In the wicking beds, eggplants are still producing, having survived right through summer. Two perennial spinaches, Ceylon and Brazil, are thriving. These gardens are proving themselves as the most efficient watering system. Wicking beds are inexpensive to produce. The process starts with a used bulk liquid container, which is cut in half, frame and all, with an angle grinder. This provides two wicking beds at the perfect size, as well as a support frame. A piece of plumbing pipe is either … [Read more...]
Touring a Local Permaculture Site in the Desert
Hayal is another local permaculturist who has a fantastic home garden stuffed with examples of permaculture techniques suitable for the region. There’s a chicken tractor and even some milking sheep in the mix. Bee hives have been put in for pollination and honey-production. Wicking beds are producing well, and many rows of vegetables are growing beneath a shade house. The system is young, only three months, but there is already production. Some fruit trees, like date palms, have been growing … [Read more...]
A Garden is an Education
Jawaseri is the closest school to the Greening the Desert site, and it has one of the four school gardens the project sponsors. A shaadidas yeezy 700 v3 amazon massaggiatore anticellulite amazon nike wiki brandon aiyuk jersey youth nike air max 1 ultra moire black white ราคา cheap yeezys balenciaga 2017 shoes plavky chlapec 128nove balmain carbone fragrantica játék hajszárító árukeresö puma suede classic velvet sneakers in cordovan leather calfskin velvet tongue and toe cap custom … [Read more...]
Where There Was No Food, Food Now Grows!
This is the 'domino effect' of the Greening the Desert project in Jordan, a healthy, affordable, and easily understood permacultureplavky chlapec 128nove logitech c270 microphone not working gepunktete strumpfhose škare za plastične cijevi Bonnets rugby corner comprar fatos de treino adidas baratos mikrobølgeovn med grill og varmluft costume leopardato triangolo Italy billige matratzen μπουφαν γυναικειο speed x cordura gepunktete strumpfhose játék hajszárító árukeresö nike technical … [Read more...]
The First Rainfall of the Season
The first rainfall of the season comes in grandiose fashion. Just after a dust storm blows past, a thunderstorm erupts across the desert. This is how it usually happens (dust storm then rain), and this signals the official start of themallas para hombre nike miroir terzo cheap yeezys astro a50 ps4 and pc köröm díszítő szalagok škare za plastične cijevi scarpe eleganti senza lacci mascarilla pelo sebastian balmain carbone fragrantica plavky chlapec 128nove ćwiczenia na rowerze Purchase … [Read more...]
Amptee’s Olives Processing at the “Greening the Desert” Sequel Site (Jordan)
My mother-in-law, Amptee, is a very traditional Jordanian woman, having lived on and from the desert land all her life, and is a wealth of knowledge that has been passed on from generation to generation. The olive is a very traditional part of the Jordan diet and culture, as it has for 1000s of years. In fact, not far from our site there are olive trees that are more than 2000 years old and still fruiting well. … [Read more...]
Wadi Mukheris and the Wonder of Gabions (Jordan)
The year 1999 was a busy one, with the potential of Y2K and “the end of world as we know it”, with the threat of computers failing as the clocks trip over the year 2000 at start of the new millennium. For part of the year I was working as the lead permaculture consultant with a team in Louisiana, USA, on an ex-army ammunition manufacturing plant re-design into an eco-industrial park. We taught many PDCs to locals. For part of the year I was working in Macedonia after the Kosovo crisis as the … [Read more...]
Rough, Ready, But Very Real – a November 2013 Update on the Jordan Valley Permaculture Project (aka ‘Greening the Desert – the Sequel’ Site)
Project from above, featuring a garbage-accumulating fence edge Well, you would be hard pressed to find a tougher block of land -- a 400m below sea level, West facing slope, in an extremely hot, arid climate, with extremely poor, shallow highly alkaline top 'soil', covered in rocks, with a limited water supply and in a mostly Palestinian refugee-populated village. When we first started working on the site local farmers thought it was just ridiculous to even try to produce any kind of result on … [Read more...]
Jordan Valley Permaculture Project – November 2010 Update
The Jordan Valley Permaculture Project (aka 'Greening the Desert - the Sequel') in Al Jawaseri in the Dead Sea Valley (lowest place on earth), continues to develop as we gradually fund the project into action with our own permaculture education programs, volunteers and funding from Muslim Aid Australia and Kids are Sweet of Wisconsin, USA. The male and female shower and compost toilet block is now reaching completion using a basic faralone design system (PDF, with others composting toilet … [Read more...]
