIANOSEEDS]

You are such a cool dad letting your son splash and walk in the water. I used to love scuffing my shoes in the gutter. I'd get up early on the weekends, put my robe on and sneak out the front door, and into the gutter I'd go. I'd follow the water wherever it took me, and my father would get in the car and find me sometimes blocks away. Not a good idea in the city, but on a farm, it must be so much fun!! Your son reminded me of that. Wonderful video. You're on your way to being a world class farmer.

[@philcoppa]

Mark Shepard has a new book out adjusting the Yeoman's Key Line system. from Acres USA

[@bubba16430]

One can't help but smile when a youngen gets to playing in the mud and water.

[@HansQuistorff]

Same here. I have been gradually trying to undo the north south ditches put in to drain the water that collects in the field during the winter rains. After observing that the field naturally has a big Z swale in it, I have over the past 5 years been enhancing that feature. Taking the muck out of swampy areal and using it to fill the ditches and creating shallow ponds. An interesting thing developed; moles began tunneling out of the plum orchard and hedge row to the ponds as the field dried because there is little rain from mid May until mid September. The next winter as the ponds filled the water fallowed the tunnels back out into the field storing more water than the year before..

[@offgridsweden]

Great video Simeon. Have an amazing week, Andreas 🇸🇪

[@jeannel1065]

Danny sure loves the water. So cute and nice that you let your child be a child.

[@Cate7451]

We had a ton of rainfall last year. I am on a hill so it drained. My good gardening friend was rotted out as she was on flatland. It's good what you are thinking because a hillside gives you options. So a pond may give you best of two words. Yes so important to build your pond where the water wants to go to. Such good ideas here.

[@woodynook3437]

I am so interested in whatever you teach us. You are so very right in that so much water in our country is taken for granted and so many ways it could work for us. Thank you again for your videos.

[@allentowngal4769]

Nothing brings wonderful diverse birds and wildlife like a water source. Will enjoy watching you develop it.

[@LIZZIE-lizzie]

At 08:48, you mentioned installing a "pond" system, which was my stream of thought - oh, lol, unintentional double entendre there. We also had a flowing stream, small river that was open to fishermen at one point in time. Fifty years later, the stream was running with much less water but human waste putrified the water and today it is dry. There was a natural underground spring that fed the house with water for almost one hundred years. That too has dried up. The farm is no longer a working farm and the whole of the land has been designated as a water shed. The freshest, cold clean water runs down the mountain and at one point it becomes a water fall known as Buttermilk Falls. This water continues and feeds the reservoir that serves a community. The elevation is high, and pools of water form within the rock structure. Some small enough for one to sit in and some natural pools are six feet deep, refreshing the body with clear, cold water. Thunder sounds like a gun that went off next to your ear. These natural water sources have been there since the beginning of time, in my mind, just as those mountains have been there since God created them! Literally, the landscape is exactly how God made it with very little added or taken away by man. I hope your idea for a pond comes to fruition - Wishing you all the best in your homestead and may God bless you, in Jesus' name.

[@christelchristely2816]

Viktor Schauberger is someone you should also read up upon before starting any project touching water. First aid is to plant willows along the ditch, they slow the water.

[@bernadettejeffers7533]

Retention Pond, Great Idea! I have watched you lug a lot of water ! !! cattle ranches in drier climates of America use them. They dig a big hole near run off areas put in some slue gate irrigate the surrounding ground when needed. Cattle could also drink from the ponds too. What I find amazing in the early days they made them with a shovel! Glad you are feeling better, and hope family are well!

[@kirstenwhitworth8079]

No, No, no - I think you are 100% correct in your assessment of "modern (agricultural) education". Perhaps it is different in Sweden and Germany, but in the US, we rely heavily on petrochemicals - both in fertilizer and in pesticides. I know you already know this principle, but perhaps another reader might not know. We are not taught to recycle the wastes of one system as beneficial nutrients for other systems. For example, cows eat grass and make urine and manure. If you remove the cows from the grass, you get oceans of manure and urine. However, if you put the cows on grass, the soil absorbs the manure and urine to make it available to the grass, which grows better. The trick is getting the balance right - the grass needs time to recuperate after being eaten, and the manure and urine must morph into a form usable by the plants. The more biodiversity - in the right mixes at the right times in the right places - the stronger the system as a whole. Most schools here in America no longer teach critical thinking. It is not beneficial to corporations to have workers who can think for themselves, nor is it beneficial to governments to have citizens who can criticize policy. In general, education in America has degraded severely since I was in school (I just turned 63). The children are taught how to pass tests, not how to live and learn in their environment. They are not taught basic skills for surviving in the cities, much less in the country. They are taught minimal basic skills to make them good employees for large corporations.

