- Wicking beds are a gardening system that allows plants to be grown with high water and nutrient efficiency in areas with sandy soils and long dry periods. They work by having a water reservoir underneath the planting medium that draws water up through capillary action and evaporation to hydrate the plants.
- They can be easily constructed using materials like plastic liners, barrels, or bricks to create a level bottom planter with a reservoir below. Various porous materials like gravel or broken bricks can be used to fill the reservoir space to store water.
- Wicking beds have been shown to greatly reduce water use for gardening while providing a consistent supply of nutrients and moisture to plants through the passive water movement between the reservoir and
Lawn Liberation is one way to help make your home
a place of production rather than consumption and uses ideas from the permaculture design principles.
This presentation shows how sheet mulching can be used to transform an unproductive lawn into a bountiful fruit and vegetable garden in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Lawn Liberation is one way to help make your home
a place of production rather than consumption and uses ideas from the permaculture design principles.
This presentation shows how sheet mulching can be used to transform an unproductive lawn into a bountiful fruit and vegetable garden in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Rain Barrels: Harvesting the Heavens Saving StreamsCHEARS
Matt Berres is the Director of Maintenance Operations for Greenbelt Homes Inc. (GHI). He is responsible for developing and implementing GHI’s stormwater management program and supporting efforts to promote sustainability throughout the coop. He has led efforts to encourage rain barrel usage in Greenbelt and designed and implemented numerous bioretention rain gardens in the community. Prior to joining GHI, Matt led watershed education and restoration programs for the Potomac Conservancy, a regional non-profit dedicated to protecting the Potomac River watershed. Matt will talk about GHI’s rain barrel program and its other storm water management activities to reduce the coop’s pollution impact on the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
This slideshow discusses how to design a tunnel to best fit your needs and once you buy that tunnel, how to set it up for maximum efficiency. Come away with strategies for 100% utilization of your space, energy efficiency, using trolleys, crop stacking, efficient heating, innovative venting, removable endwalls, and more.
Rain Barrels: Harvesting the Heavens Saving StreamsCHEARS
Matt Berres is the Director of Maintenance Operations for Greenbelt Homes Inc. (GHI). He is responsible for developing and implementing GHI’s stormwater management program and supporting efforts to promote sustainability throughout the coop. He has led efforts to encourage rain barrel usage in Greenbelt and designed and implemented numerous bioretention rain gardens in the community. Prior to joining GHI, Matt led watershed education and restoration programs for the Potomac Conservancy, a regional non-profit dedicated to protecting the Potomac River watershed. Matt will talk about GHI’s rain barrel program and its other storm water management activities to reduce the coop’s pollution impact on the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
This slideshow discusses how to design a tunnel to best fit your needs and once you buy that tunnel, how to set it up for maximum efficiency. Come away with strategies for 100% utilization of your space, energy efficiency, using trolleys, crop stacking, efficient heating, innovative venting, removable endwalls, and more.
Much more efficient irrigation systems have been studied in the low desert. Many are more efficient than drip and better suited for remote areas and environmental restoration.
Basic presentation that can be used for schools interested in school gardens aimed for Qld Australia extensive national grants links,feel free to use and improve
Titles Included:- Background- Liquid waste and its types- On site liquid waste treatment techniquesa) at household level b) at industrial level.
Septic tank, soak tank, biotanks, Package Type Anaerobic Filter System
Package Contact Aeration System
Package Anaerobic Filter–Contact Aeration System.
Row Covers & Gardens; Gardening Guidebook for Rockingham County, New Hampshire ~ Exeter Area Garden Club, University of New Hampshire ~ For more information, Please see websites below:
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46.Kitchen gardening and containers gardening A Series of Lectures By Mr. ...Mr.Allah Dad Khan
A Series of Lectures By Mr. Allah Dad Khan Former DG Agriculture Extension KPK , Provincial Project Director CMP II MINFAl Islamabad and Visiting Professor the University of Agriculture Peshawar Pakistan
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In tribute to the most inspiring man who i have encountered on planet so far, a wonderful friend and constant source of brilliant ideas and resources. We are so much poorer without his presence now he has passed away, yet so much richer for knowing him, from learning from him. Your work will live on in everything I do. Go well my friend.
Awareness lecture series conducted in Anuradhapura (31.01.2019) and Trincomalee (05.02.2019) organized by Climate Resilient Integrated Water Management Project - UNDP
In the midst of the toxic atmosphere of Watts, seeds are sprouting, organic gardens are thriving, young people are discovering a vocation, and healthy, whole foods are becoming part of everyday life.
