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keyhole garden in summer drought

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

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Prickly Pear are the perfect permaculture plant for parched places

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World Domination Gardening 3-movie set as HD streaming

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Air Well - collecting water from the air

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Breeding for dew collection, or my experiments with dryland farming

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Permaculture attempt in high desert of California

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Anybody growing without irrigation?

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Getting things started

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Sepp Holzer uses no irrigation

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the man who planted trees

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Tamera and their Water Retention Landscape

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The Big Fat Thread of Dryland Farming Ideas!

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replacing irrigation with permaculture

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WyOasis (in the snow) Greenhouse Build

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Greening the Desert (and updates) by Geoff Lawton

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Permaculture in Extreme Desert?

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

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Hugles in HOT Drylands

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What is the point of Nitrogen fixing trees without Inoculant?

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Helping land recover after wild fire

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How did the US repair the Oklahoma Dust Bowl?

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How greening the deserts is Primitive!

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West Phoenix Reforestation

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Western Colorado Desert (where to start?)

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Calculating water "banked" for future pumping in the desert landscape?

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Forest Garden in the hottest parts of the world

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Cold Desert property in Iran

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Hello from northeast New Mexico! High, dry, windy plains, mostly flat, need advice on how to start.

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transforming high desert soil for gardening / farming

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Anyone else get emotional about lost water?

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Pascal Poot and his tomatoes that grow without water

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Xeriscape Fruit Trees?

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High desert chop-and-drop species

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American Agave- Century Plants

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Hackberry trees for a dry climate

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useful videos

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Seeds adapted to no watering in Mediterranean

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Gardening with Less Water by David A. Bainbridge

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Growing and interplanting polycultures of perennials with annuals in the hot dry arid climate

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

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Ideas for a Low Maintenance Permaculture Park?

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Desert Tree Establishment

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West Phoenix Reforestation

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Western Colorado Desert (where to start?)

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Desert Carbon Sink, and other "Greening the Desert" questions

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The Big Fat Thread of Dryland Farming Ideas!

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Anybody growing without irrigation?

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Brag about your dryland swales

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books

Gardening with Less Water by David A. Bainbridge

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How greening the deserts is Primitive!

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Air Well - collecting water from the air

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WyOasis (in the snow) Greenhouse Build

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Growing and interplanting polycultures of perennials with annuals in the hot dry arid climate

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wildfire

Helping land recover after wild fire

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Building a farm in the high desert of California

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High desert chop-and-drop species

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How did the US repair the Oklahoma Dust Bowl?

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

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

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Best Women's Work Boot for the Desert

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Maintaining tools in the desert

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Calculating water "banked" for future pumping in the desert landscape?

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Looking for acorns of sweet holly oak, Quercus ilex rotundifolia to regreen Greece

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Hello from northeast New Mexico! High, dry, windy plains, mostly flat, need advice on how to start.

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seeds and breeding

Sagebrush: seeds, cultivation, and permaculture uses

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transforming high desert soil for gardening / farming

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Dam, Swale, or Hugel - Which one?

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Forest Garden in the hottest parts of the world

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mediterranean climate

Seeds adapted to no watering in Mediterranean

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

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transferforming desert to forest

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Anyone from Coachella Valley trying to green the desert?

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How to upcycle sagebrush? Compost? Hugelkultur?

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Desert or Paradise by Sepp Holzer

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Xeriscape Fruit Trees?

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My Love Affair with Buffalograss, Buchloe dactyloides

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Pascal Poot and his tomatoes that grow without water

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Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond by Brad Lancaster vols 1 and 2

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Is it Possible to Have a Forest Garden in the Desert?

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natural building

Has anyone here tried building a wind catcher for home cooling?

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

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Anyone farming pinyon trees?

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Anyone else get emotional about lost water?

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Replanting over ailanthus altissima

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