Using a Cultivable Catchment System to Establish a Dryland Commercial Truck Farm

Using a Cultivable Catchment System to Establish a Dryland Commercial Truck Farm

Summary

This project will establish productive vegetable beds on a relatively barren and agriculturally useless site using cross-linked polyacrylamides (CLP) and a permeable woven polypropylene mulch to make the beds themselves a catchment system for snowmelt and the scant amount of rain the site receives. The project aims to demonstrate the efficacy of this technology for providing solutions to the problems of water conservation, erosion control, and finding a cost-effective way to put idle land into production.