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    8 tips for even deeper water savings

    Here are a few tips to deepen your water-saving Practice, which you aren't likely to find on typical how-to lists. The habit shifts apply no matter whether you live in a house, rental, condo, or apartment.

    May 26, 2022
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    Bucketting

    How to make bucketting a habit as part of your overall water savings.

    May 24, 2022
  • Abundant Harvests - garden info,  water wisdom

    Water for the birds

    As we enter this dry, dry summer, humans aren't the only ones short of water. In my Backyard Wildlife Habitat, my bird, butterfly, lizard, and insect friends need water too.

    May 19, 2022
  • Abundant Harvests - garden info,  My home garden,  water wisdom

    Drought-tolerant container gardening

    Here's what I am doing for the flowerpot / container section of my garden

    May 14, 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,  water wisdom

    Hydrophobic: What to do when your soil is too dry

    You pour water on your garden soil but it rolls right off the surface. It won't soak in! Here's what to do.

    March 10, 2022
  • My home garden,  water wisdom

    Drought-ready gardens

    We know already that it’s gonna be a long hot summer.  And (despite LA Times misleading headlines) Southern California is STILL in extreme drought conditions.  That means we’ve got to adapt our gardens. Here’s what I’m doing at mine:

    July 7, 2016
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    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
  • 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
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