Symbiosis TX

Symbiosis TX Ecological design-build in the Texas Hill Country since 2013. Worker-owned. Chemical-free by principle. What makes a system regenerative? It produces a surplus.

We design land around water first: native and edible landscapes, rainwater catchment, erosion repair, earthworks, and natural building. At Symbiosis Regenerative Systems our team works to solve problems while producing a surplus. We design systems to grow food, build healthy soil, prevent erosion and flooding while recharging aquifers, ponds, and lakes. Our regenerative designs increase our client's quality of life by helping us reconnect to nature as stewards of the land. On top of that, we will increase your property values by adding or improving access roads, rain tanks, fencing, water features, gardens, orchards, terraces, and more. We strive to help our clients live a regenerative lifestyle while improving their land and enjoying this deeply satisfying process.

Did you know you can receive financial assistance from multiple agencies for disaster recovery efforts? In some cases, e...
08/02/2026

Did you know you can receive financial assistance from multiple agencies for disaster recovery efforts? In some cases, even if the disaster was almost 10 years ago?!

Two years ago this 200-acre property in Central Texas had exposed soil in most of its pastures, very little forage, and ...
07/31/2026

Two years ago this 200-acre property in Central Texas had exposed soil in most of its pastures, very little forage, and a runoff problem that was moving water off the land faster than it could do any good. The cattle were going through three round bales a week just to stay fed.

The short version is that earthworks, soil amendments, keyline plowing, and seeding all played a role — but none of them moved the needle the way rotational grazing did once the paddocks were set up and the rest periods got long enough. The property is now running 26 cattle across ten paddocks without supplemental hay, the pond is filling clear instead of milky with sediment, and the last patches of bare soil in the worst pastures are finally closing in.

You can watch our video all about this project and property, here: https://youtu.be/K9b77efPaVY

Adam and Mike walk through the full sequence: water harvesting and earthwork design, how round bales were used to direct animal impact onto the most degraded areas, what the biodiversity looked like at the start versus now, what the seeding program yielded and what they'd change about it, and how the amendment approach has evolved as Symbiosis has added equipment and refined the blend.

Worth noting: most of this progress happened during a multi-year rainfall deficit. The land was responding to the system even before the drought broke. With the recent influx of rain and hopefully a return so average rainfalls for the near future, this system is primed to explode in the best way possible.

If you're set stock grazing for an ag exemption and your pastures aren't improving, reach out to us at https://www.symbiosistx.com/. We'd love to help you build a comprehensive game plan for you land.

07/31/2026

A healthy, intact ecosystem here isn't just about the land itself. It's about what that land makes possible: clean water for drinking and recreation, and a place that still supports the full range of species that depend on it, not just what people can pull from it directly.

One of the underlying issues across Texas, and much of the country, is the loss of permeable ground. Tall grass prairie systems work like a giant sponge, absorbing and holding large volumes of water before it ever reaches the surface. From there, it percolates down into the limestone karst underneath and eventually finds its way out through cliffside seeps and springs into creeks and rivers. Restoring that function means preserving habitat and pollinator space, and managing grazing in a way that lets grasslands actually recover and diversify rather than staying grazed down.

Woodlands play a different but related role. Canopy cover breaks up rainfall and slows the energy of each drop before it hits the ground, while tree roots, particularly from juniper and oak, work their way into cracks in the limestone. That root pe*******on opens up more pathways for water to move into the rock itself, where it saturates the stone and later seeps back out through cliffside springs rather than running off the surface entirely.

Full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWg4fyMxKDo

If your property has grassland or woodland that could be doing more of this work, Symbiosis can help assess what's there now and where the opportunities are. More at symbiosistx.com.

07/29/2026

Healthy upland ecosystems change how water moves before it ever reaches a river. Prairies and woodlands with deep, established root systems soak in rainfall high in the landscape, and those roots, especially from juniper and oak, can follow cracks in the limestone straight down toward springs and, in smaller amounts, the aquifer itself.

That root network does more than move water. When a river rises high enough to spill over its limestone banks into the surrounding woodland, the trees and understory act like a net, catching sediment and debris that would otherwise keep moving downstream. The sediment settles as soil. The debris breaks down slowly through fungi and bacteria, feeding back into the soil and improving how much water the ground can hold the next time it rains.

None of this stops a flood from happening. Flooding is part of how this landscape works. But healthy upland ecosystems change what that flood leaves behind, more water in the ground, more soil built up, less erosion and debris moving downstream. Full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWg4fyMxKDo

If your property sits in one of these upland areas, Symbiosis can help assess how the land is functioning and where there's room to build that resilience. More at symbiosistx.com.

07/28/2026

Before European settlement and the fencing that came with it, bison and other ruminants moved rotationally through the hill country, pushed along by predators and other pressures that kept any one area from being grazed too hard. Once fencing allowed set stock grazing to take hold, that rotation disappeared. Grass got eaten down to the nubs with no chance to recover, and the topsoil underneath had nothing holding it in place, washing away in heavy rain or baking and blowing off during drought.

