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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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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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Tamera and their Water Retention Landscape

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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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Replacing topsoil new permaculture farm

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

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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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Reduce your garden's watering needs

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My fenceposts attract trees

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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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What to do with invasive species in dunes

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David Bamberger 50 yrs wastland to lush oasis

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Encouraging long roots

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Dry farming grapes

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Cape Town water crisis--ideas that can help?

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What to do with large sloped hillside?

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Starting my forest in desert

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Need help in west Texas

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Water on top of mountain?

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Keyline, pioneer species, tap root and tree spades

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Swales and landslides

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Water storing fallow on a quarter acre scale?

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

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Keyline stops 1200ac bushfire!

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projects

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

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gardening for beginners

Reduce your garden's watering needs

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permaculture

replacing irrigation with permaculture

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woodland

the man who planted trees

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cattle

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

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workshops

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

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wwoof / organic farm volunteers/interns/jobs

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

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What is the point of Nitrogen fixing trees without Inoculant?

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Study shows rain in the desert brings death to its ecosystem

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small farm

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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Can you make rain with permaculture?

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Alternate rows of plastic sheeting for dryland irrigation?

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communication

Danyadara - A permaculture farm reversing desertification in Southern Spain

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My Love Affair with Buffalograss, Buchloe dactyloides

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Small farm irrigation

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dvds, movies, videos and documentaries

Allan Savory Wins Award

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Show me your desert fence

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Dry farming grapes

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

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meaningless drivel

calango lengo - the eternal dance between life, death and water

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Replacing topsoil new permaculture farm

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All this talk about greening the desert has got me thinking...

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Collecting atmospheric water using a large greenhouse like structure

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Step wells, sand dams, and suqakollos: ancient solutions to modern water problems

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gardening for beginners

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

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plants

High Desert Growies

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cattle

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

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Irrigating with salt water

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forest garden

Starting my forest in desert

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

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projects

keyhole garden in summer drought

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Gardening Without Irrigation In Hot Dry Mediterranean California

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meaningless drivel

The California Problem

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Swales and landslides

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Is this permaculture and can it be done in the southwest desert?

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Cape Town water crisis--ideas that can help?

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WOW--what an idea. Liquid "nano" clay onto desert sand.

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homestead

** Homestead Safety-HEAT

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permaculture design

What to do with large sloped hillside?

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Wicking Irrigation for Tree Establishment

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Successful examples of re-greening, reforrestation in semi-arid Mediterranean climates Spain, Port..

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