Guerrilla Gurl » water http://www.guerrillagurl.com Plant a garden, put down roots! Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:40:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 How to Plan Your Ecological Water-Harvesting System http://www.guerrillagurl.com/2009/05/how-to-plan-your-ecological-water-harvesting-system/ http://www.guerrillagurl.com/2009/05/how-to-plan-your-ecological-water-harvesting-system/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 07:52:14 +0000 Chelsea Green Full Feed http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/how-to-plan-your-ecological-water-harvesting-system/ ]]> 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 [...]

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]]> http://www.guerrillagurl.com/2009/05/marsh-plants-that-clean-grey-water/feed/ 0 Mulching vs. Lawns at the Arboretum http://www.guerrillagurl.com/2009/03/mulching-vs-lawns-at-the-arboretum/ http://www.guerrillagurl.com/2009/03/mulching-vs-lawns-at-the-arboretum/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:15:23 +0000 LA Arboretum News http://www.arboretum.org/index.php/news/mulching_vs._lawns_at_the_arboretum/#When:02:15:23Z For many years mulching practices at the Arboretum were carried on only to a limited extent. One reason was that since the Arboretum is adjacent to the Santa Anita Race Track, a great number of residents in the immediate area have always been conscious of flies and have related any kind of mulching and composting with fly infestation. Many times in the past, the Arboretum has been able to obtain manure as well as bedding material from race tracks, yet, despite thorough inspections by the County Health Department, the fly problem has been erroneously blamed on the Arboretum.

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