Urban and sub-urban garden ideas/ Idees pour jardin urbain et de banlieue

Clea

2008-10-22T11:23:00.001-07:00

Clea is among other things a gardener, propagator and an educator. In the Fruitvale garden she works on with the collaboration of locals and children, they grow edibles in the traditions of different Asian culture

Clea has also reintroduced natives to the nearby creek. Those natives spread downhill from where she started, and bring back pollinators, frogs and cleans the waters.

Tim

2008-10-22T11:13:00.000-07:00

Tim does it all. He's a engineer, but he also makes humanure, gray water, compost, uses solar energy, grows his food, uses recycle wood to heat his shed.

HAUT House

2008-10-17T13:42:00.000-07:00

Laura is standing next to a 3 teared gray water cleansing system. The shower water goes through three bathtubs. The shower soaps of the whole household are natural. the 2 first tub countain gravel, rocks and cattails. the 3rd countains water and water hyacinths After going through the last bathtub, the water goes througha hose into the garden. Then connected to an irrigation system.
Laura is debout a cote d'un systeme de netoyage d'eau qu'elle a cree. Les eaux usee des douches sont detournee et passe par les 3 baignoires. Evidemment les savons utilisee sont naturels et biodegradables. Les 2 premieres baignoires sont pleine de gravier, de pierres et de roseaux ou equisetums. La derniere est pleine d'eau et de jacinthes d'eau, qui sont aussi des filtres a eau. Apres le passage dans la troisieme baignoire, l'eau est disseminee dans le jardin par un systeme d'irrigation a emeteurs.

In the 2 first images rainwater is directed towards the flower beds. In the tird, Laura created a gravel bassin in wich are growing water loving plants such as Taro. The water comes from the laudry and has gone through a few filter before reaching the gravel.
Dans les 2 premieres images l'eau de pluie est dirigee vers les lits de fleurs. Dans la 3eme, Laura a cree un bassin de gravier dans lequel pousse des plantes d'eau comme le taro. Les eaux viennent de la machine a laver le linge et sont passer par plusieurs autres filtres avant d'atteindre le gravier.

A circular/bike weel theme develops throuhout the garden. Circular, urbanite herb garden, Harbor, bed liners
Un theme circulaire, des roue de velo traverse le jardin. Un jardin d'herbes aromatique, rond, fait avec des blocs d'urbanite.

This elegant compost toilet fonctions with wood chips.
Cet elegant systeme de toilette seche fonctionne avec copeau de bois.

The log was drilled and plugged with mycillium or not top provide insect habitat.
La souche a ete percee,certaines des cavitees ont ete remplie par du myceliium, d'autres servent d'habitat aux insectes locaux

Hive. Ruche

All about building sustainable water culture and infrastructure, Laura is one of the founders:
Toutes les informations sur la creation d'une culture et infrastrcture de l'eau a developement durable, Laura en est une des fondatrices:
http://greywaterguerrillas.com/

Karl's garden

2008-10-13T19:16:00.000-07:00

Close drying
Straw bale sitting area
Permaculture farming method

SOL's half wild half farmed garden

2008-10-13T11:00:00.000-07:00

Sol is unique. It is equally divided between a farmed area, and a native wildlife/orchard area(above behind the compost and the chicken coop).
Sol est unique. La surface du jardin est divise de facon egale entre un potager et une friche de plantes natives et verger/habitat pour les insectes et oiseaux (au dessus, derriere les poules et le compost)

Tractor chicken coop, the chickens are placed under it and they plow, amend the soil.
Right. Over the winter, the bed is covered with cardboard, 8" of hourse manure and straw.

Les poules sont placee dans la cage et deplacee a travers le jardin, la fiente nourie le sol.
A droite. Durant l'hiver le sol du potager est couvert d'un couche de carton, 20cm de crottin de cheval, et de paille.

Baby fruit bearing olive for harvesting.
Ex pee collecting device in wich plants grew and filtered pee.

Petit olivier a fruit.
Ex-tube pour recolter l'urine et la filtrer avec des plantes.

The banana trees grows on grey water from the wash machine.
Le bananier pousse dans l'eau usee de la machine a laver.

SOL propagates in the green house and saves seeds.
Au centre du jardin une serre qui permet la germination des futures plantes du potager. Les graines sont sauvees.

Canned garden harvest. Custom colorfull bee hives.
Conserves. Ruches.

Planting day on the slope of the permaculture garden, Terry Compost in the center, smilling

2008-10-13T10:54:00.000-07:00

Green Fairy garden

2008-10-13T10:12:00.000-07:00

Green Fairy is a fully farmed back yard. Rabbits, ducks, chicken and a few goats, bees, and multiple edibles. This cob structure will be the goat milking and goat milk and cheese processing facility. It is conceive to allow the goat to have a save milking experience.
Outside the building you can see a gray water system collecting, filtering, redistributing used waters.

Green feary is un jardin entierement cultive. Lapins, poules, canard et meme chevre, abeilles et evidemment un potager et des fruitiers. Cette stucture construite en adobe(sable/paile et sol argileux) est la salle de trayage, pasteurisation, culture de yaourt, de fromage de chevre. Pendant le trayage, la chevre a une vue rassurante sur le jardin.
Devant la structure on peux voir des bassins a eaux usees, qui seront filtrees par des plantes et redistribuees dans le potager.
Vue on the bees, vue on the garden, for the goat.
Vue sur les abeilles, et vue sur le jardin pour la chevre.

The goats, and their milk anc cheese

One of the buildings detail, and the extraordinaire cob builder Marisha (www.Naturalbuilders.com)plastering an interior wall.
Un des detail de construction, et une des eco-maconne/carpentiere/constructrice en train de faire un dernier platre sur un mut interieur.

