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3/4 Acre Food Forest in North Texas
3/4 Acre Food Forest in North Texas
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25/11/2013
Last updated:
07/10/2015
Location:
Azle, Texas, US
Climate zone:
Warm Temperate





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Swales Filed by Melting Ice and Snow

Project: 3/4 Acre Food Forest in North Texas

Posted by Jack Spirko almost 11 years ago

We just harvested over 20,000 gallons of melt into our swales, check out this video of it.

Last week we had about 4 inches of snow and ice, mostly ice.  It totally coated the roads and shut down the city for about four days. 

Yesterday (7 days into it) we finally got a really warm day and major melt off.  This is the result 20,000 plus gallons of water gently soaked into our land vs. running down a bar ditch. 

Here is a picture of the swales two days ago. 

 

And this is the day before the video was shot during the height of the melt off.

 

 

And here is a 5 minute video the day after the last photo was taken.

 

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