Earth Ponds: The Country Pond Maker's Guide to Building, Maintenance, and Restoration (Third Edition)

The bible of pond-making in a fully redesigned 30th-anniversary edition.

There is nothing like a pond. What else can simultaneously increase your aesthetic pleasure, offer recreational opportunities, help the environment, and increase the value of your property? Earth Ponds is the standard resource for building and maintaining these important and lovely landscape features. For thirty years now Earth Ponds, with some 100,000 copies in print, has guided an entire generation of pond makers on everything from site planning to soil sampling to drainage and wildlife management. It’s a complete overview of the country pond. Illustrations guide the pond builder through every step of the process; chapters carefully describe the issues and decisions in a wonderfully personal way. It’s the condensed wisdom of a man who has spent a lifetime building, restoring, and maintaining ponds.
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Earth Ponds: The Country Pond Maker's Guide to Building, Maintenance, and Restoration (Third Edition)

The bible of pond-making in a fully redesigned 30th-anniversary edition.

There is nothing like a pond. What else can simultaneously increase your aesthetic pleasure, offer recreational opportunities, help the environment, and increase the value of your property? Earth Ponds is the standard resource for building and maintaining these important and lovely landscape features. For thirty years now Earth Ponds, with some 100,000 copies in print, has guided an entire generation of pond makers on everything from site planning to soil sampling to drainage and wildlife management. It’s a complete overview of the country pond. Illustrations guide the pond builder through every step of the process; chapters carefully describe the issues and decisions in a wonderfully personal way. It’s the condensed wisdom of a man who has spent a lifetime building, restoring, and maintaining ponds.
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Earth Ponds: The Country Pond Maker's Guide to Building, Maintenance, and Restoration (Third Edition)

Earth Ponds: The Country Pond Maker's Guide to Building, Maintenance, and Restoration (Third Edition)

by Tim Matson
Earth Ponds: The Country Pond Maker's Guide to Building, Maintenance, and Restoration (Third Edition)

Earth Ponds: The Country Pond Maker's Guide to Building, Maintenance, and Restoration (Third Edition)

by Tim Matson

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The bible of pond-making in a fully redesigned 30th-anniversary edition.

There is nothing like a pond. What else can simultaneously increase your aesthetic pleasure, offer recreational opportunities, help the environment, and increase the value of your property? Earth Ponds is the standard resource for building and maintaining these important and lovely landscape features. For thirty years now Earth Ponds, with some 100,000 copies in print, has guided an entire generation of pond makers on everything from site planning to soil sampling to drainage and wildlife management. It’s a complete overview of the country pond. Illustrations guide the pond builder through every step of the process; chapters carefully describe the issues and decisions in a wonderfully personal way. It’s the condensed wisdom of a man who has spent a lifetime building, restoring, and maintaining ponds.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781581577990
Publisher: Countryman Press, The
Publication date: 07/18/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 152
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Tim Matson, a writer and aquaculture consultant, has been advising people how to build and maintain ponds and wetlands for more than 25 years through Earth Ponds, his pond design and restoration consulting firm. His writing has appeared in Yankee, Harrowsmith Country Life, Country Journal, and Vermont Life. He lives in Thetford Center, Vermont.
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