After 642mm of rain this winter, our water retention space is finally refilled. Water is life, water is love!

We have completed reforesting the valley by creating rip lines along the contour lines with a bulldozer and are now focusing on populating the waterlines with vegetation to protect and enhance the ecosystem.

In fall 2023, participants of the Water Retention Landscape course constructed swales using a tractor and an excavator, planted them, and created a small seasonal pond at the valley's bottom to enhance water retention and sustainability.

Despite low water levels, water retention area supports vital needs.

As part of our water-retention landscape building course, we explained to the participants different ways to build checkdams and then practically built them together.

We have afforested the south-facing slope next to the zero forest

How to build a campground for refugees integrating regenerative water management?

We built a large dam at the southern end of Tamera's property, quite close to the watershed divide.

On December 31st, 2009, Lake 1 reached capacity.

In 2007, the construction of the Water Retention Landscape started, inspired and supported by the Austrian permaculture specialist Sepp Holzer.