The Garden Pool : Feed your Family from your Backyard Ecosystem

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Название: The Garden Pool : Feed your Family from your Backyard Ecosystem

Издательство:Published by Garden Pool, LLP

Автор:Dennis and Danielle McClung

Год: 2012

Количество страниц:56

Язык:English

Формат: pdf

Размер:24 Mb

How to design, build, and operate your own Garden Pool system of self-sustaining food production in your backyard.

Garden Pool started as one family’s blog to document converting an old backyard swimming pool in to a closed-loop food-producing urban greenhouse and has evolved in to a non-profit organization.The GP (short for Garden Pool) was a one of a kind creation invented by Dennis McClung in October of 2009. It is truly a miniature self-sufficient ecosystem.Garden Pool is dedicated to research and education of sustainable ways to grow food. Our mission as a non-profit is to develop better ways to grow food and help others do the same.

Table of Contents

1.Introduction

A solution for our times

Why we built the Garden Pool

2.Coming Up With A Great Plan

Site Assessment

Design a Solution

3.Building A Garden Pool

Framing & Structural Support

Climate Control

Plumbing

Chicken Coop

Pond

4.Harvest, Recycle, & Store Water

Rain Catchment

Gray Water

5.Create, Use, & Store Electricity

Solar

Wind & Water

Timers

6.Bring Your Creation To Life

Pond Plants

Beneficial Plants

Animals

Algae and Bacteria

7.Grow Plants

Aquaponics

Fruit Trees

8.Raise Animals

Chickens

Goats

Fish

9.Maintenance

What to do Daily

What to do Monthly

What to do Seasonally

10.Resources

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