irrigation
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Water
Irrigation with ollas
Olla pots are distinguished by their ability to water the food crop uniformly while using significantly less water. This very…
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Plants
5 gardening tips to keep your plants healthy
Sometimes, it may be difficult to know the best ways to keep your plants healthy, especially if you’re not a…
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Experimenting with Overflowing Circles and Slow-Flow Swales (Panama)
The jungle garden I am not Bill Mollison or Geoff Lawton, they will both happily report; rather, I am but…
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Swales: The Permaculture Element That Really “Holds Water”
by Rob Avis Michelle, Rowen and I were driving home from a vacation in the mountains when we passed by…
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Who Needs Grass?
The Kniskerns’ yard is a sustainable smorgasbord Over a period of less than 10 years, James and Mary Kniskern transformed…
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Irrigation
Ollas: Unglazed Clay Pots for Garden Irrigation
I first encountered the concept of using unglazed clay vessels for sub-surface irrigation in Bill Mollison’s “The Global Gardener” film…
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Letters from Sri Lanka – The World’s Largest Water Harvesting Earthworks Project
A mahout and his elephant (the elephant is the one on the left) Photos Copyright © Craig Mackintosh Preamble: Okay,…
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Desert Ways
Mongongo Tree Whether it is an issue of conserving water of using suitable plant species, thriving in a desert environment…
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Sites Unseen
Making use of resources from a building site The lifecycle of a building site can supply the observant designer with…
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Backyard Aquaponics
This just in, from Christopher Nesbitt: “Backyard Aquaponics” is a new book by Joel Malcolm, an innovator in Perth, Australia…
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