New Approaches to Stream "Restoration"

So it has been a year since I started mucking about and I have learned a great deal. I have spent uncounted hours (not a very scientific approach but this is art too) working on the site and learning what works and what doesn't where moving water is concerned.

From the very beginning I wanted to see what I could do with materials present on site and my own manpower-- no tools or heavy equipment-- just manipulation of the site itself with well-protected hands and feet. With climate change predic… Continue

On Saturday April 12th, students and volunteers from the St. Timothy's School in Greenspring Valley, Maryland came and helped to clean up the park site in which I have been constructing my water-based garden designs. 32 students planted 15 dogwoods and willows, picked up 5… Continue

In the beginning of the 20th century, Viktor Schauberger of Austria came out of the woods and into his own as a force to be reckoned with both literally and figuratively. Schauberger was from a family of forest wardens, who for centuries kept watch over the holdings of various royals in the mountain regions of Austria. Rather than attend formal school, he chose to work in the woods, learning about nature thru first-hand observation. Alpine stream systems were a focus. Commissioned by a prince to… Continue

I have recently taken stewardship of a neighborhood stream section in Baltimore… Continue