Integrated Water Harvesting Earthworks, Restoring Ecosystems with Permaculture Design
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- Опубліковано 1 лис 2020
- After winning The Permaculture Institute of North America (PINA) 2018 Design Contest, Tao Orion and Abel Kloster used the $5,000 award to build a strategically important and multifunctional pond at a permaculture site near Cottage Grove, Oregon. Learn more about this and other projects at PINA at pina.in .
Climate change and industrial forestry clear-cuts on neighboring land have led to ever more serious drought conditions at this environmental education center and sustainable forest management demonstration in the middle Willamette Valley. In 2017, participants at the Center's Advanced Permaculture Practicum on Water and Forestry laid out a plan for a Keyline forestry system that included the large pond at the top of the site its managers had long dreamed of creating. They realized it would be central to their long-term plan to rehydrate the entire catchment. Detailed surveying work demonstrated that the pond could be placed to maximize gravitational pressure (head) for fire mitigation. An overflow channel would carry water across the ridge to rehydrate one of the hottest and driest parts of the site, while also providing much-needed road access into the northeastern section of the property, extending the reach of their sustainable forestry operations into this remote area.
The water harvesting earthworks are now actively rehydrating the heavily impacted watershed. The new pond has increased water retention and extended stream flow later into the dry season, while improving access to the site’s … managed forest tracts.
The project’s success … has demonstrated the dramatic impact … PINA’s carefully targeted funding can make on critical … projects in land, community, and climate regeneration.
See the full report on the project at: pina.in/2019/12/31/10850/
Film produced by Stories of Regeneration -- / storiesofregenerationf...
Project implemented by Resilience Permaculture -- www.resiliencepermaculture.com
with gratitude to:
Abel Kloster, Land Stewardship
Tao Orion, Land Stewardship
Joe Pongrantz, Forestry
Dave Hallock, Forestry
Andrew Millison, Drone Footage
Michael Godfrey, Maps
Special thanks for inspiration and mentorship to Rick Valley, Hazel (Tom Ward) and Jude Hobbs.
If you like what you see in this film, tell friends, and join or contribute to PINA. Our efforts identified this project, funded it, and filmed it. We are prepared to do much more of such essential climate-mitigating land repair. Your help can move these efforts forward.
Support PINA and our ability to fund important projects like this one by donating to the PINA Fund for Regeneration. pina.in/fund-for-regeneration/
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I wish I had more money. My dream "job" would be buying land, spending 2-3 years constructing swales and ponds and planting native trees, then leasing it out to permaculture folks
We want to do something similar as well. We want to buy desert land and then turn it green with a permaculture homestead. We, like you, are lacking money for the land. Trying to get there with our UA-cam channel.
@@mountaingardening I wish we could all contribute and buy desert land and do this to show others how this is good for the environment.
DO IT. AT ALL COSTS. SCALE. BREAK THROUGH YOUR SELF-IMPOSED LIMITATIONS.
Every place has grazing and wastelands available, we can practice whatever for free, no need to buy a parched land, If you still feel to do so, you can impact a lot of people you can invest here in my country, India, via some NGOs or individual projects. ✌🏾
What a great worthy dream. I do this for a living. I don’t buy land. Opportunities like this exist. I just have not seen any paid jobs any where. It is so easy to start if you are in the right place.
Large scale reintroduction of the beaver to the American west would be the cheapest way to increase ground water levels
There are beavers in Minnesota but unfortunately they are treated as pests. It's illegal but lots of beavers are killed by landowners.
you ever deal with a beaver before? they are good and bad. good because yes, they build damns, bad because they cause more land slides further up the water way. the way these people did it, is something the beavers don't do. Also beavers do more damage ripping up their areas than this project.
Hailing from Canada I agree! Just seen a beaver the other day on the Avon river. Great animal!
Something somewhat similar was put into place by a farmer here in the Great Southern Land. The need to keep land hydrated is a constant problem here, on the driest continent on Earth, until Peter Andrews came up with a home grown solution on his own land. What followed was government interference, disputes with neighbours and family members and, finally, being practically pushed off the property by a foreign mining company!
Despite all of this, the proof of Peter's pudding was in the eating and the aerial shots of his once farmland show he was right on the money the whole time.
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You've gotta also consider the fact that humans like to live in relatively controlled and predictable environments. Not to mention the fact that they often see that locations fit for ponds are so flat that they are often deemed suitable for housing developments. In the town that I live in, I've witnessed multiple instances where local ponds were buried for the sake of adding an expensive housing development to expand the local suburb while eliminating an "unsightly" wetland. That same city, years later is now complaining of wells running dry.
