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Back to Nature: 7 Easy Steps to a Self-Watering Garden

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on September 15, 2015 Respond

Create a Self-Watering Garden in 7 Easy Steps by the Gassman Dan Garduno

Here’s a simple self watering system for your individual garden plants while helping the environment and lessen the burden on our overcrowded landfills. Here’s how:

  1. Upcycle a used water bottle.
  2. Cut the bottom off.
  3. Puncture a small hole into the bottle cap.
  4. Dig a hole next to your plant and near the roots.
  5. Submerge bottle into hole with cap side down.
  6. Fill dirt back around outside perimeter of bottle.
  7. Fill bottle with water and let it drip into the soil and roots!
  • 1. Up-cycle a used water bottle.
    1. Up-cycle a used water bottle.
  • 2. Cut the bottom off.
    2. Cut the bottom off.
  • 3. Puncture a small hole into the bottle cap.
    3. Puncture a small hole into the bottle cap.
  • 4. Dig a hole next to your plant and near the roots.
    4. Dig a hole next to your plant and near the roots.
  • 5. Submerge bottle into hole with cap side down.
    5. Submerge bottle into hole with cap side down.
  • 6. Fill dirt back around outside perimeter of bottle.
    6. Fill dirt back around outside perimeter of bottle.
  • 7. Fill bottle with water and let it drip into the soil and roots!
    7. Fill bottle with water and let it drip into the soil and roots!

 

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“The Glassman” will be posting more blogs and ideas as well as hosting many workshops on Self-sustainability, urban farming/agriculture, windowsill gardening, composting, upcycling, self water planters  and grow beds, solar passive heating, collecting and purifying rain water, mass heaters and rocket stoves, papercrete, hemp cement, and so much more throughout 2015!

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Back to Nature: Explorers at Explora

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on May 5, 2015 Respond

By Dan Garduno

Explorers at ExploraDid you know you can find “The Glassman’s” self watering containers on display at the Explora Science Center and Children’s Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico?

They have been on display since Sept 2014. On a trip to Explora my daughter one day, I found himself inside the Arts and Crafts rooms and found all the items needed to make some wicking containers.

All you do is add soil and seeds to so they can be self watered. After creating them I asked the crew there if they had some soil and seeds (which they did) and water was added to the lower part of the bottle. Seeds were actually sown right there in Explora by the Glassman! Go check it out, 2 of the 3 original bottles remain. We are planning a day when “The Glassman” will host a workshop there for kids and their families!

Funding for our Earth

At this time I am currently working on acquiring some land in the South valley of Albuquerque, New Mexico to start growing on and doing more larger scale experimental garden methods as you see in Back To Nature on Community Publishing. Please help us grow Luna Star Farm by sharing our GoFundMe campaign page and contributing as much or as little as you can! Even $1 helps! WWW.GoFundMe.com/LunaStarFarm. Check out the latest episode of the Community Spotlight Vlog (Video Blog) below featuring yours truly!

Click link for the Back to Nature  articles (archive).
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Dan Garduno

“The Glassman” will be posting more blogs and ideas as well as hosting many workshops on Self-sustainability, urban farming/agriculture, windowsill gardening, composting, upcycling, self water planters  and grow beds, solar passive heating, collecting and purifying rain water, mass heaters and rocket stoves, papercrete, hemp cement, and so much more throughout 2015!

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Guest Poet: Jane Yolen

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on April 22, 2015 Respond

Earth Day by Jane Yolen

I am the Earth
And the Earth is me.
Each blade of grass,
Each honey tree,
Each bit of mud,
And stick and stone
Is blood and muscle,
Skin and bone.

And just as I
Need every bit
Of me to make
My body fit,
So Earth needs
Grass and stone and tree
And things that grow here
Naturally.

That’s why we
Celebrate this day.
That’s why across
The world we say:
As long as life,
As dear, as free,
I am the Earth
And the Earth is me.

SOURCE: “Earth Day” appears in The Three Bears Holiday Rhyme Bookby Jane Yolen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1995) available at Amazon.com.

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Earth DayScience fiction and fantasy writer, editor, children’s author, and poet Jane Yolen is the author of more than 300 books. She is also a teacher of writing and literature, and a reviewer of children’s literature. She has been called the Hans Christian Andersen of America and the Aesop of the twentieth century. Read more by clicking here.

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