[@paulatwood998]

Kirsten,you are so correct in your evaluation of the education system here in America the moms & dads in the world need to teach more at home that is necessary or when our youngsters leave the nest.

[@terrywereb7639]

That's" stream" looks too straight to be natural. Water running in a straight line like that also accelerates erosion. I agree...put in swales, direct water into ponds, create high quality wetlands around the retention areas. Directing water under ground helps the guy a few miles away, as well.

[@kirstenwhitworth8079]

@@terrywereb7639 I think that is was dug to drain the fields. Doesn't Simeon mention this in the video?

[@lindapolle1665]

@@kirstenwhitworth8079 Yes, I believe you are correct. Many farming practice ideas came from the Low Countries. In England this influenced the draining of the Fens. Better practice is to restore natural systems of nutrient recycling.

[@paulbadger6336]

Well done 👍 I like your thought process.

[@TheStormisComing24]

Absolutely! You are on the right track. People struggle to put ponds in and then they evaporate because they absorb/drain into the earth or just dry up because of no natural in source. You have a natural flow and a natural place where it pools. I think if you do what you say it will be successful. Goodluck!

[@brucea550]

Glad you’ve discovered Sepp. Graduating from Salatin to Holzer will improve your results in amazing ways.

[@vax_gax_lax_bax_max_vax2578]

you mean sepp holzer?

[@brucea550]

@@vax_gax_lax_bax_max_vax2578 Yes. Lot of wisdom. They are fans of Joel Salatin but he seems kind of a hack compared to the methods Sepp demonstrates.

[@kiddfamilyfarmllc9962]

Yes great resources

[@felix1185]

Sounds like you just outlined your plan for 2020! I do hope it is realized! Great to see you and your son well!!

[@wordswritteninred7171]

Wonderful idea! Learn about run off. Especially in reference to animal waste. I wish you great success!

[@suttonbogedain5874]

One little encouragement. now you'll never get Daniel out of the stream. Good for you both!!

[@johnnybigpotato2404]

Many people like to use KZbin to brag or show off. They do not use it to share thoughts and dreams and failures and learning experiences, like you do, so that we can all learn and grow. Thank You! :)

[@bookmarkmonaco4255]

You can do many things, one is to dig wells in the bed of the creak so you don’t loose pasture land or dig a new “s” shape waved bed to slow down the speed of the water.

[@saemushailstorm3135]

Winter IS best time for getting out , strolling about , looking around & listen to what talks to you ; sort of a 'revelation' yes ? having worked on ponds as Landscape Gardener & farms also , how would you actually approach/do this ? wait til Sommer when ground is firmer ? machines Vs handwork ? in earlier times draught horses were used to break ground > whats possible here ? & yes , you would REALLY develop out scope , breath & diversity of habitat/environment by creating such water features as any scientist could testify ! WONDERFUL - BRILLIANT !!!

[@donaldmiller8629]

Hi Simeon , One problem that I can see with your drainage ditch is that it is quite straight. Which facilitates the flow of water. Some swales to make the water flow sideways and slow down would help a lot. Creating a pond will help also. And also a ram pump as you said to return the water to the upper levels. In addition to the loss of the water is that the flowing water is also removing the top soil. You are on the right track. I will be watching with interest. One thing for certain. A ditch with flowing water makes a great place for a little boy to play.

[@cherrylane79]

Interesting. Most of the farmers in Finland also are just trying to get rid of the excess water. But when it's dry in the summer, the crops suffer.

[@angelaevalynnwainwright4494]

Well said, I like the way you are thinking.

[@MarvinLStohs]

that is what "Little Johnny" said

[@salliebeard1899]

Good luck... Thanks for sharing ❤️

[@stephaniechavez9422]

that was very informative simeon. i left california in 1977. but my family still lives there. i was shocked when she told me that it was illegal for her to use catch barrels to capture rain water. we have already seen in a state, calif, what water capture and retention mismanagement looks like. when they finally got all that rain after a very long drought, dams broke and waters spilled into cities and then to the ocean. they never repaired their dams, reservoirs, and did not bother to build new ones. i live in washington state and we pay more for water coming from the columbia river because a lot of it gets pumped into calif. and i live 15 mins from the columbia river. you found the truth about water management on a small or big scale. keep spreading the word. change does not come nor easy. but how wonderful if people, via your youtube vlogs, can see what water management looks like in a productive natural way. i find this very exciting.

