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Resilient Landscapes For A Prosperous Future
We design, implement and steward broad acre landscapes towards ecological function, beauty and abundance in service of people, place and planet.
We design, implement and steward broad acre landscapes towards ecological function, beauty and abundance in service of people, place and planet.
Food Forest Water Harvesting Terraces, Swales, and Armored Drains - 1 Year Later!
This is a video walk-through of a passive water harvesting and erosion control earthworks project recorded approximately 1 year after design and implementation by 7th Generation Design in California's Central Coast region. A video detailing that initial design and installation can be seen here: ruclips.net/video/pE8nvz1rJXg/видео.htmlsi=gI0kLpzALeVmEQFV
The system includes four terraces, a tractor access road, two swales, and a series of six media luna flow concentrators and flow spreaders to transit water down the steepest slopes in a non-erosive fashion. This system lays the groundwork for future food forest plantings.
Passive Water Harvesting Landscapes - Design & Implementation
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The system includes four terraces, a tractor access road, two swales, and a series of six media luna flow concentrators and flow spreaders to transit water down the steepest slopes in a non-erosive fashion. This system lays the groundwork for future food forest plantings.
Passive Water Harvesting Landscapes - Design & Implementation
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Fall Season Air Pruning Bed Update
Просмотров 859Год назад
Early fall season update on the air pruning beds - filled with mostly black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia), some mimosa (Albizia julibrissin), thornless honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos inermis), chestnuts (Castanea mollissima) and a few other odds and ends. These trees are being grown as early-succession pioneer species for dryland agroforestry systems in Central CA and other mediterranean c...
Fabled Oaks Farm Passive Water Harvesting Earthworks - First Rain
Просмотров 2,3 тыс.Год назад
This short video contains a few clips shot by our clients during a break in the rains on 12/14/2021. The earthworks were installed in February of 2021. This is the first significant rainfall the earthworks have seen. The passive water harvesting earthworks walkthrough video and daily implementation vlog can be viewed below: - FOF Passive Water Harvesting Earthworks Walkthrough Video: ruclips.ne...
Automated Spring Water Collection And Pumping To Storage Tanks
Просмотров 13 тыс.Год назад
This video details the spring water collection and pumping system installed on a rural property in Big Sur, CA. The system collects water from the spring in a 300 gallon holding tank. A 3/4 horsepower jet pump with buffering from a pressure tank pumps the water from the holding tank up to the main storage tanks 200' higher and 500' away from the spring site. The system self-regulates using a pu...
Staircase Of Headcuts - Why You Want To Stop Headcut Erosion As Soon As Possible
Просмотров 1,7 тыс.Год назад
This is a brief clip that provides an excellent example of how damaging headcutting can be in brittle Mediterranean and dryland landscapes. Headcuts move uphill, and are the primary means by which incised drainages form. This leads to historic floodplains being disconnected from historically normal water flows, dehydration of the neighboring valley bottom meadows, and a conversion of grassy veg...
Food Forest Terracing & Passive Water Harvesting Earthworks
Просмотров 26 тыс.2 года назад
This video details a passive water harvesting and erosion control earthworks project designed and implemented by 7th Generation Design in California's Central Coast region. The design included the formation of four terraces, a tractor access road, two swales, and a series of six media luna flow concentrators and flow spreaders to transit water down the steepest slopes in a non-erosive fashion. ...
Spring Seep Retrofit With Flexible Collection Wall
Просмотров 39 тыс.2 года назад
This video documents a retrofit we performed on an old spring site using a 25' long flexible collection wall to harvest water from a large seep area. The project took 3 days to install. Thanks to S&C for inviting us out to their home to put this system in! Also a huge gratitude to @Engineer775 for all of his excellent educational content on springs, spring boxes and spring development - well wo...
Vetiver Grass Q&A From The Field
Просмотров 4,8 тыс.3 года назад
Brief Q&A filmed in the field during a recent vetiver grass installation in Southern California. In it we talk about using vetiver grass for erosion control applications, why its so good at this, and the many advantages that come from choosing a biological solution vs. a constructed one. For a general introduction to vetiver grass and all of its uses, read out blog article Vetiver Grass 101: Re...
100% DC Off Grid Yurts Solar Electrical System
Просмотров 3,3 тыс.3 года назад
A walkthrough video of a 100% DC off-grid solar system designed and installed for two yurts and a shared appliance shed / bathhouse in January of 2021. Interested in building resilient systems on your slice of paradise? Request your copy of Resilient Property Design Essentials - our free 40 page e-book containing 8 critically important design principles, strategies and techniques to make your p...
