Gardening Without Irrigation: Or Without Much, Anyway

This is essentially a story of a man, survivalist at heart, who moved his family from Michigan to a 5 acres homestead in Oregon in a lovely, grassy valley. To feed his family, he sets up raised beds and intensive (square foot) gardening, which had worked so well back east. He runs into an irrigation problem unlike anything he had anticipated and nearly looses the garden crops he was depending on which were sustained by watering all night, five or six nights a week, with a single, 2-1/2 gall...