water harvesting
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A Computer Geek Starts a Garden, Part I – Background, Design and Initial Implementation
The yard in winter, before work begins… A great many people today are living in fear. The future looks uncertain,…
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Planning for Permanence with Yeomans’ Keyline Scale
The Keyline Contribution to Permaculture Without Percival Alfred (P.A.) Yeomans and his Keyline concepts Permaculture as we know it would…
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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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Permaculture at The Farm
Former stockbroker Brian Bankston now calls himself the “Keyline Cowboy” after a carbon farming course at The Farm’s Ecovillage Training…
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Army of Permaculturists – Ready for Battle
These are the people of Molokai, a 300 square mile island in the center of the main chain of the…
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What (and not) About that Natural Pool Conversion on the Gold Coast?
April 2008 It’s been about a year now since I had the pleasure of Craig at my house to do…
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Got Water?
A grassroots effort to increase, catch and store rainwater on Molokai Kanawai. Ka-na-wai literally means “belonging-to-the-waters”. Under traditional Hawaiian law…
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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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Rosella Waters – Earthworks Phase 1, Part A
After many months of planning and waiting for the earthmovers to have their equipment available, the transformation of our humble…
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Urban Design Patterns in Melbourne
by Dan Palmer, Very Edible Gardens As more and more people become aware of the many reasons to provide for…
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Southern Baja – Unique and Universal Water Challenges
The Baja Peninsula forms an unusual geographic feature – running about 800 miles as the crow flies from the Mexico/California…
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