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018 - Using Permaculture Earthworks to Capture Rainwater Runoff and Prevent Erosion
What do you do with 350,000 gallons of rainwater runoff that enters your property with a high velocity causing erosion?
One option is to harvest that water, slow it down, and take away the erosion by constructing some permaculture earthworks.
Alden Hough of the Sky Mountain Institute joins me to talk about some earthworks that were constructed on his 7 acre property last March during a Paul Wheaton earthworks workshop.He will also talk about some of the upcoming events at the 2013 Fall San Diego Permaculture Convergence that will expand these earthworks.
Joey Delia of Evoke Hope and Tipuana…
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