The large scale farm ditches shown here might successfully influence the design of smaller scale ditches.
http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/indiana/howwework/art30290.html

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http://thinkingardens.co.uk/Susan%20Cohan%20Nine%20Questions%202%20Duncan%20Brine.html

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“Eden Reconsidered”
An Appreciation of the Brine Garden
by Marilyn Bethany

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Erik Kiviat’s Hudsonia is an important resource for environmental research and education in the Hudson Valley.
Get an eyeful of his perspective here.
http://www.townofdover.us/HudsoniaPresentation.pdf

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The Elizabethan Snail Mount

The viewing mount at the Garden of Cosmic Speculation (see previous post) is of particularly illustrious ancestry, being a type favored by the Elizabethans who conferred upon it a typically emblematic meaning.
Sir Francis Bacon’s garden (c. 1620) had ‘in the very middle, a fair mount, with three ascents, and alleys, enough for [...]

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