All Governments in the world should be implementing this way of living. Permaculture is the right way to restore our land and help our Planet.
WOW!
I'm studying environmental engineering, I love permaculture and in the future I want to regenerate the ecosystems like you!
Here in Italy we have beautiful landscapes but the wild vegetation is very very low (and we are reducing it every year). The water management is horrible: hydrogeological instability, desertification and massive rainfall damages are the main problems that we have.
I think that a systemic change in agricultural methods (from "traditional" agriculture to permaculture) and a sane water management like yours can bring back to life our mistreated country!
Lot of love from Italy ❤️
@Nicolo come find us!
The problem everywhere seems to be ignorance by the majority of population of the principles of Permaculture . Traditional modern agriculture is what has cobtributed to topsoil degradation The climate change denier mentality and the emphasis on large scale monoculture without thought for regeneration of degradated soil and ecosystems just for short term profit is the main issue. Unless you can persuade the vùuùast majority of people to change lifestyle abd demand powers that be then we will struggle to survive in the future
@@gategi10: Denying global warming doesn’t go hand in hand with managing water badly. I’m all for learning from the beaver and storing water naturally so forests & farms can benefit.
The lust for quick profits by raping the earth preceded the Industrial Revolution by centuries.
If you ever find your way to Utah please feel free to come test your knowledge on our land! 😅
This is really interesting. I was raised on a farm in Nebraska and my Dad was actively involved in soil and water conservation. He terraced our hills to control and retain water. There were peach trees around the bottom terrace. We had a big pond that was also a lot of fun, besides holding the water to percolate above the corn and alfalfa fields. We swam in there as kids (? Eeewww) had a little fishing boat, and in winter it was an awesome skating rink at the bottom of the hill. Many wonderful memories of all the town kids coming out to sled dow our hill, which Dad would use his farm equipment to sculpt snow into toboggan runs ending on the iced-over pond and we'd have contests who could get the farthest across the pond.
Sounds like you have/had a great dad. 🫶
I am from Nebraska, too! It would be cool to talk about your dad's farm.
Peter Andrews in Australia described how important it is to slow the water down as it moves over the surface. It makes a massive difference. I'm even mounding and channeling my little garden's surface so the water can get down much deeper. Great video!
Yes indeed... Lets rebuild the Darling with leaky weirs.
He was an amazing pioneer.
This must be done by man all over the Earth's surface. This is what we are *_for._* Thankyou - seems so inadequate.
This is a cool project, and encouraging for the future. However, DON'T STAND IN A TRENCH WITHOUT SHORING!!!!! Even the most stable-seeming trenches can collapse without warning, causing instant death or rendering it impossible to rescue the victim before asphyxiation. :( But the rest of the video is great!
I was actually worried for him in that trench. I thought this guy has a lot to share with the world still. I really hope he lives long enough to do so.
My friend lost her dad this way. Agreed.
Underrated comment right here. As someone who digs a lot of holes with excavators, my spidy senses were going bananas when he was standing in the trench.
Wow, an important tip. That would be tragic. Construction can be very dangerous.
But that's almost straight clay?
Thank you. This provides a foundation for what i hve been intuitively trying to do. Now i can move forward more intentionally.
On another note, please never show someone down in an excavation without at least warning the viewer that they can't just go doen into them without also considering the safety of the situation. The point isn't whether or not that particular situation was safe, it is that we enthusiastic amateurs may think ALL excavations are safe. They're not.
Good point. Thanks. I wonder if it is a bad indicator that some people are not aware of that type of danger.
I was not aware at all of such dangers, so I appreciate the warning comments.
Warning labels on everything you touch and do. More people die tripping when walking than in car accidents. Maybe we should each day read safe walking manuals before getting up. Personal responsibility
@@lifeliver9000 personal responsiblity is made much easier when you are educated on dangers - hence the warning labels - no one is born knowing everything and as much as people say "its just common sense" common sense still has to be learned
@@DazBochiz common sense is when standing in a hole make sure it’s unlikely to fall in on you. Safety first means every hole you stand in needs to be shored up and safety equipment in place. Two different things
Brilliant, I just bought 4 1/2 acres and was wanting to have two ponds dug, this just confirms my idea! Thank you!
Awesome!
Make sure to put in some swales on contour, too, if the property is not well-watered year-round.
@@HickoryDickory86 I will have to research that now too, thanks!!
good luck 👍🏼 i want to buy land too
check your local laws!!! had a guy put a pond in his yard with out getting the permits for it.....yea....$8,000 fine....it's great for the water shed and all, but you really need to make sure you are allowed to have it.
Wonderful video! Abel and Tao are so well spoken about why this type of pond building can regenerate our watersheds. Thank you!
