Keyline® in the AR Sandbox #1: Contour Lines and Water Flow

Welcome to this 7-part video series that is excerpted from Oregon State University's Online Permaculture Design Certificate Course:
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The Keyline® Plan is a method of land design for soil and water conservation developed by Australian farmer and engineer P.A. Yeomans in the 1950's, and practiced widely throughout Australia ever since. My training in this design system came from Keyline® design's modern day emissary, Darren J. Doherty of the Regrarians (www.regrarians.org). This series is my best attempt to present a simple introduction to the design system, beginning with the very basics: understanding landforms to determine the potentials that each landscape possesses.
There are a lot more design layers to this system then what is presented in this 7-part series, so please treat this as an introduction, and not a comprehensive explanation. I also refer to other videos within this series that are part of Oregon State's Online Permaculture Design Certificate Course and are not publically available, so if you want more depth in this topic and others, please visit our course offerings:
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  • @amythinks
    @amythinks Жыл бұрын

    A great example of the YT algorithm failing. This video should have millions of views.

  • @AMPProf

    @AMPProf

    5 ай бұрын

  • @grun5848
    @grun58483 жыл бұрын

    I dont need to know any of this but this mans voice and teaching form is so relaxing and satisfactory I can just listen to him all day

  • @amillison

    @amillison

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Grun and I'm thinking of advertising my lessons as a sleep aid :-)

  • @DJ-uk5mm

    @DJ-uk5mm

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@amillison lol. I could learn from your material whilst sleeping ….. by the way, your lessons have been really useful for me I’ve been searching for some land for sometime and And the knowledge gained from watching your videos has helped informed my land choices. Thank you

  • @helio2k
    @helio2k4 жыл бұрын

    Damn Andrew! It took me so long to discover your yt channel. I just wanted to thank you. Your videos with OSU introduced me to permaculture. I remember it vividly when i first saw you drawing with colerful pencils and your awesome calm but inspiring voice. On monday i start on a small biological farm and i never had a more positive outlook on my life (i hope it stays that way). Thank you so much for showing me the way to my true calling.

  • @amillison

    @amillison

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's great to hear that you are headed in a good direction.

  • @friendsofthegerund7693

    @friendsofthegerund7693

    2 жыл бұрын

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  • @cjjt66
    @cjjt663 жыл бұрын

    Really well done!!! I am a map librarian, and I try to explain these concepts all the time. You nailed it! Great job!!

  • @dantescanline
    @dantescanline Жыл бұрын

    i am just blown away by your channel. you're a fantastic educator and i'm glad you're doing videos on youtube for all of us

  • @fab9db
    @fab9db3 жыл бұрын

    I was really struggling reading flat contour maps, so this 3D visual is massively helpful!

  • @CanadianFarmGirl1
    @CanadianFarmGirl12 жыл бұрын

    I just found your channel yesterday and have been watching non stop!! Its awesome to watch while harvesting and weeding gardens!

  • @plantloversclubnv
    @plantloversclubnv11 ай бұрын

    Thank you for offering this free of charge

  • @phalmantha141
    @phalmantha1414 жыл бұрын

    This is amazing and beautifully presented. Thanks so much for sharing.

  • @Zksmash91
    @Zksmash912 жыл бұрын

    This man really makin it rain droplets of knowledge

  • @kimnenninger7226
    @kimnenninger72262 жыл бұрын

    Great video. He does a great job of explaining this material.

  • @ProfBoggs
    @ProfBoggs Жыл бұрын

    Excellent presentation. I especially like how you summarize while noting the exceptions.

  • @monicacruz4407
    @monicacruz44073 жыл бұрын

    Really useful and great teaching tool! 🙏

  • @AMPProf
    @AMPProf5 ай бұрын

    JUST USED THIS CONCEPT!!!HOPING IT WORKS Arizona mist capturing is an art

  • @alanmcrae8594
    @alanmcrae85944 жыл бұрын

    Excellent instruction method using AR Sandbox to help permaculture students to visualize their landscape canvas in 3D and understand how to apply Keyline Planning to their project! The other tool necessary to accurately model a real world landscape for comprehensive permaculture planning & design would be a terrain mapping drone. How to quickly & accurately map a large plot of land without breaking the bank would be a great video to go along with this excellent AR Sandbox series. (Hopefully there are some open source tools & diy drone mods by now that would open this survey method up for almost anyone anywhere who is the least bit tech savvy?)