How To Create Dynamic Implementation Roadmaps For Permaculture Project Management
Просмотров 4193 года назад
This video details how we use Trello paired with the BigPicture plug in to create dynamic implementation roadmaps for our Level 2 Whole Site Design permaculture designs. Trello by itself is a very flexible and useful project / team management tool, which we use internally within 7th Generation Design to handle our "in business" processes. We also create project-specific Trello boards that conta...
Why Rolling Dips Are Awesome! (Drive Through Demo)
Просмотров 1,6 тыс.3 года назад
This video details why rolling dips are so good at handling low-clearance vehicles - like trucks with trailers - and are an excellent, low-cost, low-maintenance drainage treatment for draining low standard rural roads. Learn more about the site requirements and specifications for installing a rolling dip: thesovereignhomestead.com/water-drainage-elements/#rolling-dips Request your copy of Resil...
Tapping A Seep - Spring Water Collection System Install
Просмотров 156 тыс.3 года назад
This video details the planning and installation of a spring water collection system installed in Huasna Valley just outside Arroyo Grande, CA. The water was emerging from a fragile, broad sand-seam seep, necessitating a unique collection and filter package design. The system is now gathering 2,300 gallons per day of high quality water for the multi-generational family stewarding the ranch. A h...
Fabled Oaks Farm Passive Water Harvesting Earthworks - Daily Video Journal
Просмотров 3,3 тыс.3 года назад
This video documents the installation of a multi-tiered swale system at Fabled Oaks Farm in Temecula, CA capable of infiltrating between 750,000 to 1.5 million gallons of run-off and run-on precipitation during an average rain year of 12" - water that formerly used to be lost before it had a chance to sink into the soils, ran by the property on the roadway, or caused erosion damage and siltatio...
Fabled Oaks Farm - Passive Water Harvesting Earthworks Walkthrough
Просмотров 16 тыс.3 года назад
Join us for a guided tour of the mainframe passive water harvesting swale system installed at Fabled Oaks Farm as part of their larger whole site plan to create a regenerative homestead and family farm. The earthworks detailed in this video include ~ 1,000 feet of swale lines, two rolling dips, numerous armored transition points and spillways and a roadside pick up drain. This system, during an...
Champion style Natural Draft Top Lit UpDraft Biochar Cookstove
Просмотров 5194 года назад
Biochar Cookstove build from scavenged materials, based on the Champion-style cookstove design by Paul S. Anderson. DIY plans for this style of biochar cookstove are available at: www.drtlud.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Construction-Plans-2009-03-11.pdf A small-scale Combined Heat And Biochar (CHAB) device, this stove produces approximately .75 - 1 gallon of charcoal with each complete burn c...
Air Pruning Bed First Harvest - Air Pruning Works!
Просмотров 4,7 тыс.4 года назад
Air Pruning Bed First Harvest - Air Pruning Works!
Low-Standard Road Remodel - Rolling Dips & Rundowns
Просмотров 1,1 тыс.4 года назад
Low-Standard Road Remodel - Rolling Dips & Rundowns
Incised Drainage Erosion Rehabilitation - Headcut Repair with Zuni Bowls
Просмотров 11 тыс.4 года назад
Incised Drainage Erosion Rehabilitation - Headcut Repair with Zuni Bowls
Type 1 Drainage Error - Double Fetch Compound Erosion
Просмотров 4584 года назад
Type 1 Drainage Error - Double Fetch Compound Erosion
Human Nature School Cinematic Overflight
Просмотров 2244 года назад
Human Nature School Cinematic Overflight
DIY Air Prune Beds - Grow Hundreds Of Healthy Trees In A Tiny Space
Просмотров 20 тыс.5 лет назад
DIY Air Prune Beds - Grow Hundreds Of Healthy Trees In A Tiny Space
Automated Off-Grid Solar Irrigation System
Просмотров 15 тыс.5 лет назад
Automated Off-Grid Solar Irrigation System
Biological Retaining Wall - Vetiver On Contour
Просмотров 5 тыс.5 лет назад
Biological Retaining Wall - Vetiver On Contour
DIY Off Grid Solar Powered Irrigation System
Просмотров 8 тыс.6 лет назад
DIY Off Grid Solar Powered Irrigation System
How To Wire A Galcon DC6S Irrigation Controller
Просмотров 4,2 тыс.6 лет назад
How To Wire A Galcon DC6S Irrigation Controller
How To Program A Galcon Irrigation Timer For Mist Propagation Systems
Просмотров 16 тыс.6 лет назад
How To Program A Galcon Irrigation Timer For Mist Propagation Systems
Vetiver Grass Grows to 4 Feet In 6 Weeks!
