@@Juliobrem Congratulations! Permaculture is key to restoring landscapes especially here in the northern drylands where overgrazing by sheep and goats have stripped the landscape bare. . My work is much more limited, focusing on home gardens in urban areas. It looks like we are in for another major drought like the 2011through 2013 one that, reportedly, killedi.1.7 million "ganado" (to include goats). I would like to hear about your work in Sonora.
@@brooksanderson2599 I really have not started yet. I’ve just found about permaculture a few months ago through a video of India, and having this droughts in Sonora im urged to start a campaign.
Wonderful! Thanks so much for sharing. My dream is to create more sustainable communities and development projects in the desert Southwest of the United States. Using natural methods, like these, will help with progress.
Would love to know the factors to consider when building these ponds, I guess just a sediment basin design. Secondly, the type of trees to plant around the water ponds and swales. I think research and replanting the native Creek plants is a good starting point.
This is so amazing , I wish this could also happen in Pakistan (specially Karachi ) but people amd government are not willing , it could only happen of foreigners can bring their programs and force the government
Why do you give it a try? If only in your small arena? or the small property of a friend or neighbor? If people see the green results...that is, the land literally turning greener...they will try it. If the people lead, the leaders will follow. I think this is our only hope.
Zia Parker we live in a small town , it's crowded with homes and none of them have any type of garden or lawn . People don't even like planting , they just won't to extend their homes to make them more spacious and dont leave Any space for planting . Also people are so uneducated that they think if tree is planted near a house , it's roots will go deeper and damage the structure on which the whole house is standing and then their house will come down . Because of lack of planting it haven't really rain since years .
Buddy I can feel your pain as I live in Here Lahore...once a time there was so much greenry in our hometown but now its declining rapidly.... By same insane minds and their illogical baseless lame excuses we have become master in destroying the Mother nature....
Well lahore is now the pollution capital.but the thing is we have to do it ourselves this bystander thing is not going to work waiting for someone else to come and do our duty
Have you heard of Wanagri Mathai? Look her up. Also if you won’t help yourself no one will be willing to help. Don’t wait for someone to change the ways of people be the change
Yes - giving back more than we're are taking....learn how to retain water in the soil (a dirt with a balanced soil life organisms) when it falls, store water in the small dams (ponds), swales, keyline system - depends on context. In small areas (urban) just keeping a ground covered with plants, leaf litter, compost and store rainwater in the tanks. It's about creating ecosystems for all living (not just for humans) and where is water there is life....and it's soooo much fun! Thank you for sharing :-) All the best!
Hello. Please allow me to say that a swale is not the best solution and is not adapted to all sites. At some point in your video you show a keyline pattern but you don't mention it. Beware of "swale it all" solutions...
In the oh-so-brief time afforded the typical modern attention span, and thus the optimal UA-cam video length, there are many things that don't get said! But when someone actually starts to study this subject, the important distinctions, such as when is keyline more appropriate than swales, become quite apparent.
Oh, and I must add that many times swales ARE the best solution. Especially here in Ecuador where earth-works generally have to happen by hand, because of the topography. Keyline is appropriate when machinery can be used to build the water retention canals, and when machinery will be used to maintain and improve the land. Do you agree?
Hi Zia. I agree that on limited time, one cannot talk about everything, let in depth... From what I saw in the past 5 years, swales are presented (just like hugel beds and spiral gardens) as "permaculture superstar tools". It is easy to make swales and they can be adapted in some cases, I do agree. Now, the thing with swales is that they are not the best (and by best I mean cost-effective) way to retain water in the landscape. Keyline subsoiling helps retain water for a fraction of the cost. Keyline is possible with animal traction. Finally, swales scar beautiful landscapes and make it difficult to move a cart, or a vehicle, or people, or animals without the risk of hurting oneself. I'll try to find and send you the comparative study between swales and keyline: I was a swale lover and it helped me change my mind. Cheers and keep up the great work !
