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Water your Trees with Greywater

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Gardening, Trees, Water and Power, Water Conservation
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...nd links on the subject. Laundry to Landscape International greywater guru Art Ludwig has a set of free plans on his website Oasis Designs for a laundry to landscape system. I’ve built this system at our house and at a neighbors’ and can attest to its ease of construction and functionality. Make sure you read through Ludwig’s directions in their entirety or else you’ll blow out your machine’s water pump. And note that some California cities such a...

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Fifty Shades of Gray Water

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Water and Power
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...ut of the three American experts: Brad Lancaster and Greywater Action (the artists formerly known as the Guerrilla Graywater Girls). Art Ludwig rolls with “grey water.” As for our competition to swap out the unappetizing “greywater” for a sexier new word, Root Simple reader Johnny (who has a terrific blog you should read called Granola Shotgun) suggests “H2Over” or “Rewater.” I’m going to go with “Rewater.” At least it would eliminate the grey vs....

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Saturday Tweets: Lyme Disease, Unuselessness and a Plum Mystery

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Saturday Linkages
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...n Rant https://t.co/234f22E1gD — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 5, 2018 The art of the unuseless: https://t.co/nTa3gH6iRW — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 5, 2018 Great new resource–free online Sustainable Food Systems Sourcebook includes degree programs, funding, conferences, online training, certificates, research, publishers, more. https://t.co/5GPl6uJlHq — Rachel Surls (@RachelSurls) May 2, 2018 Luther Burbank Left Behind a Plum Mystery… Now Rac...

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Installing Solid Wood Flooring

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Design
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...e installed a wood floor and here’s what I learned: Layout is the hardest part. Rent a pneumatic nailer. The last time I installed a floor I used a manual nailer and learned that driving 1,000 nails takes a toil on your joints. Get a piece of scrap wood and practice using the pneumatic nailer. You can also use this test piece to adjust the air pressure. If you’re installing a pre-finished floor, as I was yesterday, be careful not to bang up the fl...

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