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Water Harvesting Winter Preparation: Small Scale Earthworks and Soil Cover Management to Prevent Ero
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Waking Waters: Guiding Your Land in Stewardship Through Responsibly Harvesting Water
Dates
3rd session: Water Harvesting Winter Preparation: Small Scale Earthworks and Soil Cover Management to Prevent Erosion and Increase Productivity
Saturday, October 3, 2009, 10 am - 5pm
Cost: $90 per workshop, $80 for Conexions members. Sign up for all three for $250.
Location
Location will vary per session. The first session will be held in San Gregorio where participants will get hands-on experience designing and installing a roof water catchment system.
Description
Peninsula Permaculture, a project of Conexions, and Waking Water Designs: Ecological Design, Implementation, and Maintenance, presents Waking Waters: Guiding Your Land in Stewardship Through Responsibly Harvesting Water.
Over the course of time, urbanization and poor land management practices on rural properties have led to waterways that are more prone to flooding, streams with unstable morphologies, dropping groundwater levels, and poorer water quality. Designing and installing a comprehensive water harvesting system on your property is one way to reverse the impacts of urbanization on your watershed.
This series, when taken in its entirety, exposes you to all aspects of a comprehensive water harvesting system for your property, allowing you to guide your land in stewardship as part of a widespread watershed restoration effort.
Session Three:
Are you ready for the winter rains? What impact will your property have on the quality of your local watershed? Do you want to see the salmon return to our watersheds?
Through managing your property with water harvesting in mind you can do your part in maintaining or restoring your watershed as a productive and vibrant ecosystem.
In this workshop we will cover how to use several small-scale earthworks as well as effective soil cover management to prevent erosion, recharge groundwater supplies, increase water quality of local streams, and provide opportunities for increasing the productivity of your land.
About the Instructor
Andy Webster received a BS in Hydrology from UC Santa Barbara. Since graduation, he has worked for UC Santa Barbara coordinating habitat restoration and storm water biofiltration projects, earned his first Permaculture Design Certificate with the Permaculture Institute of Northern California, received another PDC while studying for two years with the Regenerative Design and Nature Awareness Program through the Regenerative Design Institute, and worked designing, installing, and maintaining various permaculture projects throughout San Mateo County. Andy now runs Waking Water Designs, an Ecological Design, Implementation and Maintenance company.