WHAT IS AN EARTH POND?

Earth ponds are natural earthen reservoirs, often created by excavation and/or damming up a natural soil-based basin, sometimes with the addition of a clay or artificial membrane liner.

Earth ponds can be used for swimming, garden landscaping, raising fish, and more...

This site is designed to give you information as well as provide a way to get expert consulting services and consulting designs when planning or constructing your pond or garden pond.

SECOND POND - FIRST RATE

Spring is a great time to plan a pond, or maybe even a second pond. In Tim Matson's latest pondology, read about the different types of second pond construction and ownerships, and learn about a new partner of earthponds.com.

RETURN to A COUNTRY PLANET
Available again as an eBook after many years out of print. New 25th Anniversary Edition of Tim Matson’s prize winning stories of Rural Savvy, Skills, and Survival. Includes Smart Approaches to Water Issues, from Ponds to Dowsing a Water Well.

“Reading A Country Planet is a little like eavesdropping on someone talking to himself about pigs and hayrakes and listers, but talking in a wry, corner-of-the mouth style that makes the eavesdropper snort and whinny to himself… The general effect is to make you want to run out and buy a slice of Vermont hillside and start cutting trees to build your own cabin in the woods even if you’ve already done it years ago.”

Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize winner and author
of Brokeback Mountain

Download your copy today.

Pond guru Tim is profiled in YANKEE MAGAZINE. Click here to read it.

 

The Book of Non-Electric Lighting by Tim Matson is available as an eBook for your Amazon Kindle. Click here to check it out.

 

Articles by Tim Matson

Bringing Back a Swamp: Discover Ways to Naturalize Wetland Features for Your Pond Read the article.

A Win-Wind Solution: from Tim Matson's article for Backhome Magazine. Read an excerpt.

A Pond in the Woods: Read this article which appeared on the Northern Woodlands website.



Tim didn't get serious about making beer until the 70's, but read this article to get a glimpse into his early days of experimenting with fermentation.

Here’s a Second Pond that was built after the owners moved (leaving a pond behind) and found themselves high and dry without a backyard waterfront. Digging a pond was such a high priority that it was the first thing they did after getting their house built. Over the years the pond has supplied garden irrigation, trout habitat, a place to teach kids swimming and skating, livestock water, and a beautiful view from the house.

“Pond building may be one of the best uses of fossil fuel we can make today.”

POND PERFECT

Landscaping Earth Ponds:
The Complete Guide
& The Earth Ponds DVD

Review by Peter Bane
The Permaculture Activist

This is Tim Matson’s fourth book on ponds and perhaps the most beautiful yet. Showcasing a range of natural features that might enhance the aesthetic of a country pond, he nonetheless manages to include a lot of useful information for pond builders. Handsome color photos throughout illustrate stone embankments, edge vegetation, specimen trees, benches, and mountain backdrops, while including a few buildings, docks, and other bits of built infrastructure. A handful of nicely executed line drawings show design features, plans, bridge variations, underground connections, and other elements not easily photographed. Read more...

"Aside from some particularly thoughtful frogs and phragmites, no one on earth knows more about ponds than Tim Matson." Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma

 

 

Read reviews of Tim Matson's books and videos.

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