We Live On Planet Water
Life begins with water. Therefore, design begins with water.
71% of this planet is water. The human brain is 80% water.
Erratic and severe weather is a result of the imbalance in the hydrologic cycle of Earth.
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Today's built infrastructure quickly sheds water off. Rain lands on rooftops and parking lots, is directed into drainage channels,
and rapidly accumulates, causing flooding in the creeks and rivers on its way out to the ocean.
Paved, piped, and polluted.
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Commercial agriculture leaves vast expanses of bare, exposed soil to the mercy of wind and rain and winter weather.
No roots or leaves to stabilize the soil or to absorb the water. The result is massive soil erosion.
Metric tons of soil make the rivers run brown.
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At Earthen Arts, we design for slow absorption of water and keeping the soil where it is.
Vegetated areas store and filter water, and release it slowly and steadily from springs.
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We use techniques that clean, slow, spread, sink, and store water into the ground to recharge aquifers with clean water.
Earth shaping and planting vegetated areas allow this process to occur.
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Swales, terraces, ponds, wetlands, mulching, using fungi and masterline design
are methods we use for balancing the hydrology in the landscape.
Life begins with water. Therefore, design begins with water.
71% of this planet is water. The human brain is 80% water.
Erratic and severe weather is a result of the imbalance in the hydrologic cycle of Earth.
--- --- ---
Today's built infrastructure quickly sheds water off. Rain lands on rooftops and parking lots, is directed into drainage channels,
and rapidly accumulates, causing flooding in the creeks and rivers on its way out to the ocean.
Paved, piped, and polluted.
--- --- ---
Commercial agriculture leaves vast expanses of bare, exposed soil to the mercy of wind and rain and winter weather.
No roots or leaves to stabilize the soil or to absorb the water. The result is massive soil erosion.
Metric tons of soil make the rivers run brown.
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At Earthen Arts, we design for slow absorption of water and keeping the soil where it is.
Vegetated areas store and filter water, and release it slowly and steadily from springs.
--- --- ---
We use techniques that clean, slow, spread, sink, and store water into the ground to recharge aquifers with clean water.
Earth shaping and planting vegetated areas allow this process to occur.
--- --- ---
Swales, terraces, ponds, wetlands, mulching, using fungi and masterline design
are methods we use for balancing the hydrology in the landscape.
Regenerative Cycle
Working with Elemental Ecosystems in Montana - 2019
Rain Garden - stormwater diversion & infiltration in Triechlers, PA - 2019
Work with Elemental Ecosystems in Oregon - 2018
Pond Rebuild & Earthworks
at the Permaculture Skills Center in Sebastopol, CA. - 2016
at the Permaculture Skills Center in Sebastopol, CA. - 2016
Stream Stabilizing & Water Oxygenating in Tamaqua, PA - 2018
Silt-trap overgrowth clearing - Tamaqua, PA - 2018
Water Features in Occidental, California - 2016
Occidental Arts & Ecology Center
Zuni Bowl - an erosion prevention technique
Haycock, Pennsylvania
Petaluma, California