In the last post was found that air movement is an important factor that affect the microclimate in the forest garden and that now we will investigate Air mixing a little closer. In many ways it is desirable to have so still air as possible. A small gust of wind can blow away the warm air and destroy the effect of both reflective surfaces and […]
Both the supra-regional and regional climate, we need to relate to when we design our forest gardens. Still, microclimate differ much from the general conditions. Through active observation, we can learn much about the local microclimate. The knowledge we thus get up can help us create site-specific solutions, beware […]
Working with the microclimate, ie. climate on a scale from a few inches to one hectare, belongs to one of the more important tasks in the creation of a forest garden. We have great potential to influence climate on the scale, but how much our effort, so determined the basic conditions of the microclimate in large part by the regional and […]
There are a number of variations on Swales used to refine the basic design. One possibility is to make Swalen slightly sloping, 1-4% [1] to bring water from wet areas to humid areas, as we have done in Putt Myra Forest Garden to smooth the water supply between different areas, see image nedan. […]
The last post was about what Swales is and what role they could play in a woodland garden design. In this post I thought, describe how to proceed when you want to dimension and construct a swale. Design The design of swales are primarily dependent on the slope of the landscape, soil infiltration capacity and […]
There are some techniques that are strongly associated with Permaculture. Swales, as the Swedish possibly called for severing ditches, is one of these. One of Europe's most renowned permakulturlärare and writers, Patrick Whitefield, recently published a post on his blog, in which he argued that swales are overestimated in a climate that Britain. His point was […]
