New gardener Donna Daniels and husband Len Gabbay grew from Austin Permaculture Guild co-director Taelor Monroe’s design and berm and swales that direct rainwater to perennial food, flowers ...

Time for a new plan. Leaning heavily on the teachings of permaculture design, most particularly the principle of ‘the problem is the solution’, we designed two three-sided swales surrounding both ...

This is the first video of a three part series on swales. With thanks to Geoff Lawton, this first video is the "INFO" part of this series, and is pulled from Geoff's Online Permaculture Design ...

Is it about sustainable architecture, aquaponics, philosophy, horticulture, design? Permaculture is all that and then some ... on everything from designing food forests to building bio-swales on the ...

A narrow side yard supports food and flowers with permaculture techniques ... the rock wall gabion will overflow into the next swale, and subsequently continue to overflow down the garden.

Permaculture - the word plays ... and water will spill from one swale to the next only during a very heavy rain. "We design for catastrophe," Ohlsen said of the oversize catchment systems.

The term "permaculture" was first coined in 1978 by Bill Mollison, the son of a fisherman from Tasmania. He described the concept as: "The conscious design ... The farm uses swales to bring ...

Rain gardens and swales aren't just beautiful landscape ... is partnering with the Permaculture Design Program Team at the Occidental Arts & Ecology, to talk about permaculture design and how ...

Related: Man leaves rat race to grow dream permaculture farm – and it’s flourishing after 3 years Swales, a chicken tractor ... about following nature’s design. It blew my mind.” ...