What Is a Drainage Swale? (And Does it Really Work?)

Skylee on Instagram: "We have a lot of BIG projects this year and one of our most important ones is our swales. Digging swales will give us a permanent shape on our property that will catch water and give it time to saturate the soil instead of letting it run off the property. Swales also make a perfect location to plant trees, where they have drainage, but also a reservoir of water in the soil. Which we need a lot of to block the wind here! Trees help the swales work better as well, because the

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