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greening the desert

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Prickly Pear are the perfect permaculture plant for parched places

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keyhole garden in summer drought

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World Domination Gardening 3-DVD set and HD instant view

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

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Air Well - collecting water from the air

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Permaculture attempt in high desert of California

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Getting things started

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Breeding for dew collection, or my experiments with dryland farming

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the man who planted trees

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Sepp Holzer uses no irrigation

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Tamera and their Water Retention Landscape

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replacing irrigation with permaculture

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Ice Stupa Artificial Glacier Project

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Hugles in HOT Drylands

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Show me your desert fence

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geoff lawton, 'greening the desert', original and update

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Allan Savory Wins Award

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Permaculture in Extreme Desert?

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The California Problem

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Anybody growing without irrigation?

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What is the point of Nitrogen fixing trees without Inoculant?

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

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Reduce your garden's watering needs

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Replacing topsoil new permaculture farm

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Failing miserably at what I thought was a pretty modest permaculture garden.

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Can you make rain with permaculture?

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Revitalize 10 Acres Hot, Dry South Texas With Limited Water (and money)

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Need help with possible food forest in the chaparral desert with minimal resources

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Encouraging long roots

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Questions about homesteading/permaculture in the desert

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Dry farming grapes

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Looking for others in Mountain SW - espcially high desert / seasonal monsoon areas

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What to do with large sloped hillside?

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The Desert as Cancer: Treatment strategies

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Using hay mats to help things get started

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Starting my forest in desert

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Water in the desert QUESTIONS!!

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Regenerative grazing demonstration project - on the I-5 in California

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Need help in west Texas

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Reforesting the world: the Australian farmer with 240m trees to his name

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What are some uses for an arroya (dry creek/wash) that periodically morphs into a raging river?

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Questions about homesteading/permaculture in the desert

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Water in the desert QUESTIONS!!

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Tamera and their Water Retention Landscape

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Reforesting overgrazed plains (absentee) seeds surviving the cold and dry

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Las Vegas Food Foresters

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Regenerative grazing demonstration project - on the I-5 in California

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Gardening Without Irrigation In Hot Dry Mediterranean California

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gardening for beginners

Reduce your garden's watering needs

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keyhole garden in summer drought

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Looking for others in Mountain SW - espcially high desert / seasonal monsoon areas

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Anyone from Coachella Valley trying to green the desert?

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The Desert as Cancer: Treatment strategies

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Urban desert permaculture

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Hot dry summers in northern NV

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Test seed germination in cactus pads and Alovera leaves.

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

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How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change TED Talk

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southwest usa

Help me transform this into something useful

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Fruit Trees and Berries that Grow Best in Your Area Naturally- Dry Climate Hardiness Zone 3

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What's the definitive book on drylands permaculture??

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Fruit Trees and Berries that Grow Best in Your Area Naturally- Dry Climate Zone 10

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My task: turning barren land into a food garden for disempowered women and girls in India

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Can you make rain with permaculture?

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projects

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

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high wind trees livestock friendly cal. high desert

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Ecosystem restoration camps: John D. Liu's new take on saving the planet

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Using hay mats to help things get started

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Permaculture attempt in high desert of California

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Show me your desert fence

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What is the point of Nitrogen fixing trees without Inoculant?

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Desert compost ingredients -- other suggestions.

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Grass! Wind! Birds! (establishing grasses/reclamation) Arid climate?

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Reforesting the world: the Australian farmer with 240m trees to his name

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Water storing fallow on a quarter acre scale?

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Keyline stops 1200ac bushfire!

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replacing irrigation with permaculture

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the man who planted trees

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Come visit us! Central California Homestead, looking for visitors & potentially people to join us!

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Study shows rain in the desert brings death to its ecosystem

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Revitalize 10 Acres Hot, Dry South Texas With Limited Water (and money)

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Water on top of mountain?

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Alternate rows of plastic sheeting for dryland irrigation?

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Danyadara - A permaculture farm reversing desertification in Southern Spain

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My Love Affair with Buffalograss, Buchloe dactyloides

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