Tag Archive for ‘water conservation’
HOMESTEADER HYGIENE
Growing up in water and energy conservative household it never crossed our minds that our lifestyle wasn’t normal. A move to city and I found out that daily showers (and shoes – among other things) were a norm here in the city.
HOMESTEAD FINANCES
You know that old saying “Self sufficient is as self sufficient does.” Ok, not really old but a new take on Gumpisms. How can we be “self sufficient” on only 1/10 of an acre (if an acre is $1.00 we are growing our groceries on 10 cents)?
WATER SAVING PROJECTS
Water! Water is vital to the all aspects of the urban homestead and, though we are dependent on the municipal water source for most of our water (digging a well is out of the question – looked into it), we do our best to conserve what water we do use. On the homestead in New Zealand, [...]
LOW IMPACT LIVING
Outdoor solar shower circa 2003 The weather’s been very pleasant lately – very odd thing to say in July. Saturday night we witness a lightning storm in the mountains just north of us as some tropical moisture moved up from Mexico. We didn’t get any rain though. With the warmer temperatures, the indoor bathing facilities [...]
OLLAS
We received another shipment of ollas today. For those of you who have ollas on backorder – the wait is over! Thanks for your patience. We’ve been increasing this effective clay pot irrigation method here on the urban homestead. To conserve even more water this season, we are adding ollas many of our raised beds [...]
USING OLLAS
Olla gardening by Curtis W. Smith, NMSU Extension Horticulture Specialist Irrigation of plants by means of ollas, unglazed pottery jars, is an ancient practice. It was brought to the American Southwest by Spanish settlers and adapted to local gardens by Native American gardeners as well as by the Spanish settlers. Over time, modern systems were [...]
WEB & PRINT FEATURES
Spring garden (btw, this is an undoctored photo… one of those RARE cloud filled blue sky days) Web Nods Urban Farm Revolution via Globally Green Living Little Homestead in the City: The Self-Sufficient Dervaes Family via Apartment Therapy Print Feature A GREEN REVOLUTION: ECO LIFESTYLE LESSONS (Pasadena Magazine April 2008 P. 87) Good Green Living [...]
