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Here’s a look at insights from experienced CEA growers during the “From Setbacks to Success” session hosted at Cultivate’25.
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TL;dr: Looking for any general writing or teaching that explores storing sinking and spreading this kind of water.
So. Small ponds have been created at the top of my property (west facing slope, 10 narrow acres) but the overflow soon sinks under my pasture in a very rocky place…surfaces again at a “springhole” in the backyard under a pear tree…then goes underground again and exits via a hillside culvert and into a road and then creek.
Walking from that exit point up to the spillway/berm at the ponds, with altitude change from around 3000-3100’, you will see multiple small (8×8”) to medium (2×2’) holes in my pastures.
I’m losing the farm one hole at a time, and also when the hurricane caused extreme flooding here in the mountains, my high farm basement (near the bottom of the property at 3000’) was still flooded.
I want to prevent soil loss, control erosion generally, create capacity for more contained water, and build in lowered risk of extreme flooding events esp at the home itself.
I am currently hoping to add bamboo into the lowest part of the spillway area to retain more water there before it disappears underground, partly to build up swale/berm areas…and considering digging another pond just uphill from them, in the immediate spillway zone, (if so, hoping for irrigation and potentially recreation uses).
I’m open to any suggestions about that – and even less sure how to manage the 6×4 spring hole area in zone 1 (backyard). It would be nice to keep it as a lovely water feature and the ability to soak in that cold spring water is amazing, but since the flooding it has filled in and is just a little spot of water that runs for only a few feet above ground – but is clearly doing damage to the area around it, including sucking big holes out of the soil of a shade garden and orchard area.
Any suggestions are welcome.
Picture notes: Due east is at top of photo. Lt blue circles: springfed ponds and backyard springhole Lt blue lines: very low flow aboveground below ponds (line on south side of photo is totally separate creek) Lt blue arrow: where water exits farm, to creek Dk blue line: assumed path underground Red circles: potential pond/bamboo sites Yellow circle: canning shed (built into ground; stays flooded)
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As in last August’s offering, I’ve decided to highlight a few plants from a single family, well-represented with summer blooming species in the Botanical Garden. Last year, it was the sunflower family, Asteraceae. While I did not nearly cover the breadth and depth of that group (I may fill in those gaps in some […]
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Members of The Garden Center Group presented Retailers Choice Awards for 15 products to 14 companies during Cultivate’25 earlier this month in Columbus, OH.
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Hi all, I’m a total noob and trying to learn in the footsteps of PA Yeoman, Darren Dogherty, Richard Perkins et al on permaculture farmscape design. I have a 10 acre plot that is completely vacant. I’m trying to make sure I am getting the foundations correct. I’ve traced onto my topo map what I see as the ridgelines (orange), valleys (blue), key points (yellow dots), and key lines (black). Red outlines my parcel boundary so of course I know there are some things not on my property.
Hoping on some feedback before I get into mapping out the rest of the irrigation zone and then access roads.
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A recent crop hearing held by the House Agriculture Committee addressed the Plant Biostimulant Act of 2025.
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The next stop during my Bay Area Garden Extravaganza in late March (see here and here for previous garden visits that day) was Marcia Donahue’s Berkeley garden. This was my third visit to Marcia’s, the last was in December of 2018. She’s made many changes since then, the first one I noticed was the ceramic beaded necklace she added to the gorgeous eucalyptus in the hellstrip. It’s perfect and proudly announces “Marcia lives here!” to anyone who knows her work.
Hellstrip loquat with lots of fruit.
Looking back at the eucalyptus.
And behold…the new parking garden and a most stunning Brugmansia.
I should clarify, “parking garden” is what I’m calling it, not what Marcia called it. I’m not sure she had a name for this area.
Those round bits…
There were many of them. If I am remembering correctly (and I may not be, I really should make notes), Marcia bought the lot and had them shipped home from Japan.
I don’t think Marcia new exactly what the stone shapes were in their previous life. But she recognizes fabulous when she sees it.
I have no idea which tree fern this is (I wanna guess Sphaeropteris cooperi) but I love it… look at those huge fiddle heads!
Walking back into the shady area beyond the parking space you discover this…
The wood shown on the right is a gate that opens into the back garden. I won’t go thru it here, but we’ll revisit it in my last post from the garden, on Friday.
Sculptural chain links and Marcia’s bamboo segments.
Moving past the Brugmansia now, along the sidewalk and the narrow front garden to the south-ish side-garden.
Where there’s a ginormous bromeliad and more of Marcia’s work…
There are changes on this side of the garden as well, although I’d be hard-pressed to point out exactly what they are.
I think when I first visited all of the bowling ball shapes on the staircase were actual bowling balls.
Not anymore.
Pow! Flower power.
Bowling ball mulch.
And thru the gate we go…
Papaya!
I find every inch of this garden so very inspiring…
Marcia’s plant choices and her design sense aligned with her artistic craft create a place like no other.
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Editor Brian Sparks talks about his love of lists and give three examples of listening and learning from across the industry.
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