Desert permaculture

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:.

From recycled gray water to a chicken tractor on steroids, the Greening the Desert project is using all tools possible to make the dry lands bloom.

"The abundance of this place, the songs of its people and its birds,will be health and wisdom and indwelling light." - Wendell Berry, Kentucky farmer, philosopher and poet from Work Song, Part 2, A VisionYou may review and print the complete set of r

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!

We’re out in the hot Sonoran Desert, somewhere near Tucson, Arizona. It's hot. Very hot. I’m down to a small amount of water in my bottle and it’s disappearing fast. I’m starting to think one could go

This article by Marta Vidal was first published in Middle East Eye Olive, lemon and palm trees provide shade over the small garden where Abu ElHajj recently started growing carrots, tomatoes, beans an

Want to grow a vegetable garden in the desert? Here are some tips to grow in the high and low desert and have successful crops.

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

A certain coal-strewn road in Madrid, New Mexico -- the remnants of a now defunct railway. Alternately barren and spectacular, the southwest United States has piqued the imagination of Americans and p

One of the easiest ways to slow rainwater and allow it to infiltrate, for everyone’s benefit.