Greening the desert

It seems like there might already be a thread here on this topic -- someplace. It came up over at HomesteadingToday, though, and about it, and thought it would make a good discussion over here, too. There's someone at HT who is looking into buying land on the Terlingua Ranch in the Big Bend area of Texas -- less than ten inches of rain a year, and over six months of 90 degrees or more during the daytime. Don't know about the soil, but water has to come from rain collection or be hauled…

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New to permaculture and to this forum so I would like to say hi and introduce myself. Anyways and hope for some input.

Desert Greening is the process of converting tracts of desert land into fertile land for agriculture, cattle grazing, and other ecological reasons. If you’ve ever seen a desert and thought, “Is it possible to convert these vast expanses of sand into lush green spaces?”, then this is the article for you! There is a movement called desert greening that intends to do just that. In fact, several massive desert greening projects in Africa, the Middle east, and China are already well

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Planting a summer vegetable garden in our high-desert climate with its ovenlike temperatures, punishing winds and moisture-slurping atmosphere is not for the timid.

My Journey On An (Almost) Desert Island. Last year, our family moved to an island off the coast of Los Angeles, California. I was excited to learn that they had a garden because the Mediterranean

Vegetables, fruit production, desert climate, what to do