Earthworks

So here are some recent pictures of what's been happening on the water-harvesting earthworks front over the last month...

Marking out swales using an A-frame and Bunyip level...


Our hired boys digging (we're developing a great working relationship with them and they do an excellent job)...


Here they are, looking like rap stars ;-)...


Here is the freshly-dug top driveway orchard swale (the driveway orchard was created in the space gained by moving the football field 17 metres west)


and from another angle...


and the one below it, which is now full-sized, planted out with fruit trees (jackfruit and mangos), maize, beans, sweet potato, comfrey and hopefully tomorrow vetiver grass...


See later photos of them holding water here.