Просмотров 17 тыс.6 лет назад
Vetiver Grass Grows to 4 Feet In 6 Weeks!
Automated Microgreen Bottom Watering System - DIY
Просмотров 97 тыс.7 лет назад
Automated Microgreen Bottom Watering System - DIY
Vetiver Grass for Steep Slope Stabilization
Просмотров 17 тыс.7 лет назад
Vetiver Grass for Steep Slope Stabilization
Essential oils are volatile, but my understanding is that most of the essential oil in Vetiver are in the roots.
Yes please update!
Epic! Great install :)
I have like 3 rocks on my land
Very informative! Question though, some of your videos show the shock port attached to the main filter inside the retension wall, but other diagrams show the shock port attached to the over flow pipe outside the wall. Is one design more effective?
needed this video bad! thanks from the eastern pyrenees!
Nice. However, I'm not sure why you are not showing your water source. If you are truly off grid, you should show if you have a shallow well, rain water collector, or something else?
Nice work
Crazy to have a source of pristine water then run it through tons of plastic introducing all kinds of microplastic pollution and other chemicals
0,5 lt/h?
Bet that bamboo ran out of control
Have you totally killed your spring yet?
Clear as mud.........
Great update! It’s very cool to see the original vid then this one.
Bro you should probably call the FBI if you have that many terrorists on your land
What is the horse power of the lump
Hello we are new to the channel and liked and subscribed. Really like your I dare solution. It's almost like a bog filter for a pond . And you can put some perennial all year round vegetation flowers because the roots inside the rocks like an aquaponics system. as the water seeps through the roots will collect the water and collect the bacteria and help fither and clean the water before it gets into your collection box and return pipes to your settlement tank to your holding tanks
puuuuuuppy.
Is there any concern of water eroding away the base of the rolling dips from your experience?
huge resource, thanks.
I really want to see these when its raining.
Do you normally grab poison oak bushes like that? Ive learned a lot from just a couple if your video's, thank you!
Who makes the best DC appliances?
Wow, this is great. I have been looking for such a long time for a video like this so glad I found you here. I’ll be in contact.
Nice job, perfect planting technique and good Q&A - I hope you get overwhelmed by demand - An excellent solution for prevention and repair of landslippage
I like the design but I don't completely understand it. Sad because my land is very hilly and already has some terraces. I wish I understood better how you planned out the sections that feed the terraces. we get an average of 58 inches of rain. I found it funny that you use a Spanish nomenclature instead of saying "half moons", just makes me giggle. Loved the video all in all.
Thanks for your comment! We'd be happy to provide some design consulting if you'd like help with your property. As far as the media lunas - we didn't come up with that name, they are commonly referred to as that in the erosion control world, not sure where it came from. Just search for "media luna erosion control" and you'll find plenty about 'em!
When I see the thumbnail, I thought it was just one of the boring slide shows. I'm glad you're showing on it's place.
That's a great system. Thanks for sharing it.
Does chicken wire small enough to protect from chipmunk?
What soil do you use for air pruned boxes?
American HEROES. Patriots and good citizens of Earth want and deserve clean water! God bless.
What are you mean about healing them after you dig seedlings out?
If you are not planting in the ground and there is a risk of the roots freezing, the trees are bundled together and placed into pots which can be mulched around, or placed into holes/trenches in the ground and covered with loose soil and mulch.
Any thoughts on adding more shruby support species (nitrogen fixers or biomass accumulators)? I get the sense that establishing some fast shade and stratified root systems will really get that soil going. Those slopes between terraces would be a fantastic place to grow your chop and drops.
Thanks for the update, I recognized the place right away by the slope. Next year is going to be awesome! Good for you and the owners.
This could be a good video, if we could hear what he's talking about. I think we're supposed hear the narrator and not the cameraman.
The “cameraman” was likely just as involved in the design and implementation of the project as the “narrator”.
Why do you choose to grow the invasive persian silk tree?
The ground seems so bare to me. E.g. the terrace where the irrigation system components are. Was a ground cover seeded? Native grass plugs? Miyawaki shrubbery tight spacing to get the soil to jump start? What made you/them decide to leave it bare? What is growing in the spillway? Would it be good to chop/drop in the bare areas? Good description of the black locust. This part was helpful. Are there any concerns that the root systems may take over that of the fruit tree? My understanding is that, especially when coppiced, they colonize. When you mention "another video," please link to it in-frame. Less "looking good" and more details. good for jumping in at 1:51 and giving details about what was growing, why, time frame, inputs, etc. Pretend your viewer can't see anything and has no context - describe from there. I can't see the details and have no idea what is good/bad. Also, I can't believe it's all good. Isn't there anything you would have done differently? The client has concerns about anything?
