Swales and rain gardens are simple permaculture installations that can help us direct water away from certain areas, and toward others, for use or for storage. And, they can be beautiful. Now is the ...

How to build a swale is one of the most important things I have learnt while developing my food forest and studying PERMACULTURE with Geoff Lawton. A swale is a method of harvesting water ...

If you have watched part one of this series, you would have a good idea of what a swale is. In this video from <a href="https://www.theweedygarden.com">https://www ...

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Highway swales are ditches that collect and carry runoff during rainstorms, providing modest pollutant removal. Traditional turfgrass linings in swales are not effective in areas with shallow ...

Fernley’s historic swales could benefit from the area’s upcoming Victory Logistics Center. The historic swales are deep sand grooves created by thousands of emigrant wagons and oxen ...

The depressions, still visible today, are known as the Fernley Swales, and members of the California-Nevada Chapter of the Oregon-California Trails Association are working to preserve these ...

The issue lies on city-owned swales and residents are pushing back, saying aggressive code enforcement is targeting them for conditions they have little control over. Homeowners threatened with ...

Because in those fields at MacLennan Park at Cedar Crest are some historic ruts, or swales, made by the wheels of countless wagons traveling the Oregon Trail more than 150 years ago, Mauck said.