I saw D. Doughtery's video and as much as I respect so much of what he has done, he is presenting a very fundamentalist view here!! And for you to say point blank " a swale is not the best solution" without further info gathering........!!&^%$#!!! This is NOT Permaculture at it's best!!! Doughtery's video and your comments are 100% irrelevant on our site. One, it is too steep for animal traction. Two, who is going to try to find or have a blacksmith made a Yeoman's plow for our one acre? On all of the consultation work I have done in Ecuador over the last 6 years, animal traction is not feasible due to the slope, and I have never seen a Yeoman's plow in Ecuador. Now, on the coastal planes here, it would be possible, and Doughtery's silly math calculations would still not be considering the myriad of variables that he didn't account for! I thought that with the Permaculture principles, we have learned to give guidlines, never say never, and heavily rely on the words "it depends".
I have only a small garden, but I am digging a swale in my front yard currently and plan a swale for the back yard as well. I have already planted 4 fruit trees and the front swale will water 3 of them when it is completed. Even in a suburban setting this is possible. We almost ran out of water in 2019 in cape Town, South Africa. If everyone does this it will solve a lot of problems.
watching this with interist . this was shot in 2016. it is now 2019. how about an update . i perfer the word water retention ditches rather than swales .
Looking to do this in central texas we’re we have extreme drought conditions one part of the year and then extreme rains the other part. This video gave me some other ideas. Thanks!
You understand that the secret to greening the land is to harvest the water first! Very rare! I have a problem and maybe you can give me some solutions. Here in California , we have a hillside fire problem and shrinking water aquifer problem. I want to harvest rainfall on the hills, but some of these hills are 45% steep or very rocky. I think that if there is more moisture on the hillsides, there will be fewer fires. How do I do this without causing a landslide or mudslides. We currently have a lot of mudslides in the last week. Can I chisel plow the hill, build shallow trenches, use sand bags with a stake behind them? In California , we are required to have a Ground Water Sustainability Plan. The Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency is currently working on how to keep our groundwater use on an even keel. Have any ideas?
There's a place called Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. It's a big gold mining town. It used to have lots of trees but they cut them all down in the 19th century to feed the stamping mills. Now all of its water has to be pumped over 300 miles from Perth.
i plan to live off the grid, hopefully soon, in hill country or higher. Water was my first concern, waste management, creating tiering landscapes with retaining walls that have piers to sturdy it. i had thought about doing something of the order that this video speaks of, before i saw this video. You should research 'no till farming'. The soil has a life cycle of its own, tilling the soil disrupts it and can harm it. There are composting system for human waste. But you should be careful if reusing that compost on crops that you will be consumed by humans. i would greatly urge you to reheat it for doing so.
Joking me ...that are terrasses old copper mines before jezus born ..made by giants ...like rice terrasses in asia . Gigantic big..that shape of tersses already there..earth id not a globe ..thats why
The Paani Foundation are doing great things (of similar type) in India with amazing results. They have lots of very informative video's that give practical advice on all matters & structures.
Correcto. Famous movie actors set 45 day targets with prizes, but eventually win/loss all villages are happy ultimately harvesting great benefits. Their living standards improved vastly. Timbektu is another project started much earlier elsewhere in india..
Hi Jan, This is Zia responding, this is our video. My response to your comment is simply that "it's all relative". The point is that capturing rainwater and shaping the land so it can sink back into the earth is a win-win---for the land and the people.With Water Retention Landscaping, we are mimicing the conditions of a mature ecosystem. A mature forest, or a mature grassland will absorb the water and return it to the natural rain cycle. So this is a stop-gap method until the ecosystem can recover.
Great, some discussion is getting generated. OK, Jan, I'll answer your question a little more directly. The 90 cm is relevant in the context that it is spoken. It is not a matter of simply how much rain falls, but how much water can we capture in the land given the annual average rainfall. Our estimate of 300,000 liters annually on one acre is also just a reference point. The concept of giving the water back to the land is the point. By reshaping the land in a way that lets the water penetrate , it feeds the water cycle and allows us to extend the rainy season. Back to our particular situation, if we got our 90 cm spread out evenly throughout the year, it would suffice, but we have very heavy rain in the rainy season, and 3-4 months of almost no rain. These methods also help stabilize the slope, and when planted with Vetiver, can minimize earthquake damage. It also captures nutrients so they can penetrate into the ground with the water.
