The following is an excerpt from Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, Second Edition by Toby Hemenway. It has been adapted for the Web.
Every home has a handy rainwater collection system built right into it: the roof. Rainwater splashes on rooftops, drips into the gutters, sluices through downspouts, and then goes … away, usually [...]
Tag Archives: sustainability
How to Plan Your Ecological Water-Harvesting System
05.05.2009 – 0:52
The Revolution Will Not Be Fertilized!
10.24.2007 – 22:18
Well, October 15th has come and gone, again–the magic, “If your fall cover crops aren’t in the ground by today, give it up” date for the Monterey Bay. Arbitrary?, you betcha! Tempting fate as ever, I am going to stage my own private One Straw Revolution–thank you Mr. Fukuoka–and reinvigorate the native loamy sand of [...]
