Companion planting and guilds. Attracting pollinators, chop and drop mulch. I use leave from comfrey plants in my fruit tree guilds. Sea lard and ways for rain water to gather to water especially fruit trees. We compost and add our chicken ma ure to it a f tip dress raised beds and permacultures areas with it. Our raised bed vegetable garden we installed drip irrigations d will be connecting it to our rain barrels with a pump. We have let wild strawberries and spearmint fill to be a ground cover to decrease weeds in open areas/walkways in our permaculture area with fruit trees, Currants, raspberries, blackberries honey berries, numerous culinary and medicinal herbs and flowers. If real hot and dry we flood the swales around fruits tress about once a week we use Neem oil as dormant spray on fruit trees and as needed but rarely need as the plants that prevent pests and ones that draw beneficial sleep stuff in check.