Given that this is in California, they likely didn’t irrigate the cover crops much or at all, only the trees and bushes that are part of the food forest, which is why it seems so patchy. In the original video, they said they sowed cover crops under the straw. Most of this will be at the desire/whim of the owner, not the designer of the earthworks. The “other video” is linked in the description. This is an earthworks channel, the answers to your other questions are not their line of expertise, look elsewhere for the permaculture reasoning. This was an earthworks project for a client who wanted to build a permaculture food forest, the fact that they gave a bunch of info about what the client did with respect to the permaculture part of the equation is just bonus content.
Do you have a follow up video? Would love to see how the slope is doing.
I would love to see it, too!
Want to see it in action
ruclips.net/video/1mPCKlqJho4/видео.html
Nice to see this.
I'm concerned I might get problems with mice & shrews. I think it's a minimum of 6mm mesh holes to exclude small rodents. Have you had any trouble with them? Are there small rodents on your site?
how far apart is each swale from the next one?
THANK YOU!!! 😆🤯 This gave me the perfect guidance. I'm on it
Thank you so much for this! Would you be able to give a ballpark of what the client paid for that?
Which model galcon is this? How long will it work with just the batteries?
DC-12S, and at typical usage several months with just the batteries
This is awesome. Way to lead by example guys. We need projects like this X 1,000 and then we will really start making an impact on the land.
Thanks for that
Unsupported warping non-UV protected PVC pipe on a sliding slope? What am I missing here where any of that is a good idea? Particularly if there's also freezing involved. Please elucidate us.
OUTSTANDING!! Tutorial Education!! I have the exact same scenario at my farm in the woods per your video. This has been extremely helpful!!! Thank you!!!
Outstanding videos. I live in SE Ohio, Apalacia, rolling hills at the end push of the ice age where South Eastern OH, Western PA and WV all three states come together in the same spot. This terrain is very hilly. A 50 year old plus well on my farm is dying. I have found that I have a large number of healthy underground springs (running 7/24 with good flow rates) that I am in the process of slowly developing. Your videos on Spring Development and flow of water with erosion considerations have been excellent and extremely helpful and useful!! What college did you go too to gain this level of education is my first question? Secondly in your videos you mention things like Silk fabric, Certain vinyld/plastic wall head for collection boxes etc. Do you have listed a material list some where on the most common items needed for developing natural springs in the woods? Again, thank you for the videos!!! So far they have been extremely extreme helpful and all of your construction theories make perfect sense!!!
Hi Barry, Thank you for your kinds words, we're glad the videos have been helpful. Definitely didn't learn any of this in college - just self study for what we're passionate about - namely healing fractured landscapes and restoring them to healthy hydrological function to whatever degree is feasible in this case. For the springs, we have used the pre-cast springbox sold by Carolina Water Tanks: www.carolinawatertank.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=SB For the collection wall, you can buy them pre-made and drilled, but I would encourage you to cut your own from a potable quality HDPE 55 gallon drum - the middle 14 or so inches will make you a 72" long by 14" high collection wall, much cheaper than purchasing one pre-drilled and cut, and also you'll have more options, as no two spring set ups are alike. If you need a barrage/collection wall longer than 72", we've used bamboo rhizome barrier in the past to good effect: lewisbamboo.com/products/bamboo-barrier-100-36 As far as the silk, I might have mispoke on that - I'm not exactly sure what I may have referred to, but we do use geotextile fabric to wrap various parts of the collection system - from an entire 55 gallon drum "sump" type collection system, to just the intake pipes themselves. It is also very useful in capping the spring heads to keep finer material from entering the collection/filter package. Depending on how much you need, something simple like this might do: www.homedepot.com/p/BECKETT-6-ft-x-12-ft-Underlayment-for-Pond-Liners-UL612HD/100001948 or you can get much larger quantities like this: www.siltmanagementsupplies.com/geotex-matting-8-oz-sz-15-x-300-non-woven.html I hope that helps - if you have any other questions feel free to reach out - I've recently moved to Tennessee and am now operating under the name Sovereign Homestead Design - casey@thesovereignhomestead.com if you have further questions. Wes is still running 7th Gen on the west coast. Cheers!