Does anyone here have any experience building swales on steep hills?
We want to plant a home fruit and nut orchard and make it water self-reliant and would like to talk to anyone else who may have already built a system of water collection. We are considering collecting rain water by building paths with a guttering system that lead to underground mini-storage wells on the upperside of swales holding trees in mulch pits. Has anyone done this? Especially on a hill? (We live in Lyttelton).
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