Today’s show expands on last weeks first show about Permaculture Zones and Layers (Episode 196) by discussing different methods to harvest and conserve water. Today’s link section includes some of the best resources i have ever featured on a shows subject matter, I encourage you to check them all out.
Tune in today to hear,
- Why you don’t have to want to save the planet to benifit highly from water conservation
- Thoughts on rain barrels and getting water closer to where you plan to use it
- Thoughts on moving from barrels to underground cisterns or tanks
- Rain chains a much more attractive way to get water to where you want it than a down spout
- Harvesting water from outbuildings and greenhouses
- Converting garbage cans to low cost rain catch barrels
- The swale and how it can create an oasis even in a salted desert
- Following contour lines is what makes a swale effective
- The pond the right way as part of an ecosystem not a hot puddle in the middle of a field
- Micro ponds and micro swales
- Intensive mulching actually creates a 1 inch deep lake within the entire surface area of a food forest
Resources for Today’s Show
- Excellent collection of water harvesting technical info
- Harvest H2O a Great Site with Excellent Articles
- YouTube Video on Making your Own Rain Chains
- Zuni Water Harvesting – Perhaps the Original Square Foot Garden
- Greening the Desert – Amazing what can be done at what you could call the end of the earth
- PDF from Barking Frog that Mentions Mini Ponds (page 5) – Be warned this PDF is very informative but very hard to read and jumps all over the place.
- Region 5 Get Together
- Members Support Brigade
- Dirt Time 2009
- Lights Out Audio Preview
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