What is the Timeline of Water Elements Installed on Zaytuna Farm?

Question

Were all the water elements installed on Zaytuna Farm built at the same time? Would you walk us through the timeline and thought process which was applied?

Key Takeaways

- The water elements at Zaytuna have been installed over time, a sequence of events done with courses rather than all at once.
- We started with a house site near a dam, with the two positions picked together.
- Then, we went straight to the top of the hill and picked a spot that had high water capacity for gravity irrigation. The high dam had a swale that lead to two more dams at the same contour level.
- Later, we found the lowest point on the highest boundary and put a dam in. It has the largest input gully, and it’s in the mid-slopes. We used the contour line from there to feed more dams.
- The dam near the house eventually led around the campsite and to two more dams.
- Feature by feature we installed, sometimes finding a good site for a swale that led to a future dam, and sometimes with a dam site that had a swale spillway that led to more dams.
- We don’t take down a forest to put in swales.

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[TheWeedyGarden]

Geoff is one of the few people that just talk and talk…buuut…you just want to keep listening. 💜 I remember doing a video with Geoff. It was sooo hard to edit because he didn’t pause for five minutes but I only need two 🎥😅 Buuut…that’s why he is such a good teacher. 💪🏻👍Thank you GL for all that I’ve learnt from you!

[frankbrake]

You sir are one of the greatest teachers on this planet.

[Conus]

Discovering Permaculture Principles was the greatest thing that happened to me, even in a small yard i managed to work in systems that provide good harvests. Bless you sir!

[sharonhenry]

Hi Geoff, I have been watching your your videos for years and have learnt so much. I would love to see a diagram of all the water systems on Zaytuna

[chijiokekingsley]

Thank you for your passion for humanity. Your teaching is comprehensible and rich. I'm thinking of being your disciple in permaculture farming❤

[CarlosGutierrez-xspe]

I have a farm in Colombia with 900 Tahiti lime trees on clay soil planted 6x6 meters in triangle. 5 years ago
I am considering building alternating 12 meter swales with a 6 meter space
Down the slope every 30 meters
Since the trees are now almost touching some pruning will be necessary
What do you think of this?

[basilsmith]

+, благодарю! Немного не хватает анимации на карте, для лучшего понимания:)

[robroy]

Geoff do you get frost in your area? Does anyone know please ?

[barnabyvonrudal]

Do the swale berms ever need re-topping? I mean if the top part of the mound erodes away for whatever reason so you need to add more dirt to maintain a level berm height

[richermorin]

hi im wondering when you do permaculture how do you make sure that the food has no bacterias like salmona or e. coli etc...

[Oiltosoil]

Will you all be offering an online PDC this year?

[tiffanywilkerson]

Thanks Geoff... how do you not have mosquitoes everywhere with that standing water?