By the Gallons | Permaculture & Water Conservation

Permaculture landscapers focus on water conservation strategies to place nitrogen rich rain water back into the soil.

There’s a phrase that permaculturists use for water conservation, they say the focus of water is to:

“Slow it, Spread it, and Sink it”

You see, permaculturists stucuture their landscape design with the sites natural watershed.

They prepare the site to capture the water through basins, rainwater capture gutter systems, and storage tanks.

To understand the scale of water available for capture, every 1in of rainfall on a 1,000 sf of roof, .6 gallons of water is available for capture.

By the gallons, this is 600 gallons of nitrogen rich water that the plants love and thrive on.

With proper ethical design science, and knowing how food energy efficient permaculture is, even in the most arid climates we can produce thriving micro-ecosystems.

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