Permaculture Week: 5 Ways Ponds Benefit You and Your Garden

5 Ways Ponds can Benefit Yourself and Your Garden

1.)Provide you with fish, ducks, reptiles, and other animals that you can use for food.

2.)Can create biodiversity in your garden by attracting beneficial insects.

3.) Nutrient rich water, filled with fish poop, microbiology, and all that good stuff :), can be used as a natural fertilizer to water your garden.   

4.) Can be used to reflect light from the sun and heat cold-sensitive trees.

5.) Can be used to grow mulch and other nutrient rich plants to add to your compost pile. Some good plants to use include:

• Taro
• Cattail
• Pickerel
• Tule
• Wapato

Here's a youtube video of Geoff Lawton creating some ponds and using water:

Enjoy!