Today we revisit a topic I covered with the awesome Paul Wheaton on a past episode of TSP. Paul actually just put out one of the best compilations of photographs and illustrations I have ever seen on hugelkultur which inspired this episode.

We are going to go deeper than that today though. We are going to talk about multiple concepts with water, I am going to tell those of you in states where they say you can’t capture and store rain water how to do it anyway.

I am going to discuss the water crisis we can’t see and how permaculture provides a solution for it. I will tell you about millions of acres of lakes that you never see and how they can teach us exactly how to provide water to our plants even in the driest areas with little to no irrigation.

Join me today as we discuss…

If water is everywhere how can there be a shortage of it

What at the two largest types of lakes that we never see

Who waters the forest, who waters the prairies

My hugelkultur project so far

The rain garden

Swales and swale style barriers

Self watering gardens – irrigation with maximum efficiency

Terracing and how I feel they differ from swales

The role of poly culture

Selection of hardy varieties

Growing from seed, especially trees

The Groasis system

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