Desert farming

Desert farms: Farming is now taking place in the Sahara Desert, using salt water. Yes, you read that right. Green life is bursting forth.

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Improving Soil Fertility with Zaï Farming Zaï farming, a traditional technique used in the Sahel region of Africa, improves soil fertility through several key mechanisms: Concentrating Organic Matter Attracting Termites Improving Water Infiltration Forming Fertile Pockets Overall, zaï farming is an ingenious, low-cost way to rehabilitate degraded drylands and improve soil fertility using local resources.

Desertification is a serious problem facing numerous countries in the world today. Various measures have been taken to counter the negative effects, with some providing better results than others. A farmer in Burkina Faso looked to his ancestors and came up with an innovative solution.

You'll Want To Visit The Quaint Pistachio Farm In The Heart Of The New Mexico Desert

I've estimated that we could plant about 2,000 prickly pear around our perimeter fence and within 3-5 years, it will be an impenetrable wall of spines. Here's a few of the different fruits and species in our area:.

Are you considering establishing a high desert food forest? Gina is, and today we consider what needs to happen to turn her tough situation into abundance!

It seems like there might already be a thread here on this topic -- someplace. It came up over at HomesteadingToday, though, and about it, and thought it would make a good discussion over here, too. There's someone at HT who is looking into buying land on the Terlingua Ranch in the Big Bend area of Texas -- less than ten inches of rain a year, and over six months of 90 degrees or more during the daytime. Don't know about the soil, but water has to come from rain collection or be hauled…

Repair your worn out garden with these 8 tips for how to improve desert soils

Raised field construction (from Clark Erickson) Raised fields -- an ancient form of agriculture, practiced by the Mayas, Aztecs, and the ancestors of the Incas -- was one of the most productive preindustrial farming systems anywhere. These fields were abandoned in most areas centuries ago, and largely forgotten. In the 1980s archaeologists excavated ancient raised fields around Lake Titicaca in the Andes. Based on their findings, modern rural peoples started rebuilding raised fields. They…

Growing vegetables in the desert | Las Vegas Review-Journal

A decades-old neighborhood project in Tucson provides food to residents as well as shade to cool streets in the third-fastest warming city in the US

Trying to garden in a dry region? Think it can’t be done? Geoff Lawton will beg to differ. Using permaculture methods he and his team created a green oasis in the middle of a Jordan desert. Adapt some of these permaculture methods for use in your small garden!

Our food supply has been corrupted. It seems that every few weeks there is yet another report of e-coli in our beef, salmonella in our peanut butter,...

desert permaculture design (greening the desert forum at permies)

This guide to desert gardening follows the success story of a gardener who transformed desert soil into a thriving garden of fruit, edible flowers and vegetable. She discusses lessons learned over the year as she overcomes obstacles to desert gardening. Follow these tested gardening tips and advice. Improve your soil to improve your garden.