To Swale or Terrace or Both and Why, There are many ways to repair the small water cycles in our local landscapes. For me, as a designer primarily working in the restoration of broad landscapes, I choose to use mostly two techniques: the well-known swale documented in Bill Mollison’s global gardener series, and the lesser-known terrace, adapted to become a water conduit. The terrace performs the same functions as a swale, but for me, it allows greater flexibility for the user

Retrofitting farm dams and vastly increase wildlife habitat and productive edge function, while accessing the material/earth to repair the dam wall on-site and/or increase the freeboard of the dam wall for its safety and the safety of your neighbours below the dam.