Que Onda con el Agua???

Publicado por Fran Escobar aqui Diario de una Permacultora en el Chile Post Bicentenario

Este es un tema increíble, el uso del agua en la ciudad... ¿con cuál perfil te identificas?

Caso 1

Te levantas en la mañana, hierves agua y lo que queda se enfría y luego se bota por el desagüe. Te duchas largo para calentar el cuerpo y te enjuagas el cabello dos veces. Prendes el agua del lavamanos para mojar el cepillo antes de echarle pasta y dejar correr el agua hasta que terminas de enjuagarte.

Para lavar los platos, prendes el chorro fuerte de agua, enjuagas cuidadosamente cada plato, vaso y cubierto. Mientras el agua corre vas metiendo cada plato individualmente al lavavillas. Cuando la cocina está impecable, cortas el agua.

AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY

Here you can find an extensive list of publications on agricultural practice including this classic from Yeomans.

Percival Alfred Yeomans (P.A.) was born in Harden N.S.W. in 1905, eldest son of a family of four. In 1928 he married Rita Irene May Barnes, also of Harden. They had three children; Neville born in 1928, Allan in 1931 and Ken in 1947. Rita Yeomans died 1964 and the two original Keyline properties at North Richmond N.S.W. were sold to pay death duties.

P. A. Yeomans married Jane Radek in 1966 and they had two daughters, Julie and Wendy. Following this marriage he undertook the design and construction of a different concept in cultivation equipment. He solved the need for better equipment than the chisel plow to deeply loosen soil without bringing up the subsoil. This equipment was the first rigid shanked vibrating sub-soil cultivating ripper for use with farm tractors. It is many times more efficient than a chisel plow, and is able to loosen more soil to a greater depth using less tractor power.

The Prince Philip Design Award officially recognised the breakthrough success of this equipment in 1974 when P. A. Yeomans Pty Ltd received this coveted award for the Bunyip Slipper Imp with Shakaerator.

Manufacture of the Bunyip Slipper Imp eventually passed from P. A. Yeomans Pty Ltd to the Yeomans Plow Company, which is now based at Molendinar in South-east Queensland. This company is owned and directed by Allan J. Yeomans the second son of P. A. Yeomans. The equipment has undergone further developed including some landmark design breakthroughs and has been renamed the Yeomans Keyline Plow.

BIBLIOTECA AGRÍCOLA

FLOWERING DESERT

Recently we had a whirlwind tour of Atacama in the north of chile, the driest place on earth. This was a learning experience rather than teaching, in this hostile and vulnerable landscape that has been occupied for thousands of years we find strategies for building resilience.

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Fuimos visitados por un grupo de 10 mujeres, Las Mamas como les llama Grifen con cariños a las mujeres campesinas, un término que me ha gustado mucho y lo he empezado a utilizar (nótese que no es mamás sino mámas). Un muy querido amigo, Fo, doctor de Santa Bárbara un pueblito de la cuenca del rio Bio Bio, incitó a estas mujeres a visitarnos con el fin de conocer nuevas técnicas de cultivos naturales y orgánicos y encontrar respuestas a su mayor drama en la actualidad, la escasez de agua.

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