Yes it is, of course. But if there is no way for that water to be absorbed, then it will take away the loose topsoil and erode the land into a dry desert. Then rainfall will gradually decrease, starting a dry cycle of drought. It is bad to cut down forest in most areas, unless we are talking about Scotland or some other heavy rain environment. The solution for every place depends upon the total landscape of that place.
It scratched the surface - more for people that are new. Check out Geoff Lawton (they use some of his footage) and also the NREGA project of the Indian government. There is a pdf too, ignore the housekeeping of handling of funding, wages etc, and skip to the practical chapters.
That makes wonder if lake below... wouldn't it start to dry out over time? Because now it's not getting the some amount of water it use to. I am just asking. I am not criticizing.
Yes i saw a short video on a swale that the US government Dug at least 80 years ago, in the Arizona desert, the presenter of the video was walking through the dry landscape where their was shrubs and grass that was very sparse and far apart, he walked a little further across the dry swale bed to the other side into a clearing of trees and beautiful lush meadow of green grass..... It was as if you had stepped from the desert into an oasis like the garden of Eden!!.... I don't know why the government stopped that program so long ago, perhaps they run out of money during World war 2 because of the war..... It's too bad, if they had only continued, Arizona today wouldn't be desert anymore.
nuclear reactors could easily desalinate ocean water. .depletion of our groundwater is absolutely horrifying. thank you. the myawaki aforestation method talked about in "Drawdown" by Paul Hawken seems incredibly promising to me.
Los seres humanos solemos hacer difíciles las cosas fáciles, Perdernos en soluciones costosas y complicadas cuando existen formas fáciles, económicas y naturales para resolver los problemas.
Zia Parker here, the producer of this video: A new video clip is now available but not that easy to find! The title is RehydrateReforest Vilcabamba valley & Beyond. It is listed on a menu on the left, and features 4 local Ecuadoreans who carry knowledge of these "earth rehydration" techniques. Two of them are from local indigenous groups that once used these methods, and they are actively working to restore their people's interpretation of this ancestral knowledge. I hope to do more on this as time moves on. This is a very fascinating part of the world, in Southern Ecuador, the economy is still based on small family farms, and there is a treasure trove in the local knowledge.
Excellent ideas and brilliant project to work out on empty, baren lands...your video not just make my day,but it have given me the courage to take the steps for my own lawn....Thank you very much, I am really much inspired...but as my one native told you...in Pakistan,unfortunately people are very ignorant and too dumb to understand the real importance of trees and plants and they are not going to change their attitude towards this greatest blessing of god on them....instead of planting new ones they are busy in cutting down the old trees...My heart bleeds on this nonsense tragedous behaviour....But trust me ....I will try my best to change that by adding atleast my part of effort.....
Taking one step at a time, and creating models, that is really all we can do! But I have found that when I begin, others follow! Zia--the video's producer
Hi Allan, Yep, we are. We are starting a ḧome'n school native tree nursery program, puppet shows in the schools, public service project (obligatory) in the high schools, which will have the option to do tree planting, and planning for the coming rainy season to plant more and more every year. You too! I hope you are planting trees, wherever you are!
I am a Permaculture consultant and designer. I am qualified to teach the Permaculture Design Certificate Course. I have given lectures and workshops at universities, but have no formal affiliation with any, by choice.
I think it should be clear that the 900 ml is in reference to the amount of rainwater we are collecting. The point is that significant stores of water can be collected from rain. Even in arid or hyper-arid zones, rainwater collection is good to do!
@@ziaparker2461 I know but 900 ml of rain a year is really a lot, I think it's great water is being brought back into the soil. I was just commenting on the fact that it is ONLY 900ml, whilst that being a high amount
? there is no reference to 9 cm of rain in this anywhere in this video! And actually, Ecuador encompasses a very wide range of ecosystems, much wider than you mention.
