Standard orchard
Trees collect rainwater with their foliage, absorb rainwater through their roots, and contribute to a porous soil with good sponge-like properties thanks to their deep roots, humus and the soil organisms that live in it. In combination with herb-rich or extensively grazed grassland, the soil achieves optimal sponge-like functionality.
Natural solutions
- Developing natural grasslands
- Developing natural forests
- Food forest
- Making space for beaver activity
- Making room for natural floodplains
- Making room for meandering
- Raising the stream bed
- Lowering banks
- Removing drainage systems
- Planting scrub hedges and copses
- Standard orchard
- Wide infiltration strip
- Grafts
- Swales
- Keylines
- Converting (maize) fields on slopes into grassland or woodland
- Wadi
- Intercepting runoff on (sunken) roads