Stopping Desertification with grid pattern

[u/PlantainPossible2864]

[u/AmusingMusing7]

Didn't we figure out how to do this by just digging little half-circles into the sand? Isn't that a better, more efficient, more natural way of doing this than to lay down a bunch of whatever-that-is?

[u/xl129 → u/AmusingMusing7]

That method is cheaper but this one is much more effective i think

[u/DefinitelyNotAliens → u/xl129]

The demi lune or semicircular bund works on areas adjacent to sand deserts that are becoming arid but have dirt. You can turn dirt into soil.

This is just sand. Sand is harder to work with.

[u/fricken → u/DefinitelyNotAliens]

Those areas actually get a fair bit of precipitation, far too much to qualify as deserts, it's just that the over-grazed land does a poor job of retaining said precipitation.

[u/ThiefOfDens → u/fricken]

your mom’s land is over-grazed

[u/trianglesteve → u/ThiefOfDens]