Thanks for your kind words. NOw is the time to do ALL we can do to help this precious planet tilt back into balance with respect through all of our actions, through Permaculture, through our consumer choices, our speech patterns. Thank you for your part!
I'm confused. You state "this video is longer". Am I missing something? At 7:39 that makes it a very short video. I checked your web site and I see no longer video. For what you claim in your website, you don't seem to have much to back it up. Not trying to be annoying, just wondering if there is a longer video somewhere. I turned a 1/3 acre yard into a food forest with lots of birds, in the middle of a small city of lawns. In a place where temperature can go down to -45 F. Just trying to get more ideas to increase the ground water. I already collect from the rain.
HI, this is Zia, this is my video. I see how my words were confusing for you. Wish I could see how to edit them. Publishing on UA-cam is new to me. Your project sounds great. Why don't you publish IT on youtube so people can see what you did?
What I meant by "longer" is that we made this 7 minute video after making the 4 minute version for crowd funding, which has a guideline of 3 minute max. Longer videos generally don't do well for crowd funding. Our video didn't do well either! LOL Anyway, this 7 min.+ video does explain more about the techniques of WRL (water retention landscaping).
Microphonix Virtual Studio - One person can´t change the climate. Agree. BUT ONE person can save water, one person can plant a tree, one person can make a desert or a forest. One person can make the difference. ;-) Although its also sadly true that one person can seat on his bottom and wait for "God" to do something. In fact we witness this on a daily basis... :-( The option is in your hands, not God´s.
I'm including here some links to some of the consultation reports on our website, where you will find a description and photos which make a clear distinction between contour swales and keyline filtration canals, and which are appropriate for what type of applications, as well as some of the challenges of this locale. Primarily, extreme slope. vidaverde.info/vilcabamba-valley-reforestation-advances/ (link to full report is embedded here) vidaverde.info/water-retention-landscaping-otavalo-quechua-community/ vidaverde.info/wp-content/uploads/Sumak-Yaku-proposal.WordPress.pdf See pg 7 & 8 for my understanding of the difference between contour canals (swales) and keyline canals and when one or the other is appropriate.
Excellent! I´m planning to impliment some of these techniques here in the Northern Mexican Desert !Gracias!
Brooks Anderson en sonora?? Ocupas voluntarios?
Good job
@@brooksanderson2599 hi im from Sonora. And I’m interested in permaculture. Thanks
@@Juliobrem Congratulations! Permaculture is key to restoring landscapes especially here in the northern drylands where overgrazing by sheep and goats have stripped the landscape bare. . My work is much more limited, focusing on home gardens in urban areas.
It looks like we are in for another major drought like the 2011through 2013 one that, reportedly, killedi.1.7 million "ganado" (to include goats). I would like to hear about your work in Sonora.
@@brooksanderson2599 I really have not started yet. I’ve just found about permaculture a few months ago through a video of India, and having this droughts in Sonora im urged to start a campaign.
Wonderful! Thanks so much for sharing. My dream is to create more sustainable communities and development projects in the desert Southwest of the United States. Using natural methods, like these, will help with progress.
Thank you from Austin. A good water system can save about 150k liters to 200k liters a year on my house lot. Had to subscribe. Thanks again.
Would love to know the factors to consider when building these ponds, I guess just a sediment basin design.
Secondly, the type of trees to plant around the water ponds and swales. I think research and replanting the native Creek plants is a good starting point.
This is so amazing , I wish this could also happen in Pakistan (specially Karachi ) but people amd government are not willing , it could only happen of foreigners can bring their programs and force the government
Why do you give it a try? If only in your small arena? or the small property of a friend or neighbor? If people see the green results...that is, the land literally turning greener...they will try it. If the people lead, the leaders will follow. I think this is our only hope.
Zia Parker we live in a small town , it's crowded with homes and none of them have any type of garden or lawn . People don't even like planting , they just won't to extend their homes to make them more spacious and dont leave Any space for planting . Also people are so uneducated that they think if tree is planted near a house , it's roots will go deeper and damage the structure on which the whole house is standing and then their house will come down . Because of lack of planting it haven't really rain since years .
