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Garden ollas save water in the Pacific Northwest
This is such a cool graph, I had to write a post for it. This is the first empirical evidence that ollas reduce water use in Pacific Northwest gardens. In 2009, I watered our 650 sqft of gardens by hand … Continue reading
Posted in cistern, olla irrigation, summer, Sustainability, vegetable garden
Tagged clay pot irrigation, drought, water savings
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Rainwater Cistern Report 2012
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Blanca with southern cistern[/caption]
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In the spring of 2012 we installed three 500-gallon cisterns on our property. For the recap read Starting with Cisterns and Installing Cisterns. The goal of this project was rain water collection for use outdoors.
In the figure below you can see that our water use is typically low in the winter and rises during the summer months as it stops raining and we draw more water for our extensive gardens (grey bars). Continue reading
Posted in cistern, summer, Sustainability, update
Tagged homestead, rainwater collection
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