How to Construct a Swale in the Residential Landscape: Capturing water in the landscape is often the easiest and most efficient way to store it. Swales help us do that. Learn how to choose the best site for a swale and how to build one.:

Landscape design for healthcare facilities should consider the needs of different patients, including the elderly and behavioral health populations.

A permaculture swale is a technique for capturing and storing water in a garden. Learn how to build a swale in the home landscape.

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Confused by landscape drainage options? Here’s the difference between French drain, trench drain, and swale.

A permaculture swale is a technique that captures water for irrigation and slowing runoff. Learn what a swale is and why you might need one in your yard.

With these 11 inspiring solutions, your landscape can stay beautiful while avoiding damage from heavy rains.

When most of us think of rainwater capture, we think of rain barrels, tanks, or cisterns. That’s ok, but it presents a couple of problems—cost and space. Installing a storage system that holds a meaningful amount of water gets expensive. It would also take a proportionally large amount of

Whether you call them dry stream, creek or river beds, these rock and boulder landscape elements divert water and look lovely doing it.

Let’s start out with a basic understanding of what full scale Hugelkultur and full scale swale based systems are. Then we can jump into what they are not and why combining them can be a very bad idea.