So much cool permie info!

Benjamin Fahrer from PC Designs was in today and he's our amazing permaculture guru.
There's so much to share with you I'll just do bullet points.

* We have enough water, we just need to limit consumption
* Ask yourself, how much do you need versus how much do you want.. they're usually different answers.
* Follow the way nature works with soil... it doesn't till... it mulches and layers.
* Generally small irrigation stores have better products for drip systems, moisture sensors and timers then larger places like Home Depot... locally go to Martens Irrigation or Scotts Valley Sprinkler.
* Most plants don't like full sun, even if it says that on the tag... a bit of shade is a good thing.
* All of our buildings, residential and commercial need to harvest rainwater, use greywater, think about our watershed and use ponds to filter.
* Keyline Design is making cuts into soil to distribute water over the land in a way that slows it down,spreads it out and sinks it in... which is a major Permaculture prinicple.
* Don't use fresh water to deal with you poo... check out the Humanure Hand Book at http://www.jenkinspublishing.com/humanure.html... where you can get 255 pages of crap.
It says that on the website, I swear!!
*Check out: http://www.carbonfarmersofamerica.com/ - learn how farmers are changing climate change.
www.wiserearth.com - type in permaculture and go for a ride!
oasisdesign.net - Art Ludwig's site for endless grey water tips
http://www.bioneers.org/node/1446 - this is a cool interview with John Todd about Living Systems... turning grey and black water into usable water.
http://www.onegreenworld.com/ - for tree graphing info
http://www.soilandhealth.org/ - a great site from Australia on Soil building

That's it! But you can get more info from Ben if you write psdesigns@earthlink.net
Happy gardening,
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