Diversion Furrows

Diversion Furrows for Catching Water for Growing Food introduces learners to a simple, low-cost rainwater harvesting practice that helps guide runoff water from paths, slopes, hard surfaces or open ground into food gardens, fields, trench beds, ponds or storage areas. The unit supports learners to observe how water moves across their own land, understand how diversion furrows can reduce erosion and improve soil moisture, and explore how this practice can support more climate-resilient food growing in household, homestead and community garden contexts. Diversion furrows are described in the WRC materials as channels that direct rainwater runoff to cropped areas or storage structures. .