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Prickly Pear are the perfect permaculture plant for parched places

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Permaculture attempt in high desert of California

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Anybody growing without irrigation?

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Getting things started

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The Big Fat Thread of Dryland Farming Ideas!

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Screaming hot spot in the garden where nothing can grow. Cheap/free suggestions anyone?

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Permaculture in Extreme Desert?

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Understanding drought and drought tolerance

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one piece of advice for desert permies- what would YOURS be?

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What is the point of Nitrogen fixing trees without Inoculant?

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Need help with drought resistant perennials that deer love?

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Can you make rain with permaculture?

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Ice Stupa Artificial Glacier Project

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Show me your desert fence

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How to Get Water to Plants and Trees in Drought Conditions

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Jump starting sugar snap peas?

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What would you look for when buying land in the desert?

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my final update on Al Baydha

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Land Planning High Desert

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desert permaculture design

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Jump starting sugar snap peas?

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What would you look for when buying land in the desert?

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Land Planning High Desert

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irrigating ~10,000 sq ft

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Suggestions for improving high desert soil fertility

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Planting Trees For Rain

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USGS Study of adjacent watersheds, confirming the value of 20,000 check dams!

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Growing Corn in the Desert Without Supplemental Water or Compost

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Endangered Fruit Cactus

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A permie guide to Drylands

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Permaculture in the high desert of California

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Given the chance to show the possibilities

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What Would You Do With My High Desert Yards?

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New biomimicry device to help plant seeds that drill themselves into the soil

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dehumidifier to olla

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Greening an old gravel pit in the high desert // I am using and also selling waterboxxes!

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Spanish Colonial Irrigation Ditches

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Anyone invent an easy, low-tech prune/harvest method for brittlebush flower stalks?

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High Desert Fruit Tree Guild Members?

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A permie guide on Hydrology

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Hydrocarbon degradation=Net gain of water?

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What would you look for when buying land in the desert?

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Reforestation - Growing trees in arid, barren lands - by Seeds and Clay cubes (no watering)

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Resources specific to starting high desert permaculture

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Land Planning High Desert

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Planting Trees For Rain

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Desert Corn Growing Techniques

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Desert Tree Establishment

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A permie guide to Drylands

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Permaculture attempt in high desert of California

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New biomimicry device to help plant seeds that drill themselves into the soil

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Sonoran Desert

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Permaculture in Dry Areas

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The Big Fat Thread of Dryland Farming Ideas!

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Spanish Colonial Irrigation Ditches

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beans

Perennial dryland beans - anyone willing to grow them out?

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A permie guide on Hydrology

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Anyone invent an easy, low-tech prune/harvest method for brittlebush flower stalks?

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one piece of advice for desert permies- what would YOURS be?

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permaculture

Small, easy projects that make a big difference

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What Would You Do With My High Desert Yards?

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Starting Food Forest but... no soil, crazy winds, and little rain

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Suggestions for improving high desert soil fertility

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projects

keyhole garden in summer drought

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USGS Study of adjacent watersheds, confirming the value of 20,000 check dams!

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Endangered Fruit Cactus

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Permaculture in the high desert of California

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soil

Turning sand into soil

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So here's the 2 acres I'm probably getting 😆

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Greening the New Mexican desert

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irrigating ~10,000 sq ft

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Seeking permacultarists for land in Fresno County, CA

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How to Get Water to Plants and Trees in Drought Conditions

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Reviving Rivers California - March 30th in San Rafael With Dr. Rajendra Singh - the Waterman of Indi

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Anybody growing without irrigation?

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Jump starting sugar snap peas?

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Does creosote bush / chaparral compost and mulch well

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Building a farm in the high desert of California

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Growing Corn in the Desert Without Supplemental Water or Compost

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Given the chance to show the possibilities

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Pacifying Heavy Rain in a Native Hawaiian Dryland Restoration System

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replacing irrigation with permaculture

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Loquat seedlings using Indian desert growing technique

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Understanding drought and drought tolerance

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Keyline (subsoil ripping) in Chihuhuan Desert (PIC's)

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Composting prickly pear and looking for other compost ingredients in the desert

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dehumidifier to olla

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the man who planted trees

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Starting our first permaculture beds in the desert of Egypt! Help us start :)

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Nopales cactus pads for sale

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Greening an old gravel pit in the high desert // I am using and also selling waterboxxes!

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High Desert Fruit Tree Guild Members?

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Hazelnuts in the Desert

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my final update on Al Baydha

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How to use Ollas (sub-irrigating clay pots) to save water

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West Phoenix Reforestation

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Air Well - collecting water from the air

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forest garden

Hello from northeast New Mexico! High, dry, windy plains, mostly flat, need advice on how to start.

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Greening the Desert - Salton Sea area

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Slowing the flow. Why doesn't the water just erode around the edges of dam?

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