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  • Engineering

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  • Build Your Own Houseplant System

    Build Your Own Houseplant System

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  • Propagation

    Propagation

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  • 12 Ways to Reduce Grow Costs

    12 Ways to Reduce Grow Costs

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  • Rainwater Irrigation

    Rainwater Irrigation

    Rainwater Irrigation Systems.

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  • DIY Blumat Pots & Beds Irrigation

    DIY Blumat Pots & Beds Irrigation

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  • Harvesting Tools

    Harvesting Tools

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  • Grass to Garden Photo Journey

    Grass to Garden Photo Journey

    In 2005, Sustainable Village moved and became care-taker for this grass-covered backyard. We replaced the old, splintery deck with Trex (95% recycled/reclaimed), and decided to...

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  • Slow Water

    Slow Water

    "Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. But against the hard and the strong, nothing outdoes it." - Lao Tzu, Tao...

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  • Cash Crop ROI

    Cash Crop ROI

    Start Planning Now And Dramatically Increase Your Return On Investments

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  • What are Preset Carrots?

    What are Preset Carrots?

    Setting up a Blumat sensor involves adjusting the sensors before you connect them with the rest of your system.

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  • Cash Crop ROI Calculator

    Cash Crop ROI Calculator

    Your Savings Start With Increased Yields... and extend to many other benefits — conserving water, reducing nutrient expenses, cutting labor costs, eliminating wastewater discharge, avoiding...

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  • Food Security and Climate Change

    Food Security and Climate Change

    Not since the dinosaur era 65 million years ago has the world experienced this degree of extinctions - 1000 times faster than normal and we've...

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  • What is Living Soil?

    What is Living Soil?

    In healthy soil, fungal and bacterial networks prevent nutrients from washing away and keep them close and available to the plant roots. 

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  • Kill Your Lawn

    Kill Your Lawn

    Lawns became popular and sustainable in that rainy, moist climate. Unfortunately however, they also became popular in warmer and drier places like North America.

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  • Sustainable Development Goals

    Sustainable Development Goals

    Too often, we see big projects like the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and feel glad that some big organizations work on these goals... but we don't see...

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  • Regenerative Water Use

    Regenerative Water Use

    Unsustainable agriculture and inefficient urban water use causes or contributes to erosion, floods, fires, desertification, water and crop loss. 

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  • Firescaping

    Firescaping

    Scientists expect the risk of large wildfires to increase sixfold during the next 20 years.

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  • Harvest Results: Blumat vs. Hand Watering

    Harvest Results: Blumat vs. Hand Watering

    Study Proves a 24% Higher Yield!

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  • Propagating with Capillary Mats

    Propagating with Capillary Mats

    The less soil in a pot, the more important keeping up with irrigation becomes.

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  • Best Ways to Water Houseplants

    Best Ways to Water Houseplants

    Overwatering remains the main offender but of course plants also have problems from not watering enough.

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  • Super-Flex Drip Tube

    Super-Flex Drip Tube

    Super-Flex Drip Tube Super-Flex drip tube, made of silicone, offers numerous benefits and solutions for irrigation systems. Its unique properties make it an ideal choice...

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  • Regenerative Agriculture

    Regenerative Agriculture

    Regenerative Agriculture The agricultural lobby became the most powerful lobby in the U.S. and - much like the old tobacco and the current coal lobbies...

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  • Agrivoltaic Irrigation

    Agrivoltaic Irrigation

    Agrivoltaic Irrigation We need more solar power, we need more good farmland Although drought, fire, and erosion continue to decrease good farmland, populations continue to...

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  • Alternatives to Grass Lawns

    Alternatives to Grass Lawns

    Alternatives to Grass Lawns The Challenge During the last year, California (like an increasing number of states) experienced one of the most severe droughts in...

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  • Best Gifts for Plant Lovers

    Best Gifts for Plant Lovers

    Best Gifts for Plant Lovers Our Top Suggestions Invest in gifts that your friends and family will appreciate and use. These selections represent some of...

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  • Bonsai Watering

    Bonsai Watering

    Bonsai Watering The less soil in a pot, the more frequent watering is necessary. More than 75% of newly purchased Bonsai trees reportedly die within...

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  • Capillary Mat Systems

    Capillary Mat Systems

    Capillary Mat Systems A revolutionary new system that stops most transplant shock, speeds up harvest, and preserves the living soil web. Bottomless pots and capillary mats...

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  • Desert Irrigation

    Desert Irrigation

    Desert Irrigation Help Stop and Reverse Desertification From Desert to Farm in Abu Dhabi Transform your desert into a beautiful, productive garden. Installing Grow Stream...