This is one of the best descriptions of a pond building process I have seen yet on youtube. Fantastic content and delivery!
I would be interested to see how the land handles these ponds and what kind, if any, of erosion occurs in 5 or 10 years time. Please post videos that follow up on this work that shares your successes and failures so other people can learn from this style of habitat restoration.
Shut up
This will be good in Romania where my grandfather lives, in summer the stream near his house is dead...wich was going strong all year around years ago...
People eff everything up. It is Just what they do.
Manzanita friends! Thank you for proving that we can make a huge difference. I used to work watershed restoration in Eugene, that whole part of the Willamette is proving that water health is our health. Love this video!
Anybody else on an ecosystem spree!? Glad to see people do this, gives me hope for humanity. All we have to do now is figure out how to end wars
Wow, amazing work!!! I truly hope that more people/organizations listen to your outcomes! I have no doubt it has already done so much good for the surrounding area! You have inspired me to rethink my farm, and possibly put in a few more pounds! Thank you for everything you are doing to save the forests and the waterways!!!
Most concise, enjoyable to watch, thoughtful, interdisciplinary water harvesting video I've ever seen. Bravo! Thanks so much!
Thank you for documenting this process. Well done!
Oh my god, I am so happy I watched this video. This is exactly the information I've been wondering about for almost a year, & now I know what information I'll need to find out. Thank you guys SO MUCH!
I've been learning more and more this year about how water moves through soil and it's amazing how vegetation affects that and vice versa.
Thank you so much for showing and explaining this work. I especially appreciate the calm, mater of fact way to speak. 💚🙏
Beavers used to do this in the past.
This is an incredible film, and a much-needed technology. Thank you for sharing!
I am so doing this tomorrow! I live in Michigan and I am so anxious to start gardening!! Just got two different types of poppies! :) I can't wait! Thanks for the video.
Excellent work. I wonder how easy i would be for clear cutters to leave dams like this in place when they finish with an area
I'm so happy he stated the fact climate change. Not global warming. Two totally different events.
Thanks for the wonderful ideas. I begin my masters in September which involves watershed response to a changing climate and how we can help mitigate adverse effects, etc. Thoroughly enjoyed every second of this. I will have to look more in depth at your content!
Thank you Mr Grohl for your this brilliant video.
Great film.Very uplifting.
These are the people who should be running the show
Excellent production without politics! I've down some of this on my 13 acres, but you've inspired me to do much more!
Astonishing work. Mother Nature teaches us wonders.
Wonderful!! Just Wonderful!!! I was one if those kid's too! It broke my heart to see the destruction of our beautiful nature. It's so very inspiring to see people restore the land. Bless you all!!!
Dude I love love love the old game inspiration. Sim City 2000 was the best rampage.. that was the greatest after school special.
Thank you for the project and for making this film. Inspiring!
Great work making the planet a better place for everyone and everything.
Beautiful, Thank you for your efforts and sharing with all.
This looks fun as hell! I did the same type of project with leaves and sticks in the street gutter when I was a child.
Amazing work! Thanks for helping to save Mother Earth!
Inspiring stuff. Keep up the good work y'all!! Thank you for this!
This was really well done. The shots were beautiful! This is increased motivation for us for regenerative agriculture! Thank you for this video. Liked and subscribed!
Good video the first 5 minutes or so really chalk up the situation quite accurately
More people like you in the world. Absolutely beautiful 👌🏻✌🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️
Truly beautiful stuff. Well explained and I look forward to seeing more graphics and results from these projects
thank you, this was really educational, and makes perfect sense especially now.
Love this. Thank you for the work.
YES! THIS IS THE INFORMATION I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR A YEAR NOW! AMAZING VIDEO! THANK YOU FROM SE ASIA!
You have given me so much HOPE for our planet....keep inspiring us😉
Amazing work everybody!
This reminds me of the work that an Australian was doing to regenerate the land scape. Cool
This is sooooo amazing and it makes me happy! Good job! If we ALL did a little something it would make a big difference. i'm going to take inspiration from this.
Hell of a job. Also nice to see so many positive comments
I put in a pond about 10 years ago very much similar to this one. Aside from keeping moisture in the soil around and downstream of the pond, the wildlife abounds! Numerous amphibian species, frogs, turtles, snakes, wood ducks, blue herons, green herons, bats, martins, of course the deer use it.
