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I'm currently designing a drip irrigation system for our project in Saudi Arabia but we plan to turn the system off after 3-5 years.  Once our mountain is reforested and we have actual foliage that we...

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Granted, there are scads of ideas of what permaculture is and what irrigation is. For me, based on my knowledge set at this time, it is my arrogant and obnoxiuous opinion that a good permaculture...

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Paul, I'm having a hard time with the title.  We don't replace irrigation with permaculture, we change how we irrigate as part of permaculture. 

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My current irrigation is coal-powered.  That makes me very unhappy. 

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fiveandahalffarm wrote: How is it that irrigation is an industrial/oil based crutch? maybe not any kind of irrigation, but California has massive, subsidized irrigation works so they can grow...

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i'm on 5.5's side of the fence i think... right now i'm procuring plastic pickle barrels to piece together a mostly passive rain catchment/drip system run off a water-timer(zero pressure model) it'll...

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Mt.goat wrote: Thank you Paul for your efforts!If Permaculture is to be anything different than convention,than it better explore the uniqueness of its solutions and offer working examples to the...

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A new podcast with jack on this very topic:  http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/elimination-of-irrigation

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Thank you Paul for your efforts!If Permaculture is to be anything different than convention,than it better explore the uniqueness of its solutions and offer working examples to the public.As a permi...

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apparently ( 8 ) is a smiley face? (

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replacing irrigation with permaculture

I have given this presentation about five or six times.  And I just finished doing a podcast with Jack Spirko about this while gawking at my presentation. Twice I started to write an article and never...

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