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  • Greenhouse Irrigation

    Greenhouse Irrigation

    Greenhouse Irrigation (+Hoop Houses & Cold Frames) Greenhouses let us protect plants from extreme weather - freezing, heat waves, hail, high winds, and too much...

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  • Health and Houseplants

    Health and Houseplants

    Health and Houseplants The Best Therapy? Talk to your plants!  In many ways, the world seems to have gone crazy. The politics, the environmental disasters,...

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  • Houseplant Watering

    Houseplant Watering

    Best Ways to Water Houseplants Mistaken watering methods define the main cause for houseplants dying. Overwatering remains the main offender but of course plants also...

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  • Monstera Care

    Monstera Care

    How to Care for Monstera Houseplants Introduction: With almost 50 species, the Monstera genus is one of the most popular houseplants. Fast and easy-to-grow, they typically get between one...

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  • Living Soil Irrigation

    Living Soil Irrigation

    Instead of only paying attention to the plants, the Living Soil method focuses on creating healthy soils that take care of the plants for you.

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  • Off-Grid Irrigation

    Off-Grid Irrigation

    Off-Grid Irrigation Irrigation for Remote Places and Developing Countries Often, places with some of the most critical and important irrigation needs don't have electricity, fuel,...

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  • Permaculture Irrigation

    Permaculture Irrigation

    Permaculture Irrigation   "Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor;...

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  • Rooftop Gardens

    Rooftop Gardens

    Rooftop Gardens As our population grows at the same time as our suitable agricultural land decreases, food supplies diminish at the same time as the...

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  • Root Demand Irrigation

    Root Demand Irrigation

    Root Demand Irrigation Subsurface systems without the high cost, waste, or extra work Modern irrigation systems let us grow many more kinds of crops and...

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  • Spring Garden Planning

    Spring Garden Planning

    Spring Garden Planning Plan Your Garden Now! The Most Time-Saving, Efficient, and Lowest Cost Systems Many of us have more gardening goals than time to...

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  • Sustainable Cities

    Sustainable Cities

    Sustainable Cities REQUEST A FREE DESIGN AND QUOTE Sustainable Village seeks to provide enlightened irrigation solutions for modern urban settings. School and Community Gardens Teaming...

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  • Water Funding Resources

    Water Funding Resources

    Water Funding Resources During the November 2022 United Nations Climate Change conference in Egypt, president Biden announced new rules for federal contractors who receive more than $7.5...

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  • Rainwater Collection Systems

    Rainwater Collection Systems

    The importance, the need, for both residential and commercial rainwater collection systems becomes more and more critical with every news article about water shortages.   

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  • Types of Drip Irrigation Fittings

    Types of Drip Irrigation Fittings

    Types of Drip Irrigation Fittings Insert or Barbed FittingsInsert fittings have been around for a long time, are most familiar and easy to find. They work...

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  • Protecting Your Home and Wallet with Firescaping

    Protecting Your Home and Wallet with Firescaping

    Protecting Your Home and Wallet with Firescaping Reducing Fire Risk in Dry Climates If you live in a dry climate, you know that wildfires can...

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  • Introducing Agrivoltaic Irrigation

    Introducing Agrivoltaic Irrigation

    Introducing Agrivoltaic Irrigation The Future of Sustainable Agriculture Integrating renewable energy and agriculture represents a major step toward creating a more sustainable future. Agrivoltaic irrigation...

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  • Carbon Farming

    Carbon Farming

    Carbon Farming A major key to both farming profitability and pollution-solutions Our Planet's Metabolic Network Fungi - one of our planet's first life forms -...

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  • Regenerative Farming

    Regenerative Farming

    Regenerative Farming Conventional farming techniques using chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and unconstrained water use have created systems that produce unprecedented amounts of low-cost crops. (According to...

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  • Growing Styles

    Growing Styles

    Growing Styles Blumats work for almost every kind of growing style, but the system design changes a little with the different types. Organic Systems for...

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  • Biochar for Houseplants

    Biochar for Houseplants

    Biochar for Houseplants The more we use, the more soil and planetary health While the recognition and appreciation of biochar's many benefits to both the soil and...

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  • Drier Soil = Hotter Air

    Drier Soil = Hotter Air

    Drier Soil = Hotter Air Better Irrigation = Less Heat Waves (DRIER SOIL CREATES HOTTER AMBIENT AIR TEMPERATURES.) The more moisture we keep in dry...

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