[@slycat1939]

Praying that you find a way to quickly harness the water to further better the use of it towards your farm. I know whatever you decide will benefit both you and your farm animals. A pond would be good for your cattle in hot summers. Hoping and praying you all stay well. God bless you all always.

[@lindapolle1665]

Yes, water, my random tips: Lay out your overflow with respect to the direction of the prevailing wind. This will best capture floating trash into the mouth of the overflow. Plan for a drain pipe. Consider how standing water holds soil tempture. Of course Permaculture has systems for this. Plan a "swimming " edge on a part of your pond's shore. Poultry houses built above water courses move nutrients through the soil.

[@-sstevens5444]

The stream is filling the pond/lake. What happens when you divert water?

[@4KidsandaFarm]

Have you thought of above ground tanks. Ponds are always a great addition.

[@christineortmann359]

Great idea- we have 2 retention ponds to collect all our sump pump water- I then use it to water plants.

[@elenidemos]

In Australia we used to use a system called leaky weirs. Normally made of local stone packed tightly together with soil & gravel. This builds a dam that is not 100% water tight. This slows the water when you get it, allowing most of it to soak into the earth. Also allows the area to drain so the farmer down the river (creek) can do the same thing, or in your case allow what cannot be used or stored to travel to the lake. Not so much used these days, but there is re-newed interest in it. everydayfutures.com.au/project/leaky-weir/

[@CJMactaggartknits]

Can you legally divert it? In Canada we can't. If you can Bury a barrel along the waters path, so it collects in it then run a pump to drive the water into a collection tank. Take what you need, store it, and you will have it for drought time.

[@eaglebreath5]

Great message. Thank you for sharing.

[@kaylajason8917]

We tile our farm in the states not to rid of the water but to keep the water flushing the nutrients off our land. If the water is able to go into the soil then flow into the tile system the nutrients stay in the soil. But I agree 100% that if feasible to retain the water the flows off our land, especially when we need it for dry spells.

[@MKCarol-ms7lg]

Danny is so cute and he was making good use of that water. I kept waiting for you to pull out your shovel. ;)

[@dianecharles881]

I totally agree, we have droughts in the summer at times, we put a pond area where our property is a as at is the lowest ! Rain always keeps it full !

[@C69FH]

I think you hit the nail on the head... You are on to something here. I hope to see you make that natural pond on your property and see it on video someday soon. 👊😎👍✌😉👌

[@chrisyoung732]

Swales on contour would slow it all down and you can use the swales to create cell grazing patterns into your design to further improve your pastures. You might also want to think about using pigs to help clear areas of your forest too. Water is one of the first things you plan in a permaculture design. It may take some earth works to help the natural pattern become a useful design but will be well worth it

[@jennifersinclair6044]

It's not just Sweden. It's a problem in the US too. Everyone is so afraid of flooding they don't utilize the water like they could. Ponds are awesome, but don't forget underground cisterns are a fantastic option too. So, you don't lost water to evaporation. Can't wait to see how you utilize all that glorious water!

[@richardmccombs617]

I agree with previous comment , retention ponds. My uncles were dairy farmers and made cow ponds . Not in center of stream but off to the side with a blender into the pond. We just lined the with clay and it held up well. On another point all houses (or just about) had cistern on the house catching roof run off. This water was not used to drink but the water was used for washing and watering plants. Not new technology, just saying. Good luck.

[@Afraithe]

A lot of farmers are building ponds in the south of Sweden actually, then pump it during drought periods. So yes, ponds work great, but gotta be careful, while drought can be devastating and give slow growth etc, _nothing_ grows in a waterlogged field.

[@mikealmere70]

Best video I've seen from you. Sepp Holzer is a big inspiration to me as well.

[@kirstenwhitworth8079]

Putting in an interlinked pond system will make your farm much more resilient during the next drought. The biodiversity it will bring in will improve the "immune system" of the entire farm, if not the whole peninsula. PS - Happy New Year.

[@kenc3288]

Excellent logic.....a ram pump down near the lake could pump water up to some gravity tanks to supply your house etc. Swales would work well to fill dams during high rain fall events too. Keep up the good work.

[@solarmksolarmk9682]

Good idea, you can make a lot of trout fishponds and ducks fishponds areas

[@lindapolle1665]

Yes, many small ponds are better than one large. An important resource to capture is "shoreline".

[@sandramajowicz5844]

Would there be a negative effect on the lake where this water drains to? We lived in Northern Colorado where we had many reservoirs, no natural lakes. These were privately owned and the water was sold to farmers in the growing season. The reservoirs were also used for recreation. The water was distributed to farms through ditches from about April to October, then we're dry through the winter.

