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  • water wisdom

    My drip bucket technique – low tech drip irrigation

    You discover one of your tender young plants is wilting – and it's not your day to water your yard. What can you do?

    June 17, 2022
  • Creating social change,  Designing edible landscapes,  water wisdom

    Multi-year drought, megadrought or Aridification

    "Drought" is a really lightweight term for what we're experiencing. We should really be using far stronger terms. A multi-year drought? A megadrought? Aridification?

    March 27, 2022
  • Abundant Harvests - garden info

    What’s your get-ready-for-rain routine?

    We’re ever hopeful that we’ll get some rain.  Here in L.A., deep into this historic drought, that still remains a big hope! But each time the weather forecasts call for precipitation, I run around doing my routine … garden tools…

    January 4, 2016
  • Abundant Harvests - garden info

    Rainwater Harvesting demonstrated at the Community Garden

    We have 4 different types of rainwater harvesting demonstrated at the Community Garden at Holy Nativity in Los Angeles.  You are welcome to come and see them, and copy them at home.

    December 9, 2015
  • water wisdom

    El Niño: What to check on your downspouts

    In usually-water-lean Southern California, most of us have directed rain gutter downspouts to run into our gardens, so that we can make the most of every drop. (drawing A) This is a great setup for most years, when we get…

    November 21, 2015
  • water wisdom

    Are you prepared for El Niño?

    Looking for guidance on what to do to get ready for the Godzilla El Niño storms?  If you missed our workshop last weekend, here are other places to get the info…

    November 10, 2015
  • Abundant Harvests - garden info,  water wisdom

    Making the best of drought and flood

    Seems like we’re getting the weather extremes this year.  A summer of extreme drought, water rationing, and lawn removal.  And winter forecasts are for record-breaking rains (but all that water isn’t here yet). How do we make the best of…

    August 19, 2015
  • water wisdom

    Rainwater harvesting: Infiltration features

    One category of rainwater harvesting uses Mother Earth as your “storage device.”  You design your landcape, including choices on surface materials and making decisions about the grading (land sculpting), with the goal of making water soak into the ground. Up until fairly…

    August 18, 2015
  • water wisdom

    Rainwater harvesting: Capture and Store devices

      I’ve written before about rain barrels.  At the Community Garden at Holy Nativity, we have rain tanks.  TreePeople has a massive cistern up on Mulholland. All of these devices — rain barrels, rain tanks, cisterns — are what are…

    August 17, 2015
  • water wisdom

    Water waste or water savings – which are you planning for?

    If the most current forecasts prove true, we in drought-wracked Southern California could be in for a very wet winter.  Weather analysts are predicting a Godzilla El Niño, with once-in-a-generation levels of rainfall. Rainwater harvesting is the word of the…

    August 16, 2015
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