Whole Site Water Plans
Regenerative Functional Landscapes
Managing Water in the Landscape: Whole Site Water Plans
Clients include: Breweries, Cider Producers, Cheese-makers, Farm Systems, Smallholdings, OPD and other Ecological Developments
Our design philosophy is based upon our interpretation and application of Permaculture Design Principles and P. A. Yeomans’s Keyline System and his Scale of Permanence in the Landscape.
Managing water flows on the land, providing drought resilience and flood protection, while also enhancing biodiversity and wildlife habitat.
Natural swimming ponds can be included within these Whole Site Systems.
Site Water Reticulation Plans
Whole Site Water Reticulation Systems are designed to reticulate, or move, the water through the site in a gentle, controlled, gravity flow so that it can ‘do its duty in the landscape’. To become a positive resource for biomass production, and not a destructive, erosive force as it passes through the site.
Here, our WET Systems can be a small part of an overall plan, managing water flows such as roof and yard run-off, springs and streams. These water flows are harvested and directed to create the potential for multiple yields and resources.
This approach prevents the negative impacts of both waterlogging and of water moving too rapidly through the landscape causing erosion of the soil and loss of fertility.
Nutrient-rich water produced on the site or passing through it can be used as a resource as it is purified, leaving the site with a lower or zero nutrient load.
Functional and Productive Landscapes
Whole Site Systems can be designed to maximise food, fuel and fibre production on the land, whilst also allowing easy access to the whole site for management and harvesting. Small paddocks can be created within the design, to be managed as species-rich hay meadows and to practice mob grazing under a Regenerative Agriculture management scheme.