How much water will your garden need this year? This handy guide from Urban Farmer Store (a Bay Area HOG distributor) breaks down the equation for you. Their sample features a 10×10 veggie garden watered with drip irrigation in zone 1. Click here or on the image below to start calculating!
And for the next question: why not install a HOG system to irrigate your garden with captured rainwater!? We’re giving out virtual good citizen awards for conserving water with a drought on…
Recent events
1) Permascape Designs brought 2) The City of Petaluma
HOG to the 1st Annual Long sponsored a three HOG
Island Green Infrastructure Expo giveaway at the Sonoma-
on June 21, 2012. Marin Fair held in Petaluma,
CA from June 20-24, 2012.
3) GreenBuild in San Francisco Meet Rainwater HOG’s Sally and Simon Dominguez at GreenB,uild, the largest green building show in the USA. The event will be held from November 14-16, 2012 at the Moscone Conference Center in San Francisco.
The Green & Main Pilot Project in Des Moines, Iowa.
4) Campus Rainworks Challenge The United States Environmental Protection Agency has launched Campus Rainworks Challenge, a student design contest engineered to raise awareness of green infrastructure alternatives for stormwater management.
Our offer to participating student teams: incorporate Rainwater HOG tanks into a winning entry, and we will give you three HOG tanks.
Registration opens September 4 and ends December 14, 2012. Winning entries will be selected by EPA and announced in April 2013.
Extra, Extra
5) Hey Bay Area, click on this coupon for 20% off WaterSense smart irrigation controllers from one of our California distributors, the Mill Valley branch of The Urban Farmer Store!
The Whole HOG 