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Engineering
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Build Your Own Houseplant System
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Propagation
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12 Ways to Reduce Grow Costs
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Rainwater Irrigation
Rainwater Irrigation Systems.
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DIY Blumat Pots & Beds Irrigation
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Harvesting Tools
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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
"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
Start Planning Now And Dramatically Increase Your Return On Investments
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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
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
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?
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
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
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
Unsustainable agriculture and inefficient urban water use causes or contributes to erosion, floods, fires, desertification, water and crop loss.
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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
Study Proves a 24% Higher Yield!
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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
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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 (+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 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
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
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
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Better Irrigation = Less Heat Waves (DRIER SOIL CREATES HOTTER AMBIENT AIR TEMPERATURES.) The more moisture we keep in dry...