Cooperative roots garden extension

2008-10-13T09:47:00.000-07:00

This garden was started by a A. , an active member of co-op roots. The landlord rents out the land for a bilboard and let wead take over untill A. offered to farm the land. The garden is always open and used by whoever feel inspired.
Ce jardin a ete comenecer par A. un membre de Cooperative roots. Le proprietaire de cette parcelle de terrain le loue a un panneau publicitaire, et jusqu'a la venue d'A. laiser pousser les "mauvaises herbes". A a offert de commencer un potager ouvert a tous et utiliser par beaucoup de voisins.

Sheet mulching with waxy cardboard to suffocate weeds in the paths of the garden, the cardboard will then be covered with mulch from a local arborist.
Les sols des villes sont tres pauvres et compact. A la fois pour nourir le sol et suffoquer les mauvaises herbes, le sol est couvert de carton, puis de copeaux de bois venant d'un arboriste local

Cooperative roots

2008-10-09T21:49:00.000-07:00

Edibles growing everywhere. The gray water system was installed by Dig Coop(http://dig.coop/Site_2/Home.html). The water goes through numerous filters, including sand/bacteria filled underground cisterns. In this image the water is going though the plant wall, to get oxygene. The cleane water goes back into the house and is used to flush and wash laundry!
Le jardin est entierement domestique et le potager s'epand dans tout les coins. Un systeme de recuperation d'eau usee. Les eaux sont filtrees par le mur de plantes et canalisee en direction des arbres du jardin.

Compost and lived in cabins
Compost et des cabanes contruites et habitees dans le jardin.

Rain water catching cistern. Water heating system that runs throughout the floors of the house, outdoor kitchen with solar panels on the roof, in the middle of the farmed garden.
Citerne qui recupere l'eau de pluie. Systeme de chaufage a eau qui passe a travers les sols.

Salvage construction suply fro future projects. And the chickens.
Stockage de materiaux de construction recycles. Et le poulailler

Recycled made trellis

2008-10-06T16:53:00.000-07:00

Dry and worm compost

2008-09-19T21:54:00.000-07:00

Lasagna technique

Testing heat in dry compost, checking on worms, dry compost

Furniture

2008-09-19T20:47:00.000-07:00

Bathtubs turned into worm bins, used as benches.
Pedestals covered with used fabric used as seats and table.

Arbors and climers

2008-09-19T20:02:00.000-07:00

Chayote

Butterfly garden

2008-09-19T18:18:00.001-07:00

I've never lived anywhere else where people have such a passion for botany and horticulture, and made a conscious effort to grow California natives, provide food and "continual habitat" for wildlife
Sunflowers, native grasses, asters on the side walk

Plants that provide butterfly food in the fall
Zinnia, Lychnis, Coreopsis, Argyranthemum, Achillea, Rudbekia, Escallonia (mild attraction)

Recipes

2008-09-18T10:06:00.000-07:00

Archie's kale recipe.
-Put out the rib of the leaf, and slice it.
-Start cooking the leaf ribs with a piece of bacon or turkey or whatever meat you want to use
-Roll the leaf and slice it, and through it in the pot 10 min. later Archie Explained me that it was a traditional African American recipes he grew up eating. Archie grows his own vegetable, and i met his as he was hunting for his youth's kale.

Green/natural/recycling building

2008-08-03T15:08:00.000-07:00

Outdoor cob kitchen, outdoor bathtub, cob oven
Cuisine , salle de bain, four

Lingroofs, with drought tolerants plant, sun loving plants, oven.
Toit vivant a plantes qui tolerent la secheresse, aiment le soleil. Four

Humanure

2008-08-03T13:35:00.000-07:00

Outdoor humanure systems. The feces are then composted and incorporated back in the garden. The 2 first shelters are made with woven bamboo. the third images are grasses filtering the composting toilet.
Systemes the toilettes seches exterieures. Les excrement/sciures/terre sont filtres par des plantes et reutiliser dans le jardin.

The peepeeponic guides the pee into the large compost area and gets mixed in.

Tim lives in Oakland. His humanure toilet conciscts of a bucket, dirt and ashes.

Jared lives in Canyon, his humanure toilet is outside built with cob, urbanite, recycled wood.

Bee hives / Abeilles

2008-08-03T11:28:00.001-07:00

Sara's 5 stack bee hives, Berkeley
Marcia's bees installed in the vegetable patch, in the front Marcia's compost bin made with chicken wire , Berkeley
"Having your own bees and eating local honey immunizes your body to allergies, plus needless to say that because bees are getting hill and dying, having them insures pollination of local fruit trees.

Chicken coops

2008-07-31T13:06:00.001-07:00

Montclair. the neighboors rabit cage was turned into a chicken coop, and the whole outdoor area is slowly turning into a permaculture experiment.

Berkeley, Marsha's chickens live in a palace, surrounded with luscious tropical and edible garden.

Ely's chicken coop has chairs in it, so she can hand out with them and pet them, when i took the pictures the chickens are not even in the coop,they are inside the house!

Raider has quite a few chicken, Someone crawled into the small entrance of the chicken cop to steal his eggs, he was upset, humored and mad at the same time.

Reclaimed front yards

2008-07-31T12:22:00.001-07:00

Berkeley, beet front yard

Ocean Beach edibles, early spring

Sidewalk gardens

2008-07-31T12:01:00.000-07:00

Berkeley, Calendula, LA Chinatown

LA chinatown sidewalks, pumpkin and garlic

Ocean Beach mustard greens