Uploaded July 2021 | Updated September 2026, 13 hours ago
Back in early spring we began work designing and building a few ponds in a new area of forest garden. One of the ponds resembles a canal, being long and straight with steep sides.
Unfortunately the soil did not have enough clay and we couldn't compact the dam walls enough to hold water and the canal started leaking.
A solution was needed to keep water in the canal/pond and, while there are a few options like a plastic liner, we decided to experiment using bentonite clay. It didn't work out for us sadly and since making this film we have lined the canal with pond liner. However we can see that, used in the right pond construction, bentonite clay would work very well.
About Tap o' Noth Farm:
Hi, we're James and Rosa! Welcome to Tap o' Noth Farm, a quarter acre Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) market garden and 8 acre permaculture designed forest garden farm/homestead in Aberdeenshire, NE Scotland. We practice home scale to small farm scale agroforestry and regenerative agriculture methods to produce organic fruit and vegetables, raise dairy goats for all our raw milk needs, Shetland sheep and geese to graze our silvopasture and coppice systems and laying hens, moved around in a Chickshaw, for an abundance of eggs.
Patreon: patreon.com/tapfarm
If you're looking for even more content from James and Rosa then you can become a patron of Tap Farm. It takes James between 5-10 hrs to edit our vlogs, let alone the time it takes to film and farm at the same time! Your support will aid us greatly in producing our FARMVLOGS, enabling us to take the time needed to craft a beautiful film and to help fund the licences needed for the vlog soundtrack. We will list your name at the end of each vlog episode so everyone knows how brilliant you are! We will also keep you updated on our farm work/life by posting exclusive video content that is not available on YouTube such as FARMVLOG outtakes, behind the scenes footage, hints & tips and more in depth videos discussing the many permaculture systems to be found on the farm PLUS the odd photo from Rosa and James.
INSTAGRAM - @TAPFARM
FACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarm
TAP CHAT - FACEBOOK GROUP for subscribers /followers - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...
WEBSITE - taponothfarm.com
#bentoniteclay #leakypond #permaculture
Back in early spring we began work designing and building a few ponds in a new area of forest garden. One of the ponds resembles a canal, being long and straight with steep sides.
Unfortunately the soil did not have enough clay and we couldn't compact the dam walls enough to hold water and the canal started leaking.
A solution was needed to keep water in the canal/pond and, while there are a few options like a plastic liner, we decided to experiment using bentonite clay. It didn't work out for us sadly and since making this film we have lined the canal with pond liner. However we can see that, used in the right pond construction, bentonite clay would work very well.
About Tap o' Noth Farm:
Hi, we're James and Rosa! Welcome to Tap o' Noth Farm, a quarter acre Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) market garden and 8 acre permaculture designed forest garden farm/homestead in Aberdeenshire, NE Scotland. We practice home scale to small farm scale agroforestry and regenerative agriculture methods to produce organic fruit and vegetables, raise dairy goats for all our raw milk needs, Shetland sheep and geese to graze our silvopasture and coppice systems and laying hens, moved around in a Chickshaw, for an abundance of eggs.
Patreon: patreon.com/tapfarm
If you're looking for even more content from James and Rosa then you can become a patron of Tap Farm. It takes James between 5-10 hrs to edit our vlogs, let alone the time it takes to film and farm at the same time! Your support will aid us greatly in producing our FARMVLOGS, enabling us to take the time needed to craft a beautiful film and to help fund the licences needed for the vlog soundtrack. We will list your name at the end of each vlog episode so everyone knows how brilliant you are! We will also keep you updated on our farm work/life by posting exclusive video content that is not available on YouTube such as FARMVLOG outtakes, behind the scenes footage, hints & tips and more in depth videos discussing the many permaculture systems to be found on the farm PLUS the odd photo from Rosa and James.
INSTAGRAM - @TAPFARM
FACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarm
TAP CHAT - FACEBOOK GROUP for subscribers /followers - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...
WEBSITE - taponothfarm.com
#bentoniteclay #leakypond #permaculture