Overgrazed ground can't soak in water the way it used to. Rain hits compacted, bare soil and rushes straight to the nearest low point, taking topsoil with it instead of recharging the springs and creeks that depend on that infiltration. The pasture in this video tells the other side of that story. Grass here hasn't been grazed in a while, and the root systems run as deep as 15 feet. When water moves through, whether from rain or floodplain flooding, this grass holds it in place instead of letting it rush downhill with the soil attached. That water shows up later as seep springs along the limestone edges nearby.

Full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWg4fyMxKDo

If your land is dealing with erosion, compacted soil, or grazing that's gotten away from you, Symbiosis can help assess what's happening and where the land has room to recover. More at symbiosistx.com.

07/27/2026

When rain hits the Central Texas hill country, it doesn't arrive gently. Steep, river cut terrain sends water shooting off hilltop k***s and straight into the rivers, which is part of why the same watersheds flood again so soon after the last event. Flooding itself is a natural part of this landscape. It always has been.

What changes is how much of that water the land gets to keep, and how much sediment moves with it. Conservation terraces built on contour let rainfall sit in shallow, long pools high in the landscape instead of rushing straight downhill, giving it time to seep through the karst limestone underneath. Some water still moves fast during a big rain event, that's the nature of this terrain. But more of it soaks in, recharges the aquifer, and reaches the river days later instead of all at once, filtered instead of loaded with sediment.

With flooding back in these same watersheds this year, this is worth understanding: not how to stop the water, but how to help the land hold more of it and release the rest with less damage. Full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWg4fyMxKDo

If your property is dealing with erosion, runoff, or repeat flood damage, Symbiosis can help assess what's happening on the land and where the opportunities are. More at symbiosistx.com.

07/05/2026

Berms and swales aren't a new idea. Indigenous cultures across the world have been shaping the land this way for centuries, harvesting water for food production long before anyone had a name for it. What we're doing here is old knowledge, applied with intention.

But here's what makes it remarkable at scale: it doesn't stop at the berm.

The Edwards Aquifer Authority — one of the few research bodies in the world studying this — is finding that water captured in these swales doesn't just sit there. It percolates down, travels underground in a slow subsurface plume, and keeps moving. Filtering through the earth itself. Improving in quality as it goes. Eventually surfacing in seep springs further down the landscape, and in this case, finding its way into the Blanco River.

A single berm and swale isn't just irrigating the plants above it. It's recharging the aquifer below it.

That's the kind of whole-system thinking that separates a land service from a land stewardship practice.

Watch the full breakdown 👉 https://youtu.be/ldzDW_nowDs
Ready to put this to work on your land? Let's talk 👉 https://www.symbiosistx.com/
Want to dig deeper into how it works? 👉 https://www.symbiosistx.com/central-texas-land-regeneration-education-water/

07/04/2026

He thinks of his rain tank as a bank. Every time he waters, he's making a deposit back into the land. And somehow, every time he's worried it's running low, the rain comes and fills it back up.

30,000 gallons off a metal roof. Pulling water that would have run straight off an impermeable surface and disappeared. Now it's supplying irrigation, protecting everything he's put in the ground, and adding a layer of resilience that the city water line just can't offer.

The logic is straightforward. Before your house was there, rain hit that ground and soaked in. Now it hits your roof and goes nowhere useful. A rain tank just closes that loop. Cleaner water, no municipal chemicals, no dependency on infrastructure that failed across Central Texas not long ago.

You don't have to be off grid for this to make sense. Even if you have a well or city water, a tank is just more. More resilience, more capacity, more control over what happens to your land when it gets dry.

Watch the full video 👉 https://youtu.be/f85x5m0ofIw
Ready to start that conversation about your land? 👉 https://www.symbiosistx.com/
Want to learn more about what's possible? 👉 https://www.symbiosistx.com/central-texas-land-regeneration-education-water/

07/03/2026

Too rocky for berms and swales. That's what some people would have said.

This client rented a generator, bought a three inch auger, and drilled 49 holes by hand through limestone. Got his black walnuts in the ground. Cottonwoods too. Fish emulsion, molasses, rainwater, biochar, a spray of microbes once a month. The trees are doing well.

He's expecting to harvest walnuts at 85. Black walnuts take decades to produce. That kind of timeline changes how you think about land, about what you're actually leaving behind.

Anyone willing to rent a drill and get after it can start exactly where he did.

Watch the full video 👉 https://youtu.be/f85x5m0ofIw
Ready to start that conversation about your land? 👉 https://www.symbiosistx.com/
Want to learn more about what's possible? 👉 https://www.symbiosistx.com/central-texas-land-regeneration-education-water/

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