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	<description>Off grid and building in the Joshua Tree high desert in NorthWest Arizona</description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s SUMMER!</title>
		<link>http://solar-wind-power.org/gardening/2010/07/its-summer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been hoping for rain, but no such luck.  We dream about living &#8220;on top&#8221; where it rains a LOT more.
And we&#8217;ve been incredibly busy with our garden and countless plants and veggies.  I forgot to post the link to our new blog with lots of updates:
High Desert Permaculture
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		<title>Planting update</title>
		<link>http://solar-wind-power.org/gardening/2010/04/planting-update/</link>
		<comments>http://solar-wind-power.org/gardening/2010/04/planting-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The greenhouse addition:
Quite a few tomatoes, 2 cucumbers and a bunch of seedlings.

It&#8217;s really nice to have some &#8220;real&#8221; tomatoes occasionally in winter.  And now the first cherry tomatoes are growing outside in the tomato cage, hardware cloth wrapped with shade cloth to keep the wind out. Soon we&#8217;ll have a LOT more tomatoes.

We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Papercrete for ponds?</title>
		<link>http://solar-wind-power.org/building-materials/papercrete/2010/04/papercrete-for-ponds/</link>
		<comments>http://solar-wind-power.org/building-materials/papercrete/2010/04/papercrete-for-ponds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[papercrete]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was reminded about papercrete at another IC website yesterday and decided to do a little more research.
To my amazement, you can even make PONDS out of papercrete.
We just got 100 lbs of sodium bentonite to waterproof the ditch with the leach rock and I&#8217;m afraid we&#8217;d literally need a ton to waterproof the pond.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The pallet board garden fence</title>
		<link>http://solar-wind-power.org/gardening/2010/03/the-pallet-board-garden-fence/</link>
		<comments>http://solar-wind-power.org/gardening/2010/03/the-pallet-board-garden-fence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We happened to get a bunch of free pallet boards last week, right after we fenced the new garden area with stucco wire.   So we decided to build a little fence to protect the plants from the South wind that blows all summer.

You can see that we painted only the bottom part with linseed oil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Other news</title>
		<link>http://solar-wind-power.org/general/2010/03/other-news/</link>
		<comments>http://solar-wind-power.org/general/2010/03/other-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The timing was PERFECT, just as we got done planting all the trees it SNOWED. It melted by evening, but it was great to get badly needed moisture.



The dogs LOVED the snow and played outside all day.

We THOUGHT that this is Mormon Tea, but several neighbors told us that it&#8217;s not, but don&#8217;t have an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basil</title>
		<link>http://solar-wind-power.org/greenhouse/2010/03/basil/</link>
		<comments>http://solar-wind-power.org/greenhouse/2010/03/basil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[greenhouse]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last year we got the Horizon Herbs basil collection and we finally planted seeds in winter.  We&#8217;ve been growing their holy basil all summer and still have some going, too. These pics are from February, been so busy.

This is the sweet lettuce leaf basil and it tastes a little like anise, which I don&#8217;t particularly like, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planting trees</title>
		<link>http://solar-wind-power.org/trees/2010/03/planting-trees/</link>
		<comments>http://solar-wind-power.org/trees/2010/03/planting-trees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The fruit trees are in the new garden area on top, except for the dwarf peach I&#8217;ve had in a pot for a couple years and we planted it on the hill before we fenced the new garden.  This is a picture taken today, it just started flowering.

We bought trees at Tony&#8217;s in Golden Valley [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irrigation &#8211; drainage &#8211; water harvesting &#8211; permaculture</title>
		<link>http://solar-wind-power.org/permaculture/2010/02/irrigation-drainage-water-harvesting-permaculture/</link>
		<comments>http://solar-wind-power.org/permaculture/2010/02/irrigation-drainage-water-harvesting-permaculture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Irrigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Permaculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water harvesting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During the last storm a couple weeks ago we watched Greening the Desert and several other videos on water harvesting and swales.

We had been hoping for snow, but didn&#8217;t even get as much rain as was forecast.  I read in the Meadview Monitor that the rain seems to stop at the cattle guard.  It POURS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Greening the desert in the Dead Sea Valley</title>
		<link>http://solar-wind-power.org/permaculture/2010/02/video-greening-the-desert-in-the-dead-sea-valley/</link>
		<comments>http://solar-wind-power.org/permaculture/2010/02/video-greening-the-desert-in-the-dead-sea-valley/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Permaculture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Greening the Desert II: Greening the Middle East from Craig Mackintosh on Vimeo.
Geoff and Nadia Lawton started this fantastic project in the Dead Sea Valley.

Greening the Desert II – Final
Aid Projects, Biological Cleaning, Compost, Conservation, Demonstration Sites, Education Centres, Food Forests, Food Plants &#8211; Perennial, Fungi, Irrigation, Plant Systems, Rehabilitation, Salination, Soil Biology, Soil Conservation, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOT weather veggies for the high desert</title>
		<link>http://solar-wind-power.org/food/2010/01/hot-weather-veggies-for-the-high-desert/</link>
		<comments>http://solar-wind-power.org/food/2010/01/hot-weather-veggies-for-the-high-desert/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My own experiences aren&#8217;t very useful as almost everything I grew last year was transplanted way LATE.  I started the seedlings and then had no place to put them until we built the raised beds.
One exception are TOMATOES, been growing those for years.
I&#8217;ve tried some seeds advertised as hot weather tomatoes, but consistently found that cherry tomatoes did best.  And that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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