At Last, More Pasture Improvements
It’s been the best part of five years since the weather conditions were right for running the Keyline Plough over…
Category: Water
The most important thing that we have any real ability to influence is water.
In our farm plan, if we can get the water right, everything else in our design will follow.
These pages illustrate the design ideas and installation trials and tribulations that have gone into “getting the water right”.
Keyline Tilling
One of our most successful techniques for improving the soil has been Keyline Tilling, as proposed by P. A. Yeomans…
Windmill
The drinking water for our house is stored in a tank up the hill behind the house (10m above the…
Water pipe burial
Finally, we are starting to bury the water pipe over the property. Here’s Colin the Swiss WWOOFer wielding the trenching…
Too much pressure!
Here’s what happens when you have more pressure than a valve can handle. Note the distorted threads where the two…