Buddy I can feel your pain as I live in Here Lahore...once a time there was so much greenry in our hometown but now its declining rapidly....
By same insane minds and their illogical baseless lame excuses we have become master in destroying the Mother nature....
Well lahore is now the pollution capital.but the thing is we have to do it ourselves this bystander thing is not going to work waiting for someone else to come and do our duty
Have you heard of Wanagri Mathai? Look her up. Also if you won’t help yourself no one will be willing to help. Don’t wait for someone to change the ways of people be the change
I love what she says about giving water back to the earth,most of the dense cloud use to be under ground.
That’s awesome. May God continue to bless you
Yes - giving back more than we're are taking....learn how to retain water in the soil (a dirt with a balanced soil life organisms) when it falls, store water in the small dams (ponds), swales, keyline system - depends on context. In small areas (urban) just keeping a ground covered with plants, leaf litter, compost and store rainwater in the tanks. It's about creating ecosystems for all living (not just for humans) and where is water there is life....and it's soooo much fun! Thank you for sharing :-) All the best!
Great video. I have tons of rains... need to just make some swales... thanks for the inspiration.
Simple engineering solution. But who is in power? Not engineers, that's for sure.
Hello. Please allow me to say that a swale is not the best solution and is not adapted to all sites. At some point in your video you show a keyline pattern but you don't mention it. Beware of "swale it all" solutions...
In the oh-so-brief time afforded the typical modern attention span, and thus the optimal UA-cam video length, there are many things that don't get said! But when someone actually starts to study this subject, the important distinctions, such as when is keyline more appropriate than swales, become quite apparent.
Oh, and I must add that many times swales ARE the best solution. Especially here in Ecuador where earth-works generally have to happen by hand, because of the topography. Keyline is appropriate when machinery can be used to build the water retention canals, and when machinery will be used to maintain and improve the land. Do you agree?
Hi Zia. I agree that on limited time, one cannot talk about everything, let in depth... From what I saw in the past 5 years, swales are presented (just like hugel beds and spiral gardens) as "permaculture superstar tools". It is easy to make swales and they can be adapted in some cases, I do agree. Now, the thing with swales is that they are not the best (and by best I mean cost-effective) way to retain water in the landscape. Keyline subsoiling helps retain water for a fraction of the cost. Keyline is possible with animal traction. Finally, swales scar beautiful landscapes and make it difficult to move a cart, or a vehicle, or people, or animals without the risk of hurting oneself. I'll try to find and send you the comparative study between swales and keyline: I was a swale lover and it helped me change my mind. Cheers and keep up the great work !
Here is the link to the comparison... ua-cam.com/video/7DypNWNWYNk/v-deo.html
I saw D. Doughtery's video and as much as I respect so much of what he has done, he is presenting a very fundamentalist view here!! And for you to say point blank " a swale is not the best solution" without further info gathering........!!&^%$#!!! This is NOT Permaculture at it's best!!! Doughtery's video and your comments are 100% irrelevant on our site. One, it is too steep for animal traction. Two, who is going to try to find or have a blacksmith made a Yeoman's plow for our one acre? On all of the consultation work I have done in Ecuador over the last 6 years, animal traction is not feasible due to the slope, and I have never seen a Yeoman's plow in Ecuador. Now, on the coastal planes here, it would be possible, and Doughtery's silly math calculations would still not be considering the myriad of variables that he didn't account for! I thought that with the Permaculture principles, we have learned to give guidlines, never say never, and heavily rely on the words "it depends".
I have only a small garden, but I am digging a swale in my front yard currently and plan a swale for the back yard as well. I have already planted 4 fruit trees and the front swale will water 3 of them when it is completed. Even in a suburban setting this is possible. We almost ran out of water in 2019 in cape Town, South Africa. If everyone does this it will solve a lot of problems.
Great video, thank you for sharing. It's enlightening to see how these processes work with clear diagrams.
