GEN. Big hope/commonopoly. Kerrmaculture Kerrville Folk Festivals Permaculture Site. Rain Cisterns at Threadgill There is a lot of roof on the ranch, We can get about a half gallon per inch of rain on one square foot of roof.
Catching as much of this water as we can should be a big priority. Some where there may already be water budgets and estimates of potential rain water harvesting opportunities on the ranch. If anyone knows where they are please let me know. I follow a group called rain water harvesting on yahoo groups rainwaterharvesting@yahoogroups.com Just about everything you may want to know about rain water harvesting can be found on this forum. As far as storage, the cheapest place to store water is in the soil and in catchments to allow it to infiltrate in the soil. Fill out the form below if you are interested in being involved in creating rain water harvesting systems on the ranch. This will be an excellent work shop opportunity.
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Intentional Communities have been a practical solution for how some of the most progressive people are now choosing to live in a changing world. The Emerald Forest is, a whole network of sustainable communities, who share a common purpose of Saving the Earth. We are the Kindred Spirits, of the Emerald Forest. Now might be a good time to begin, to create a whole network of Sustainable Communities, that would be able to deal with the irreversible consequences, of our own misplaced sense, of the natural order of priorities, which we may have chosen to reverse, as a part of a collective conspiracy, to overthrow the rightful order, and to throw things out of balance, out of contempt for authority, and as the designated victims of the world, who may think they have a right to take more, of the world from everybody else, just to make up for being victims, of some slight disadvantage.
What is needed now is a new story. The Edenhope Project. Global Unity Project. Earth Sanctuary. Brilliance.org. The Federation of Egalitarian Communities. The Federation of Egalitarian Communities is a network of communal groups spread across North America.
We range in size and emphasis from small agricultural homesteads to village-like communities to urban group houses. Principles of the FEC Each of the FEC communities: Holds its land, labor, income and other resources in common. Assumes responsibility for the needs of its members, receiving the products of their labor and distributing these and all other goods equally, or according to need. Why We Exist Because we share so much, and because we are committed to a vision of community which transcends our individual groups, we have joined together to cooperate on publications, conferences, recruitment efforts, community support systems including health care, and a variety of other mutually supportive activities.
Connect With Us We cannot promise utopia, but if you are seriously interested in our joyous struggle, we invite you to come and see for yourself. Earth Communities. Carol Fitzpatrick-Embracing Oneness of Being. For the Creation of Intentional Communities.