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by Clem
Fri Feb 26, 2010 10:28 am
Forum: All General Questions about NSF
Topic: All ideas for contour lines!
Replies: 43
Views: 46218

duane wrote:See also http://naturalsequencefarming.com/forum ... =2587#2587 for more info re contours
Once again Duane, thanks for that link. I hadn't read that topic before.
by Clem
Thu Feb 25, 2010 8:30 pm
Forum: All General Questions about NSF
Topic: All ideas for contour lines!
Replies: 43
Views: 46218

Duane, Thanks for taking the time but I understand perfectly what a contour is and how contour lines are made. As I said in a previous post - there are a lot of definitions of a swale but the type I was referring to was the "On Contour" type with no slope or gradient ie. a contour ditch. I guess my ...
by Clem
Thu Feb 25, 2010 7:41 pm
Forum: All General Questions about NSF
Topic: A key to understanding NSF
Replies: 24
Views: 31511

Well, I thought we were still on topic as the main thrust of the topic was that we should stop rainfall runoff into the creeks etc. That topic prompted me to query just how to get started on preventing that runoff. But sure, it has now turned to the contours.
by Clem
Thu Feb 25, 2010 6:20 pm
Forum: All General Questions about NSF
Topic: A key to understanding NSF
Replies: 24
Views: 31511

Hi Julene, Thank you for all those links. I do not have Peter's books but that issue has been addressed and both books are on the way (although there maybe a shortage of the newer book - Beyond the Brink). I have not seen the video clips and look forward to viewing them. I am not in Australia at the...
by Clem
Thu Feb 25, 2010 10:33 am
Forum: All General Questions about NSF
Topic: A key to understanding NSF
Replies: 24
Views: 31511

Thanks Duane, but to be honest, I don't understand the bit about the contours. There seems to be a few definitions of what a swale is but I was intending the one where the swale is a ditch on the contour and running level and no gradient, Basically horizontal dams or weirs across the property. If th...
by Clem
Wed Feb 24, 2010 6:20 pm
Forum: All General Questions about NSF
Topic: A key to understanding NSF
Replies: 24
Views: 31511

Julene I was trying to find your post that asked a question, I think about the sea?? Anyway, the point I am wanting to make is this: 4b years ago the planet started. There was NO life at all on the land. There was just the sea and the bare land. Everything came out of the sea.....to build the lands...