Good Food Helps your Children Excel in SchoolSeeds
Good Food = Academic Success for your Children~
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Over 120 books and web sites on Education, Children's Health and Academic Success, Organic Food Recipes, Organic Non-Sugar Sweeteners, School Lunches ~ Over 300 books on Organic Gardening and Heirloom Gardening ~ Over 200 books on Sustainable Technology and Alternative Housing ~ Over 30 books on Renewable Energy ~ Many Free PDF files on Rain Gardens, Roof Gardens, Aeroponic Gardening, Rainwater Harvesting, Waterwise Gardening, Green Eco Churches, Vegetable Oil Cars, Organic Gardening Guides, Ram Pumps, Companion Planting, Garden Therapy Manuals, Faith Healing
Edible Schoolyards = Academic Success & Gardening with ChildrenSeeds
Organic Edible Schoolyards = Academic Success + Healthy Students ~
INCLUDES LINKS TO:
Over 80 books and web sites dealing with Gardening with Children - Over 300 books on Organic Gardening - Over 200 books on Sustainable Technology - Over 50 books on Renewable Energy - Many Free PDF files on Rain Gardens, Roof Gardens, Aeroponic Gardening, Rainwater Harvesting, Waterwise Gardening, Green Eco Churches, Vegetable Oil Cars, Organic Gardening Guides, Ram Pumps, Companion Planting, 7 - Garden Therapy Manuals
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How to Split Bills in the Odoo 17 POS ModuleCeline George
Bills have a main role in point of sale procedure. It will help to track sales, handling payments and giving receipts to customers. Bill splitting also has an important role in POS. For example, If some friends come together for dinner and if they want to divide the bill then it is possible by POS bill splitting. This slide will show how to split bills in odoo 17 POS.
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
The Indian economy is classified into different sectors to simplify the analysis and understanding of economic activities. For Class 10, it's essential to grasp the sectors of the Indian economy, understand their characteristics, and recognize their importance. This guide will provide detailed notes on the Sectors of the Indian Economy Class 10, using specific long-tail keywords to enhance comprehension.
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This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
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The map views are useful for providing a geographical representation of data. They allow users to visualize and analyze the data in a more intuitive manner.
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In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
This is a presentation by Dada Robert in a Your Skill Boost masterclass organised by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) on Saturday, the 25th and Sunday, the 26th of May 2024.
He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
Garden Wicking Beds = Water Wise Gardening for Dry Lands & Summer Droughts
1. Intelligently Designed Urban Foodscapes
High Yield, Water and Nutrient wise, gardening systems.
Wicking Beds
Presentation from HMA WA - By Charles Otway
2. Why Wick ?
• Thousands of Perth residents want to and need
to grow food in their own homes and yards.
• However, Perth garden soils are:
– Highly leaching sand
– With little to no TOC and mineralisation
– Subjected to long hot dry summers
• Evaporation rates exceed Rainfall 9 months of the
year. So for only 3 months of the year you can
grow veggies in the soil without wasting water.
3. What is a Wicking Bed
– A garden bed that has a water holding reservoir
directly underneath the growing medium/soil.
– No more sophisticated than a self watering pot.
– Colin Austin in the mid 90’s coined the term and
idea of the wicking beds. His designs extend to
carbon sequestering and producing in broader
scale inground wicking row agricultuural systems.
See www.waterright.com.au
– Many commercial examples – Nics Veggie Pots,
Self watering Pots, Ross Mars wicking corro beds.
4. How does it work
• Water and Nutrients leaching/draining below the
vegetables roots are caught by the reservoir.
• This reservoir of water and nutrients then feeds the
‘liquid fertiliser’ back to the soil/plants via capillary
(wicking) and evaporation and condensation.
• Mulching of the surface in warm months keeps water
losses to bare minimum making wicking beds extremely
water efficient.
• Similarly as all nutrients stay in the soil/bed the systems
have low fertiliser needs and extremely low wastage. It
also encourages organic management due to the risk of
accumulating salts and other toxins.
7. DIY Design – The Liner
• The key principle is to created a level closed
bottom garden bed with what ever material is
cheap, available and lest toxic.
• Small Beds - Bathtubs, Broccoli (Poly)boxes, ½
olive and wine barrels.
• Larger Beds -Plastic lined in-ground beds with
200 micro builders plastic or pond liner.
• Cost vs Strength and Cost vs Timeframe
8. DIY DESIGN – The Reservoir Filler
• What you use as your reservoir filler is the most
‘argued’ part of wicking beds. Gravel, Sand, Vol Clay,
woodchips or simply a structural void and wick.
• While the wicking or capillary water movement
mechanism is the most discussed (and coins the name)
I have found that evaporation and condensation is also
a effective water transporter within the reservoir zone.
• This means that the medium does not need to wick for
the system to work, as long as your bed is fairly airtight
the water reservoir will evaporate water up and
condense on to the soil surface above.
9. DIY DESIGN – The Reservoir Filler
• Eitherway one of the best free mediums is
waste/broken maxi bricks. These are highly
porous like vol clay, wick well, have a huge
surface area and are free at any building site. Old
style bricks are not as effective.
• The filler can be anything with the structural
strength to hold the soil up, and enough void
space between each particle to allow a decent
volume of water in-between is suitable.
• Woodchips/mulch breaks down so needs yearly
maintenance to rebuild the reservoir.
12. Limitations
• Deep rooted perennial and root crops are not
suited to a 30cm deep soil with water beneath.
• Ensure your drain is between the layers and
works and can be checked/observed.
• Only use organic low strength fertiliser and soil
amendments. No strong artificial salt fertilisers.
• The beds will get and stay very damp in winter so
crops like fennel, dill, sage etc that prefer good
drainage soil will struggle in winter.
13. DIY Design – Optional Extras
• Add a small worm farm or feeding station to
above ground closed wicking beds.
• You can manifold multiple wicking beds.
• Link up a liquid nutrient source to supply the
‘water’. Aquaponics, pond, rainwater tank.
• Installing a float valve and gravity feeding bed
reservoirs ‘on demand’.