Funky Portlandia Ecovillage is Giant Rainwater Sponge!

Kailash Ecovillage in Portland Oregon has designed their land around absorbing all of the rain that falls on their 2 acres. By shaping the land and directing all of the runoff into water harvesting swales, as well as using all of the kitchen and humanure compost to create massively fertile and spongy soil, the hundreds of thousands of gallons of rain that falls on this ecovillage is soaked into the ground to recharge groundwater supplies.

Kailash founder, Ole Ersson, takes us on a tour of their systems in this video.

This video is part of the Rainwater Harvesting Online Course produced by Oregon State University:
www.pace.oregonstate.edu/rainwater

Kailash Ecovillage website:
https://www.kailashecovillage.org/

Andrew Millison’s links:
https://www.andrewmillison.com/
https://permaculturedesign.oregonstate.edu/

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