[@heatherinparis]

Sounds good Simeon....what's keeping you from doing it?

[@lindapolle1665]

Yes, I say just do your homework. Invite Sep over, or go see him.

[@MichaelWells770]

What my grandparents did on thier farm in dry California was to have an artifical pond dug with a backhoe, and lined in concrete. Ended up ofsetting 1/3 of the water use.

[@abuelitacaicedo3185]

Here on the west coast of Canada we had a house with a well. The water was great! And even here with all the rain that well would slow in the later summer and we had to conserve. That was 25 years ago. Summers are dryer now so it would be even more of a concern now I am sure. Yes. Do what you can!

[@kohp111]

Make sure you check what your local laws are and if you are allowed to make a pond on your property. Many places do not let you divert water flows or damn up streams.

[@craigmooring2091]

What do you think about a series of shallow berms to cause the runoff to meander all over that area more slowly with more of the water sinking in on its way with the berms leading the water to ponds in those areas you say the water wants to stay anyway and finally leaving your property where it does now? Have you thought about Richard Perkins' Key Line system? I like the idea of the ram pump turning a seasonal flow into (almost) a year-round flow by just catching it at the bottom of the pasture and sending it back up to the top over and over. A lot of the flow would not get recycled so it wouldn't be causing the forest to dehydrate as long as some water makes it all the way to the lake.

[@bighammer587]

I don’t know how things are everywhere else, but here in the US water has always just simply flowed downhill. The steeper the terrain, the faster it moves. (Same thing happens with your sunlight. It comes to you only during the daytime. At night it leaves, you can’t stop it).

[@Goldenhawk583]

The difference is it will meander in nature, follow the contours of the terrain much more . When we dig ditches, we make it too easy for water to leave the soil, by building swales, we can make the water meander more, and stay longer. Water still runs downhill, but saying you can not keep is is only true to an extent, yes it will eventually run off the property, but if it spends 2 weeks doing that, rather than 10 minutes, you have much better soil for your plants and pastures. Look into permaculture.. rather than just give up?

[@zuzannaszmidel2305]

but it can flow in the straight like or in curves, unlike sunlight :P

[@deborahgilliland1804]

Something tells me we will be seeing pond building in the future. The cattle will love it and the kids too

[@susansollee1839]

Does your dad use water from the lake? 🙏🏻🤗👍🏻🌻💕💕Danny’s doing what most kids would love to do. I really enjoy watching him.🤗🌻

[@oswaltedmund6257]

Love to see this project come together!

[@karenlassalle4880]

Blessings my Mother Earth friend..your growing :)

[@tamitng]

So what does your father say about building a couple of ponds? With the weather changing all over the world, getting hotter and dryer, this sounds like a great idea for the future of your family farm. 🍀

[@gardenlady1293]

Great thoughts! Prayers to you all!

[@andy6043]

Use spreader dams to direct run off to and from low areas. You should be able to do this with shovel work and using natural stone, sod, etc.

[@Mindy56743]

Check out Gabe Brown and the regenerative ag. He talks about the ability of the ground to hold the water like a sponge. Most of it comes to the microbes.

[@michaelsallee7534]

consider keylines and swales, yes at times you may have greater than can soak into the ground; but never let it flow off. small ponds to trap sediment with overflows wether / and tubes or weirs. in all cases start at the tops and work downslope, by having structures uphill, keyline swale weir tube; will decrease the size needed for below. whatever way do the cheapest, massive earth projects can do harm in themselves

[@user-rh5jp2sh4s]

So what do you intend to do about it any concrete plans

[@jakecynthiaray8985]

On our farm. We are 1 yr into our life here. Anyways, on our farm we have tiers. It is a Mountainous area at the end of the Appalachian trail. Our winter is definitely mostly rain, and so very much of it. There is evidence that our property once hosted a stream.. we are working to reestablish more permaculture which in our case is revitalizing soils, and correcting the natural habitat of our land. Your video is sooooo very important. Recognizing where you could build or encourage rather biodiversity and naturally is fantastic. Just remember this correction takes time. Dont forget to take brain breaks because nature certainly does not work on our timeline. She very much tends to do her own thing. Thanks for the video! Nice to see your family getting back well again as well. I believe everyone has had a bleak and sick winter this year.

