Well we're well overdue for an update here, with water flowing everywhere and over 100 fruit and nut trees in the ground! Here's a few pictures from last week to get the ball rolling:
Here's the silt trap and goose pond shortly after the tap was attached to the pipe coming through the goose pond wall - it's filling up fast!
Here's the above mentioned tap. Don't ask for the story about how we got it on...
The flow leaving the top flow this time of year - really responds to a bit of rain uphill, what!
And here are a few of the bottom swale-dam system:
Here's our first plughole - a system where we pull a plug to convert an infiltration swale into a diversion drain, letting us either moisten or dry out the soil below at will.
And here's the tennis court batter with a variety of native grasses, grevillias, oranges and olives planted out.
Monday, August 20, 2007
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