More Water Sources

COMMENTARY

• Greg discusses Brad Lancaster’s book ‘Rainwater Harvesting For Drylands And Beyond’
  • Creating retention basins to collect rainwater and plant around them
• Harvesting air conditioner condensate is an excellent water source
• Greg explains how inexpensive it can be collecting/distributing rainwater

Deciding ‘What’ & ‘How’ To Grow

COMMENTARY

• Greg explains The Pop Up Nursery Fruit Tree Program & Root Camp
• Starting small
  • Raised bed garden in ground and on wheels to move around
  • Tower gardening. Great for leafy greens
• No soil growing systems with aquaponics and hydroponic
• Creating healthy soil: dirt, water, air space, organic matter and everything living in the soil
• Lehr gardens

RESOURCE FOR HEALTHY SOIL

• Lehr Gardens, effortless regenerative gardening
• Tanks Green Stuff for locally created soil
• Arizona Worm Farm for soil amendments compost, mixes and mulch

Permaculture

COMMENTARY

• The art and science of working with the flow of nature
• How chickens are a great asset in permaculture/stacking functions
  • Eggs
  • Manure for fertilizer
  • Eat bugs and weeds
• Letting weeds grow in the garden
  • Roots do the heavy digging for air space and water
  • Cutting them off to let roots rot for added compost
• Tree basin: 6 foot diameter and 6 inches woody mulch