permaculture

["Gaden@ziplip.com" <Gaden@ziplip.com>]

Hi Rick,

Re: "I've thought of a water feature (it's often hot during the fair) but the 
cost and difficulty of having it "settled in" for the ephemeral event have 
kept me from trying that."

What about setting up a small flowform display, recycling the water back up 
to the top again? Artistic, functional, aestheticly pleasing, makes nice 
relaxing sounds, water movement to attract attention. Add some 
waterchestnuts, taro and the like.

As a conversation starter, it could lead into discussion of greywater 
systems, reedbed filters, water harvesting, aquaculture etc. etc. 
The flowforms are reasonably portable, easy to set up. If you have time or 
creative friends, you might be able to sculpt up some scale model size 
flowforms and run the whole system with a DC voltage aquarium pump.

Gaden