Permaculture in the desert

All gardens can benefit from embracing simple permaculture methods like the chop and drop method of mulching. Get started with these plants!

Turn this patch of desert into a lush food forest and encourage my neighbors to do the same. I'm hoping this bamboo will keep me cooler, block sand storms and clean my soil of toxins as well!

Learn to garden and grow organically in the low desert. Tips, tricks, and growing guides custom tailored to Zone 9.

Arizona gardening calls for a permaculture garden design--even in small backyards. Learn great water saving methods for our Phoenix summers. Vegetable gardening can be hard in our harsh desert climate, but with the right methods, we live in one of the best states!

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…

One rock dams are essential in the desert! Learn what they are, why they are important, and how to build one.

Gabions are one of the crucial feature elements of dry land landscape water harvesting design. A gabion is a leaky rock dam wall built in a wadi, valley canyon or water flow, at a point where there wo

Is it any wonder with daily reminders of the widening disparity between exponential population growt

The Greening the Desert Project started with the purchase of land about ten years ago, and it expanded slowly until that mounted into exponential growth. Things started at the top, literally, with a l

Current Master Plan Sites PRI Australia, Zaytuna Farm See their project on The Permaculture Global N