[@rambrasil]

Have a question: if everyone does this it will prevent that water reaching the lake and break the overall water cycle correct? We need to figure out smart and sustainable ways of using the water that flows through property. We are not owners of water. It is not getting “lost” but exchanged via lake. That being said I love the idea of water retention areas. You need to have enough trees to keep the water cycle going then. Love your channel !

[@gelwood99]

Swales for sure, as you also said it is taking soil, sediment, and nutrients with it. Sean @Edible Acres has turned excess water running through his land into small, holding areas that feed hugelkulture beds.

[@davidepool5884]

We have 4 ponds on our land for water collection. There’s one more place where we should have a pond. We’ve raised catfish to sell for extra income in all of them. Right now they are full of several kinds of pan fish, catfish, and bass.

[@kimjameson7979]

Terraced retention pools with filter foliage perhaps? Seems to me, a crop of Cajun mudbugs and gumbo would be a fine addition to the canning shelves, or a guy could become the crawdad and catfish magnate supplier for restaurants in your area. Don't forget cornbread baked in a black iron skillet and fried pickles. Any Cajun restaurants near you? :-))

[@patriciaasturias1007]

Kim Jameson Sweden may not be familiar with that type of food.

[@kimjameson7979]

@@patriciaasturias1007 Yet...

[@601salsa]

Swales..... check out permaculture swales. They dont have to be huge, just the size of the creek you have. If you want you could feed the swales into a mini lake/pond. You could have water for irrigation/livestock in summer then. It will also soak into the land more. Go on contour at your paddock boundaries and dig a ditch/swale. It will minimise interruption to your paddock. Check out zaytuna farm australia geoff lawton.

[@MrKsClassroom]

The proper drainage of the land is important. Too much water and you'll have boggy soil which is bad for animals and vegetation that you may want to raise. It is tricky to get the balance right. Remove water too quickly and the land becomes arid. It takes a lot of planning and effort to maintain a proper balance. Nature does it best, but if we want to USE the land for production, sometimes we have to alter it for our benefit. Planning is key! Do it wrong and it ruins everything...

[@allonesame6467]

Observation will inform your Independent and Logical Thinking!

[@lindapolle1665]

Yes, I like you, went to school for agriculture. Now I am faced with unlearning what I was taught. I thank God that I was also a Biology student, and now can see the "Sins of the fathers".

[@Alturvexs]

I would leave that "ditch"/creck run off alone, it helps feed the forest if you take that away you will notice a change after a few years. Get the water from the rain fall from water sheds, and ponds.

[@saddleridge4364]

I think you should do the pond, Simone, just watch out for the kids once it's there, maybe fence it off with some woven wire galvanized fence.

[@robertgibson9527]

Hej Simeon, I recommend you build swales to hold and distribute water ro to pastures.. Lycka till, med ett bra ar for 2020. Manga halsningar fran Robert i Alaska.

[@Jimunu]

Tack för att du fattar också hur skadligt, i sitt resursslöseri och kortsiktighet 1900talets vattenavlednings tankesätt är.

[@rebeccabussiere7070]

D ig your wells deeper to another aquaphor. I l ive in the Pacific NW . we have a lot of rain, but do have times of drought. Some older farms did not look at the runoff areas and ended up contaminating their well s from the pastures on high land. Some drained off in to Puget Sound and affecting the eco system

[@oldlifter530]

Look up Peter Andrews he explains how to use your seasonal creek Australian farmer who learned to regenerate farmland

[@TheMwales]

this has been my argument here in america. Industrial agriculture has not allowed for water scarcity or allowing restored wetlands to buffer periodic flooding. it is so frustrating.

[@suttonbogedain5874]

How deeply can you dig, my brother? Enough for 100k litres? Doees that open up a geothermal possibility as well?

[@tonygrimes13]

Sutton Bogedain - 100K litres is 10m x10m x 1m, not a big pond.

[@suttonbogedain5874]

​@@tonygrimes13 I mis-wrote it. I was going for 260,000 gallons US equivalent. Not that used to metric. Should have let Simeon convert it for me.

[@tonygrimes13]

@@suttonbogedain5874 Approx 1 million litres then, about 31m x 31m x 1m.

[@frangargett3296]

Looks like pond is going to be built, it can be use to water field in summer

[@srqlisa7881]

Check out 'April Wilkersons' channel she just had a rain catch system installed on her property 30,000 gallon tank. You still have time to save some water before it's gone, now go. : ) peace

[@rochrich1223]

I wonder if the phrase " well drained soil" is misleading. From what I understand, the oxygen level is more important than how much water. So why don't we bury soaker hose half a meter down and pump air when it's wet and water when it's dry?