G'day,
I Hope you are well, thank you for sharing this information. Peace to you both 🌞
watching this with interist . this was shot in 2016. it is now 2019. how about an update . i perfer the word water retention ditches rather than swales .
Excellent. Actually your success makes your FARM large, gigantic, beautiful, giving. Thank you... Jennifer. Decatur GA. USA
Looking to do this in central texas we’re we have extreme drought conditions one part of the year and then extreme rains the other part. This video gave me some other ideas. Thanks!
You understand that the secret to greening the land is to harvest the water first! Very rare! I have a problem and maybe you can give me some solutions. Here in California , we have a hillside fire problem and shrinking water aquifer problem. I want to harvest rainfall on the hills, but some of these hills are 45% steep or very rocky. I think that if there is more moisture on the hillsides, there will be fewer fires. How do I do this without causing a landslide or mudslides. We currently have a lot of mudslides in the last week. Can I chisel plow the hill, build shallow trenches, use sand bags with a stake behind them? In California , we are required to have a Ground Water Sustainability Plan. The Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency is currently working on how to keep our groundwater use on an even keel. Have any ideas?
There's a place called Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. It's a big gold mining town. It used to have lots of trees but they cut them all down in the 19th century to feed the stamping mills.
Now all of its water has to be pumped over 300 miles from Perth.
Fun fact: Their names, both of them, mean "Light". Zia ist the arabic word for Light and Rosh(a)ni is the Urdu (persian) word for it.
i plan to live off the grid, hopefully soon, in hill country or higher. Water was my first concern, waste management, creating tiering landscapes with retaining walls that have piers to sturdy it.
i had thought about doing something of the order that this video speaks of, before i saw this video. You should research 'no till farming'. The soil has a life cycle of its own, tilling the soil disrupts it and can harm it.
There are composting system for human waste. But you should be careful if reusing that compost on crops that you will be consumed by humans. i would greatly urge you to reheat it for doing so.
Joking me ...that are terrasses old copper mines before jezus born ..made by giants ...like rice terrasses in asia . Gigantic big..that shape of tersses already there..earth id not a globe ..thats why
It is amazing how common sense and low technology can transform the landscape.
Don't worry about
Swales.Just plant living swales
Lake mead in the USA is going down way past what it needs to be
Are check dams possible on steep slope? My property is about 30 degrees
I think too much water on a steep hillside if saved in water catchment systems might
We hope everyone can do something to save the EARTH don't be too late
The Paani Foundation are doing great things (of similar type) in India with amazing results. They have lots of very informative video's that give practical advice on all matters & structures.
Thanks Bob, I'll have a look.
Correcto.
Famous movie actors set 45 day targets with prizes, but eventually win/loss all villages are happy ultimately harvesting great benefits. Their living standards improved vastly.
Timbektu is another project started much earlier elsewhere in india..
I need your help...???
how can I help you? Zia , the video's producer
God bless you
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Very cool I like videos like this
Isn't 90 cm of rainfall per year quite a lot?
about 36 inches, enough to support a rain forest.
Hi Jan, This is Zia responding, this is our video. My response to your comment is simply that "it's all relative". The point is that capturing rainwater and shaping the land so it can sink back into the earth is a win-win---for the land and the people.With Water Retention Landscaping, we are mimicing the conditions of a mature ecosystem. A mature forest, or a mature grassland will absorb the water and return it to the natural rain cycle. So this is a stop-gap method until the ecosystem can recover.
From what I understand, without trees, the water runs off, taking the soil with it and causing flooding, stripping the land bare.
Great, some discussion is getting generated. OK, Jan, I'll answer your question a little more directly. The 90 cm is relevant in the context that it is spoken. It is not a matter of simply how much rain falls, but how much water can we capture in the land given the annual average rainfall. Our estimate of 300,000 liters annually on one acre is also just a reference point. The concept of giving the water back to the land is the point. By reshaping the land in a way that lets the water penetrate , it feeds the water cycle and allows us to extend the rainy season.
