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Mt.goat wrote:
Thank you Paul for your efforts!If Permaculture is to be anything different than convention,than it better explore the uniqueness of its solutions and offer working examples to the public.As a permi `doer` for 15yrs,I cannot stress enough the importance of learning to produce resources without industrial/oil based crutches like irrigation.Keep it up!
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fiveandahalffarm wrote:
How is it that irrigation is an industrial/oil based crutch?
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paul wheaton wrote:
it is my arrogant and obnoxiuous opinion that a good permaculture system has eliminated irrigation.
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Pneal wrote:
I'm currently designing a drip irrigation system for our project in Saudi Arabia but we plan to turn the system off after 3-5 years. Once our mountain is reforested and we have actual foliage that we can mulch with, we will be able to retain a lot more water than we can now. I'm trying to think if we could actually get a system established without irrigation in this environment (summer temperatures of 120F, some years no rain, average rainfall <3 inches)
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Pneal wrote:
I'm currently designing a drip irrigation system for our project in Saudi Arabia but we plan to turn the system off after 3-5 years. Once our mountain is reforested and we have actual foliage that we can mulch with, we will be able to retain a lot more water than we can now. I'm trying to think if we could actually get a system established without irrigation in this environment (summer temperatures of 120F, some years no rain, average rainfall <3 inches)
Additionally you can do things like making a pond at the bottom of a hill, the updraft from the hill carries humid air off the pond and then when temps drop the moisture is wrung out onto the hillside. It's basically how rain works only on a tiny scale.
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SILVERSEEDS wrote:
Funny thing is your talking to a person whos spending the summer building a half acre catchment among other things. Yes i know it can be done larger scale. Its rather expensive though in my case anyway, and not likely to be economically feasible for most, especially when there are other crops....
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Mekka Pakanohida wrote:
Permaculture doesn't have to be expensive at all to set up, in any format.
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SILVERSEEDS wrote:
Well permaculture can be as cheap or expensive as you need or can afford. setting up something to fill a cistern which was what i was talking about in the quoted part here though takes infrastructure. if you know of a cheap way to fill a cistern i am all ears. Im about to be setting one up myself, id love to find a cheaper way.
Mekka Pakanohida wrote:
Build one yourself via recycled materials and then it costs nothing. If Michael Reynolds, the maker of "Earthships" can do it, so can we.
Emerson White wrote:
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