Oliver Aurand

With the low pressure I am having to run the water for up to 3 hours since it goes downwards so much instead of soaking out sideways. With proper pressure I should be able to water for only, say 30 minutes, maybe an hour...as far as I understand.

Hey everybody!

So I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with using municipal water for a sizable market garden ( I have over an acre and some rows that are 100 feet). We have a decent riser that has I believe a 2" pipe going to it but the blocks are all spread out and just have garden hoses going from the riser to individual blocks. It takes several hours to get a good soaking with this system and most of the blocks just be split into sections of 8-12 rows as well.

This is my first year on the plot and I'm realizing the water cost has been prohibitive. I've come across a few potential options such as using a booster pump (or two or...) or running hundreds of feet of poly tubing to each block to maybe create a bit less friction loss. Has anyone had any experience with this? What did you do? How about anyone ever use a chlorine filter... What kind?

Thinking of maybe switching this plot over to mainly growing perennial herbs anyway but would be nice to fix some of this either way. Thanks in advance for your help and happy growing!

Hi permie gang! I am looking to start a community based farm project with an integrated system of classes, community roundtables, potlucks and food waste diversion. I have a team of former farm coworkers together, one of who should be able to secure some friends and family funding.

We had been leaning towards a nonprofit model that tries to be as financially self sufficient as possible (Social Enterprise) and have been recommended by a local farmer that linked for profit and nonprofit entities might be the way to go. I also remember watching the Bill Mollison PDC video series where he discusses this briefly but had trouble finding more info on this (messaged Tagari and they said there was some info in the book... anyone know how thorough this is?). I found one post here where it mentioned a nonprofit contracting out classes to a for profit and and contracting the selling of its produce but that kinda just leaves me with more questions lol.

So I'm wondering if anyone here has or knows others who have done this, what the pros and cons are, if they have any tips. Also, anyone know a good lawyer with experience with this, if there are big legal limitations with this, etc? Would also welcome general war stories of farm nonprofits or having a public facing farm.

Cheers and Guten Kulturing!

Beau Davidson wrote:14 people have filled out the questionnaire so far.  You are some super fascinating humans!

Just a reminder - Paul needs full-time folks.  If that's not you, there are lots of other things to do, ways to earn, tasks with which to help.  

Opps, I can do full time if you could make note of that on my questionnaire... didn't realize it was full time only.

I just applied! Been following and admiring the work for years and think it would be a dream gig to jam with the band. Cheers and keep up the good work.

Hi, is this position still open?

Why won't it let me buy this one then?

Oliver,

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Hey Paul, this is still not working for me... I even tried to buy it again and it said you already purchased. Help, please take my money!

Jan Hrbek wrote:Hello, here is a result of my experiments with char-drum and apricot prunings. It works quite well !

What kind of container is that Jan? Looks Great!