Back to our particular situation, if we got our 90 cm spread out evenly throughout the year, it would suffice, but we have very heavy rain in the rainy season, and 3-4 months of almost no rain. These methods also help stabilize the slope, and when planted with Vetiver, can minimize earthquake damage. It also captures nutrients so they can penetrate into the ground with the water.
Yes it is, of course. But if there is no way for that water to be absorbed, then it will take away the loose topsoil and erode the land into a dry desert. Then rainfall will gradually decrease, starting a dry cycle of drought. It is bad to cut down forest in most areas, unless we are talking about Scotland or some other heavy rain environment. The solution for every place depends upon the total landscape of that place.
Succes well done!
thanks guys looks great,
Vallerani system , Italy
Thank you guys 👽
Ok ..🙏🙏🙏thank you....
Oh so much bull shit !!!
This is the best video on this topic that I have seen, and I've seen quite a few. I watched it twice so far. I have shared it with some friends.
Thanks so much for your comment Lorne, it made my day. This is my video. Zia
It scratched the surface - more for people that are new. Check out Geoff Lawton (they use some of his footage) and also the NREGA project of the Indian government. There is a pdf too, ignore the housekeeping of handling of funding, wages etc, and skip to the practical chapters.
That makes wonder if lake below... wouldn't it start to dry out over time? Because now it's not getting the some amount of water it use to. I am just asking. I am not criticizing.
thank you!
Yes i saw a short video on a swale that the US government Dug at least 80 years ago, in the Arizona desert, the presenter of the video was walking through the dry landscape where their was shrubs and grass that was very sparse and far apart, he walked a little further across the dry swale bed to the other side into a clearing of trees and beautiful lush meadow of green grass..... It was as if you had stepped from the desert into an oasis like the garden of Eden!!.... I don't know why the government stopped that program so long ago, perhaps they run out of money during World war 2 because of the war..... It's too bad, if they had only continued, Arizona today wouldn't be desert anymore.
nuclear reactors could easily desalinate ocean water. .depletion of our groundwater is absolutely horrifying. thank you. the myawaki aforestation method talked about in "Drawdown" by Paul Hawken seems incredibly promising to me.
Yeah trees bring about stability in the climate I've always known that.
Los seres humanos solemos hacer difíciles las cosas fáciles,
Perdernos en soluciones costosas y complicadas cuando existen formas fáciles, económicas y naturales para resolver los problemas.
Thank you!
Dutch water walks, it never runs, thats why its so green in the Netherlands and we have so many tulips.
Beautiful.
Zia Parker here, the producer of this video: A new video clip is now available but not that easy to find! The title is RehydrateReforest Vilcabamba valley & Beyond. It is listed on a menu on the left, and features 4 local Ecuadoreans who carry knowledge of these "earth rehydration" techniques. Two of them are from local indigenous groups that once used these methods, and they are actively working to restore their people's interpretation of this ancestral knowledge. I hope to do more on this as time moves on. This is a very fascinating part of the world, in Southern Ecuador, the economy is still based on small family farms, and there is a treasure trove in the local knowledge.
Thank you
Beautiful
Good video
Well done
What you do is what we are supposed to do , make heaven, here on Earth.
This just changed my life 💚
Excellent ideas and brilliant project to work out on empty, baren lands...your video not just make my day,but it have given me the courage to take the steps for my own lawn....Thank you very much, I am really much inspired...but as my one native told you...in Pakistan,unfortunately people are very ignorant and too dumb to understand the real importance of trees and plants and they are not going to change their attitude towards this greatest blessing of god on them....instead of planting new ones they are busy in cutting down the old trees...My heart bleeds on this nonsense tragedous behaviour....But trust me ....I will try my best to change that by adding atleast my part of effort.....
Taking one step at a time, and creating models, that is really all we can do! But I have found that when I begin, others follow! Zia--the video's producer
please plant more trees.
Hi Allan, Yep, we are. We are starting a ḧome'n school native tree nursery program, puppet shows in the schools, public service project (obligatory) in the high schools, which will have the option to do tree planting, and planning for the coming rainy season to plant more and more every year. You too! I hope you are planting trees, wherever you are!