  • @amillison

    @amillison

    4 жыл бұрын

    Alan, thanks for the good feedback and agreed about the usefulness of a good inexpensive drone mapping how-to video. I'll have to suggest that a friend who does such work.

  • @alanmcrae8594

    @alanmcrae8594

    4 жыл бұрын

    Cool! Hope he makes a video half as good as yours.

  • @williamhansen9456

    @williamhansen9456

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@alanmcrae8594 There's a YT channel, I think it's called 'Takota Coen' with a video about this.

  • @tcfarms7645
    @tcfarms76454 күн бұрын

    Thank you Andrew!!!

  • @anneg8319
    @anneg83195 ай бұрын

    I truly enjoy your presentations. They've helped me so much. Thank you. PS I also enjoy the bulldozer sound effects at 2:09 :-)

  • @bonnieoppelt2734
    @bonnieoppelt27342 жыл бұрын

    Amazing video. Thanks for sharing.

  • @hyperboreangardener1269
    @hyperboreangardener12693 жыл бұрын

    Finally a clear explanation on contour lines !!! thank you you machine is amazing :O, bet you feel like god.

  • @silmatar778
    @silmatar778 Жыл бұрын

    even with this magnificent tool you use I have such a hard time to visualize anything from 2D to 3D! I'll need to watch your videos several rimes. Thank you very didactic

  • @darinladd5312
    @darinladd5312 Жыл бұрын

    Dude yer awesome. Gave me the confidence to pursue my current project.

  • @amillison

    @amillison

    Жыл бұрын

    So glad to hear that!

  • @Guillermopenavisionevolucion
    @Guillermopenavisionevolucion4 жыл бұрын

    Thankyou very very much it is great course!!

  • @hudson8865
    @hudson88652 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much.

  • @prepperbr
    @prepperbr2 жыл бұрын

    Awesome thank you

  • @titchc3657
    @titchc36573 жыл бұрын

    Awesome, thanks.

  • @meineliebste
    @meineliebste3 жыл бұрын

    awesome graphics!

  • @anthonyburke5656
    @anthonyburke56567 ай бұрын

    The next maxim is that water at height is more valuable than lower water. Double the height of the water and you usually triple the area the water can be reticulated to at very low cost. It follows that the higher water is retained, the more valuable the water. The most important maxim is “the true place for water is in the soil”. Remember those points and you have the gist of the tasks.

  • @javiercors946
    @javiercors946 Жыл бұрын

    awesome awesome , thanks!

  • @anthonyburke5656
    @anthonyburke56567 ай бұрын

    It’s really simple, I “Brittle” climates, the most pressing and basic task of agriculture is to change the flow of water across the landscape by 90 degrees. Understand the basic task and condition ALL decisions on that, you have completed 50% of your task.

  • @BikeAndFish1
    @BikeAndFish13 жыл бұрын

    👍👍 Nice.. Love it..

  • @Carhug2012
    @Carhug20122 жыл бұрын

    Hey dude, this is an awesome presentation! Could you make another one w/ Mark Shepards water system and this tool? It's an improvement on Yomann's systems. Extremely similar, but a different way towards the end, and it actually makes it something you can harvest easily.

  • @coachcal4876

    @coachcal4876

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes!

  • @mimicnature-naturalwayoffa3972
    @mimicnature-naturalwayoffa3972 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @amillison

    @amillison

    Жыл бұрын

    So glad you're enjoying my content! Thank you for the contribution :-)

  • @danielp1569
    @danielp15693 жыл бұрын

    Are there similar resources or tools we can use to simulate water flow in 3d using stl file topographic map?

  • @seanthedevlin
    @seanthedevlin2 жыл бұрын

    I *need* one of these tables.

  • @HemendraSinghMD
    @HemendraSinghMD2 жыл бұрын

    Thankyou

  • @BarbellMethod
    @BarbellMethod6 ай бұрын

    ❤❤❤

  • @didiopestana1186
    @didiopestana11863 жыл бұрын

    Hi Andrew. With how much precision, distance between contour lines, would you need to map your land to make / work on a proper design ? Thanks in advance!

