Irrigation – Soil and Health Library

Albrecht, William A.: Assorted scientific papers and miscellaneous publications

3 June, 2015
Steve Solomon

Albrecht published hundreds of papers in agriculture and health-related journals. He also wrote a many years long series of monthly articles in Let's Live!, a popular health magazine. A collection of similar papers (without the Let's Live! articles), is published in-print on-paper by Acres, USA as The Albrecht Papers in four volumes.

The Challenge of Landscape

4 February, 2015
Alice Reinheimer

An illustration-filled practical farming textbook focused on water conservation, small-scale dam construction and gravity-fed irrigation projects. Especially useful for practicing sustainable rainfall-dependent farming.

Gardening Without Irrigation …or without much, anyway

26 January, 2015
Alice Reinheimer

This is a guide to growing food with little or no irrigation. It was written entirely from personal observations and original research between 1979 and 1993 in western Oregon, where there is rarely any rainfall between June through September. It has broad applications to any place where the rains can't be depended upon.

The Drought Myth: The Absence of Water Is Not The Problem

23 July, 2014
Alice Reinheimer

Explains that much of the apparency of moisture stress is subsoil infertility. Some have experienced that foliar feeding of apparently moisture-stressed crops will "cure" them.