DIE HIPPIES!
Are you a professor ?
I am a Permaculture consultant and designer. I am qualified to teach the Permaculture Design Certificate Course. I have given lectures and workshops at universities, but have no formal affiliation with any, by choice.
LOL 'only' 900ml of rain a year?
I think it should be clear that the 900 ml is in reference to the amount of rainwater we are collecting. The point is that significant stores of water can be collected from rain. Even in arid or hyper-arid zones, rainwater collection is good to do!
@@ziaparker2461 I know but 900 ml of rain a year is really a lot, I think it's great water is being brought back into the soil. I was just commenting on the fact that it is ONLY 900ml, whilst that being a high amount
This needs to be done everywhere.
wtf since when in ecuador there is onli 9 cm of rain it is from 200 cm in the north and at least 20 cm south
? there is no reference to 9 cm of rain in this anywhere in this video! And actually, Ecuador encompasses a very wide range of ecosystems, much wider than you mention.
You are heroes succeeding the reforestation by using the principle of a water cycle . The savor of the desertification in the earth. 🍒🍒
Thanks for your comment. I love the Earth! Let's all keep doing everything we can to protect the rainwater.
Thanks for your kind words. NOw is the time to do ALL we can do to help this precious planet tilt back into balance with respect through all of our actions, through Permaculture, through our consumer choices, our speech patterns. Thank you for your part!
Thanks for this video
I'm confused. You state "this video is longer". Am I missing something? At 7:39 that makes it a very short video. I checked your web site and I see no longer video. For what you claim in your website, you don't seem to have much to back it up. Not trying to be annoying, just wondering if there is a longer video somewhere. I turned a 1/3 acre yard into a food forest with lots of birds, in the middle of a small city of lawns. In a place where temperature can go down to -45 F. Just trying to get more ideas to increase the ground water. I already collect from the rain.
HI, this is Zia, this is my video. I see how my words were confusing for you. Wish I could see how to edit them. Publishing on UA-cam is new to me. Your project sounds great. Why don't you publish IT on youtube so people can see what you did?
What I meant by "longer" is that we made this 7 minute video after making the 4 minute version for crowd funding, which has a guideline of 3 minute max. Longer videos generally don't do well for crowd funding. Our video didn't do well either! LOL Anyway, this 7 min.+ video does explain more about the techniques of WRL (water retention landscaping).
與自然做朋友,互利共生
Be friends with nature, mutual benefit
HOla Biochar Liu, perhaps, can you comment in English or Spanish?
I need your help...???
This is Zia, the video's producer. Write me about your conditions at ziaparker@zoho.com, maybe I can help.
I am sorry, you can't change anything, concerning climate. The only person that can, is God.
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- One person can´t change the climate. Agree.
BUT ONE person can save water, one person can plant a tree, one person can make a desert or a forest. One person can make the difference. ;-)
Although its also sadly true that one person can seat on his bottom and wait for "God" to do something. In fact we witness this on a daily basis... :-(
The option is in your hands, not God´s.
Each every one person is responsible for natural resources
Great video
Nice
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Hola Rafiq, Gracias!!
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Well done
How do you do it on flat land?
@@ForTheEraOfLove wow, an answer a year later, forgot what the video was about too.
Coud I come help u and work for you?
Hi, We do have a volunteer program. Check it out at www.vidaverde.info
We have a volunteer program, check it out on our website: www.vidaverde.info
:)
I'm including here some links to some of the consultation reports on our website, where you will find a description and photos which make a clear distinction between contour swales and keyline filtration canals, and which are appropriate for what type of applications, as well as some of the challenges of this locale. Primarily, extreme slope. vidaverde.info/vilcabamba-valley-reforestation-advances/ (link to full report is embedded here) vidaverde.info/water-retention-landscaping-otavalo-quechua-community/ vidaverde.info/wp-content/uploads/Sumak-Yaku-proposal.WordPress.pdf See pg 7 & 8 for my understanding of the difference between contour canals (swales) and keyline canals and when one or the other is appropriate.