  • @amillison

    @amillison

    3 жыл бұрын

    Didio, it really depends on the slope you're working with. Usually I get maps with 2' contour intervals and that is very detailed for most landscapes. But recently I have consulted for some properties that were pretty flat and we needed 6 inch contour intervals to really distinguish the land form. With a Lidar survey, you can get as detailed as you'd like, although at some point even grasses will start to distort the contours from Lidar. So ultimately, it depends on your topography.

  • @didiopestana1186

    @didiopestana1186

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@amillison You mean 2 inches ? more or less half a meter ? My terrain has many slopes and is very vegetation dense. Thanks again Andrew for the help and the super instructive videos!

  • @amillison

    @amillison

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@didiopestana1186 2' means 2 feet. But in metric I'd say 1/2 meter contour intervals is usually good for most terrain.

  • @didiopestana1186

    @didiopestana1186

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@amillison Thanks a lot for the help again!

  • @DAMFOREIGNER
    @DAMFOREIGNER2 жыл бұрын

    Makes me want to go and start a permaculture project. Thank you for a good video. Fyi I started watching it at 1.5 speed and you sounded like Ben Shapiro...LOL

  • @joannasoyka3382
    @joannasoyka33824 жыл бұрын

    Supercool!

  • @Luktus8
    @Luktus8 Жыл бұрын

    Do you happen to have anything on creating a farm on flat land

  • @ArtemisArtyIngothold
    @ArtemisArtyIngothold2 жыл бұрын

    Does anyone have any resources on how to include keyline design patterns on a flat land? I can't seem to find any

  • @rachelfrght3841

    @rachelfrght3841

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hi. Did you have any luck?

  • @anneg8319

    @anneg8319

    5 ай бұрын

    From what I understand, no land is perfectly flat. Experiment with an A-frame to see. Check out "West Texas Garden Experiment " KZread channel on how he built his swales. He also devised a really cool, simple, modified A-frame.

  • @doppelell
    @doppelell2 жыл бұрын

    How do you do that? Magic?

  • @ProfBoggs
    @ProfBoggs Жыл бұрын

    Does AR mean augmented reality? Or is this a real sandbox like in his other videos?

  • @christopherhorn5274
    @christopherhorn52742 жыл бұрын

    All contour lines always form complete circles on a big enough map.

  • @amillison

    @amillison

    2 жыл бұрын

    good point!

  • @tooleystrees

    @tooleystrees

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@amillison Hi Andrew, this was forwarded to me by a young student. Nice work and I always enjoy your work. We will cross paths sometime. I would like to send you some pics where we have been working on the Lordsburg Playa for a few years now. Doing a combo of Keyline plowing, Dixon Land Imprinting and seeding in one pass on contour and parallel to contour. Peach, Gordon Tooleys Trees and Keyline Design

  • @amillison

    @amillison

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tooleystrees Hi Gordon, great to hear from you and hope you are doing well after all these years. You can email me at amillison@gmail.com to send me pictures. Take care :-0

  • @trukeesey8715
    @trukeesey87152 жыл бұрын

    Señor y señora Ssippi.

  • @world1.618
    @world1.6182 жыл бұрын

    Can you not explain land slides with this?

  • @bawselife6859
    @bawselife68592 жыл бұрын

    Ridge lines and water divider lines are the same arnt they

  • @barbaraburkhardt3047
    @barbaraburkhardt30473 жыл бұрын

    Ai.... keyline vs swales

  • @trukeesey8715
    @trukeesey87152 жыл бұрын

    "Water is always movin from the high ridges to the valleys." If that is true, then how does the water get into the sky? Maybe you meant liquid water?

  • @friendsofthegerund7693
    @friendsofthegerund76932 жыл бұрын

    Soils do not distribute. Soils are passive. They RECEIVE the action they do not act. "Soils ARE DISTRIBUTED." If your teacher did not teach you "active voice" versus "passive voice", then now is the time to take an hour or two and practice alone prior to your next public speakin.

  • @ProfBoggs

    @ProfBoggs

    Жыл бұрын

    Seeing your user name helps me understand your motivation. And I only needed one gerund to say that ;)

  • @trukeesey8715

    @trukeesey8715

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ProfBoggs Thank you. "Only needed" -- or "only one"? You are welcome to join the movement. Check out the blog, if you can find it. Link won't be displayed if I put one here. I think that you can find it if you keep the quotation's markings: "friends of the gerund".

  • @prepperbr
    @prepperbr2 жыл бұрын

    Awesome thank you