Water Harvesting. April 2023.

 https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/2022/08/where-rocks-have-made-the-water-flow-a-water-harvesting-arizona-ranch/

 

Simply put, the Austins and their ranch hands slowed and spread the water flow in a way that allowed water to linger longer in the land’s living soils, which then grew more vegetation that enhanced the lingering further still.

There are many ways one can do this, each suited to different unique site conditions, as the new full-color editions of my books Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond show.

For more on different water harvesting strategies in the ranch/farm/rural context see:

Shifting dehydrating, degrading ephemeral water channels to better-vegetated, rehydrating, agrading channels with Bill Zeedyk-directed efforts in Altar Valley, Arizona

Harvesting Rainwater for Hikers, Wildlife, Livestock, Oases, and More

Evolutions on Mr. Phiri’s Water-Harvesting Plantation, 1995–2016

The Abundance Growing from the Water-, Soil-, and Fertility-Harvesting of Bouwas Mawara in Zimbabwe

Rudy Arredondo
President/CEO/Founder
Latino Farmers & Ranchers International, Inc. 1231-B Good Hope Road, SE
Washington, DC 20020