I am so impressed with your work and commitment to regeneration. I lived in Eugene for over a decade and watched the land around there, Springfield and Cottage Grove get drier and drier. Heartbreaking. In those early years of my focus on stewardship I was in an “understand the damage” mindset, didn’t get the concept of active stewardship (yet). More of a look how the forestry industry is mismanaging the land, do something about it focus(I mean, come on, Douglas Fir requires so much water!) At this point I want to be the one doing something and am. I have a very small bit of property 1/2 an acre smack in the middle of town. 1/2 of that is 200-300 year old cedar and spruce on a very steep west-facing hillside… 19% slope riddled with underground springs and rated as one of the highest dangerous erosion hills in the county. Right now I’m focused on restoring microorganisms in the soil and slowly filling the outflow points of a natural trench on either edge of the property to capture, hold and slow runoff. Observing what happens this October will help me to decide where smaller downslope swales/ponds could be situated. At my age/condition it’s going to be slow going but I am committed to helping this little bit of land recover. Thank you for sharing this, it was informative and helps my thought process and planning.
Wow, incredible work. Very nerd but extremely useful. I think many countries must put some initiatives like that in action in order to avoid desertification.
The Climate is Changing and we need to make are environment more resilient.
Thank you very much for sharing such valuable information, very good content
These are exactly the videos where I really feel UA-cam should have a ❤ button as well.
Absolutely stunning work
Soil builders of the world, unite and take over!
Healthy soil makes healthy plants, healthy plants make healthy food, healthy food makes healthy people, healthy people make healthy soil
@@DavidXRae
Mo rice - mo people
Mo People - mo poo
Mo poo - mo rice
@@MrDeicide1 heell yeah brother
@@DavidXRae
It's the Cilcle of Rife
Dude, your grey clay is absolutely stunning! I had some nice blue clay in my earthworks, but I feel this grey one is the climax!
They sure our blessed!!
thank you guys for the video, amazing. :)
Great video! Where I live in Louisiana is very similar to this landscape just without all the elevation. The pine forests were clear cut and left dense clay soil that is hard to work with. I started with a little swale around my garden and it channels water through the soil by way of crawfish holes 😆
Wow, I would love this for Southern California
Great film, many thanks!
Good job! When building a ditch pour 3 quarter inch stone over it to shore it up. That's what we do in Canada.
very well made, more of this please.
I love how the clay turned it white, so different
Man that clay is very good quality
Greetings from the LooseNatural farm in Andalusia Spain where we currently construct a pond. Thank you for sharing this video
Glad it was helpful
Very informative and great video!
Great work by everyone!
this is brilliant thank you for sharing your passion
Fantastic work , I, planning similar ponds now
Very cool , inspired hit close to home . Thank you.
Bring back the beavers and let them do their thing! Great video, thanks for sharing.
beautiful! well done!
Great video, informative and mind opening
You're doing good work!
Great work , long may you continue
Ross NZ
Awesome work team!
I learned a lot here. Will check out your other videos.
Very good vid. Water needs to be treated with respect. The earth does this naturally and humans seem to naturally smite it. Water is treated like a unwanted pest scared out of town left salty and damaged. Water should be a welcome friend that we wish will stay forever:] I have learned to keep my good friend water around my property and it has been a blessing of abundance. Ty for your knowledge keep it up. One love
This is awesome info!!! I would love to figure out how to hold water on a high, flat, sandy tract of land to provide the same benefits.
good work, that's why Canucks worship beaver, stay busy
What is so special about beaver?
@@pibblesnbits they build dams, essentially doing what this guy is doing but entirely naturally
@@AutisticWombot Beautiful animals. Everything in this world has a purpose. Thank you.
😂😂😂
Yet Canucks are #1 wood producers 🤔
When I saw the fig tree at 16:14 my heart jumped. I thought that part of Oregon was a 7 or lower. 8b? Good to live by the ocean and her energy storing capability.
Similar dams are done very often in eastern Australia around Gippsland! Unfortunately it’s mostly to water cattle, but the principals are there!
Wow, really well done and informational!
Besides all of the measuring devices, that looks like fun.
I like this hydrating the land to optimise the natural landscape away from human made earlier practices that were detrimental to these optimum processes.
I wish I had more land. That looks like a lot of fun. 😀
I was watching the video and thought, "Damn, this sounds like what's happening in Oregon". Then I looked at the description. This video especially hits home after our wildfire season last year. I'm glad to see there are people thinking critically about land use.
this work is so important!!! i really hope this guy makes more videos! it’s a great educational peice and so relaxing
I certainly hope someone shares this with the OWRD. They seem to be stuck in the 19th century when it comes to managing drainages.
Dude says "check out this creek" and I'm like "bro, that a river!"
Thank you!
Great job 👍🏽
thank you for this info. it will be useful, for my plans
Glad it was helpful!
Great video, thanks!
Great work.