Today we visited David Arnold's property in Violet Town. It was great to see a different permaculture property in action. A real contrast to other places, as it was flat, and very orderly with rows and rows of trees on the way into the main building.
He has an incredible diversity of fruit and fodder trees, and a dam that made me really envious! As well as the property tour, we did a session on water, and spend some time calculating how much water we could catch from our roof, and also catch in our soils. I was amazed to find I could store about 10 olympic swimming pools of water in my soil - safe from evaporation and available to the plants. Time to start planning my soil improvement and keyline ripping for next spring!
You can see David's vid's at www.youtube.com/murrnong.
On the subject of water a mini rant - I was dismayed and annoyed to see this heading in today's age: "Water worries temporary" Claims that Melbourne will not need new rainwater tanks or greywater systems in homes . HELLO PEOPLE!!!! We need to catch and store!!!!!!!!! That way you wouldn't have to take water from regional victoria and pipe it away from agricultural land and down to the city. And you could spend the money for the desalination plant on public transport. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
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Grrrr indeed!! Just don't get me started on the pipeline!!!
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