THE HOMESTEAD FIELD MANUAL: WATER ON YOUR PLACE

Every homestead lives or dies by its water, and most folks never learn to read it until it's already washed out their crossing or run dry in a drought.Water on Your Place is the plain-spoken, hands-on guide to the one thing your land can't do without. You'll learn to read your watershed before you move a shovelful of dirt - to see where the water comes onto your place, how it crosses, and where it leaves. You'll learn to line a creek that won't quit flooding, get across it with everything from a low-water crossing to a drawbridge, catch the rain off your roof, and build a pond that holds. And you'll learn the hard-won lessons nobody puts in the manuals: why your dam washes out, why your cistern floats up out of the ground, and why the finest resource on any place is an old man drinking coffee.This isn't theory. It's one man's fifty years of reading the land, told straight, with original diagrams you can actually build from.Volume Two of The Homestead Field Manual.