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Compost Heat Generator
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Bert:
Quote: Compost can reach a core temperature of 70 degrees Centigrade. Conventional Hot Water systems are thermostatically set to heat the water...
Drip Irrigation no Joke Here!
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GOM:
I live in Valencia County, NM, west central part of the state. We've had 1/2 inch of rainfall since last October! Let me tell you, it is dry with...
Aquaponics
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Old McDonald:
I will not make this post any longer than necessary by adding information about aquaponics. If you are not interested I do not want to waste your...
Broken Apple Tree Seedling
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Gordy:
A few days ago, two stray dogs were fighting in my new apple orchard. One of them, or both, knocked over and broke a beautiful two year old apple...
Water Storage & Drip Irrigation
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GOM:
I'm in the deserts of west central New Mexico. Average annual precip (hopefully) is 10 inches per year. I recently had a deep well put it and lucked...
Garage lighting needs help - 300 watt LED flood light replacement
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solardan1959:
Hi, long story short, I would like to adopt the LED instead of the metal halide. Can we attach the solar component to the core, universe LED flood...
Warm Fall
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GOM:
According to the local tv weather reporters in Albuquerque (25 miles north of me), this has been our second warmest October on record with zero...
Water, Water
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Old McDonald:
Weird thing. New Mexico is basically desert from border to border. However, the state has vast underground aquifers, some many cubic miles in size....
So-called French Inensive Method
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Old McDonald:
From my limited understanding and solely from what I read years ago, the 'French Intensive Method' of farming using raised beds has been around for...
Building a Ferrocement Water Tank
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Garage_Hermit:
Interesting site here... http://www.aprovecho.net/2009/09/constructing-a-ferrocement-tank/ Some mates of mine built a 45-foot ferro ketch, years...
Anyone interested in brainstorming an air to water window screen collector for warming cold frames?
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gaiatechnician:
I now have a passable solar collector in the greenhouse, it transfers heat to water and it does warm the under soil quite a bit. It used to be...
Hugelkultur: Water efficient, raised beds built on top of logs/wood.
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cutnchop:
I have been using this technique the last few years with GREAT success. Beds constructed two years prior were VERY productive this past season,...
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