Articles
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Permaculture Irrigation
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Desert Irrigation
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Living Soil Irrigation
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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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Build It Yourself — Blumat Irrigation Systems
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Harvesting Tools
Our Harvesting Tools category centers around one of the most game-changing products we've come across: the DriFlower Hang Harvesting System. Designed to dramatically improve workflow...
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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 Tropf Sensors?
We now offer Blumat sensors that have been preset to hold your soil at the ideal moisture levels. When you receive your Blumat sensor, they only...
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Cash Crop ROI
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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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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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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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 School and Community Gardens Teaming up with schools and communities to share knowledge and foster the...
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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...
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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 In most of Colorado (easier in the NE part), beyond irrigation design and supply, we can help with installing systems, making berms and...
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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.Tell us how we...
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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...
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Vacation-Watering Houseplants
Vacation-Watering Houseplants On the road again? As the days of summer begin to wind down and the last chances to travel shrink before another school...
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Nature as Best Friend
Nature as Best Friend Technology brings greater convenience, comfort, capacity, and access to both necessities and frivolous luxuries. Technology also tends to isolate and alienate...
