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Category: pond

  • PONDS

    Ponds are a vital part of every landscape, even small simple backyard or garden ponds can add vital resources for enjoyment and functionality. Ponds can be a place for dragonfly larvae, fish,frogs, toads, snakes, and many others as well. Managing a pond properly will determine how well it serves you. When planned well ponds need…

  • Picture update 2021

    Well, I have no excuses for what is actually an incomplete coverage of all that has been going on this past year, but I did take sporadic photos and will try and fill in the actual progressions of the various projects. OK, I think that’s enough for one night. Obviously there was a lot more…

  • Picture Update 06,2021

  • Random Photos

  • Photo update 11/14 /02020 (pt 1)

    While the rain complicated the koi pond, washing lots of mud into water that had finally started to clear, the rains filled and clarified the upper “catfish” pond. It’s especially true that larger ponds require less maintenance. Note that these ponds are mostly unavoidable when doing erosion control . A pond lined with sedimentary rock…

  • Summertime

    and the living is easy. Catfish jumping and the Kale is high. The grapes aren’t quite at the point of shielding the glass enough or cooling the air enough, so I put up the sheet again this year to keep the sun out of the greenhouse, maybe next year with a better trellis and more…

  • The mystery fish killer

  • March picture updates

  • Dams , 12/29/2018, Primer and Update

    The red lines are general property boundaries, tan/yellow lines represent earthworks dams and swales, the blue areas are potential water stopped and held by the Earthworks according to general topography. These are the dams and ponds I’ll be referring to here. The general topography is going downhill from lower right to upper left, and the…

  • More about Machinery and Permaculture

    Some might not call it appropriate technology,  but machinery may not be all bad when thinking about sustainability. The real test is the overall increased output over the life of the system. It is easy to think that a dam will last 1000 years and therefore becomes worth the immense amount of energy it takes…