[Community_garden] Paying for water at Community Gardens

I'm looking for information on programs that currently charge community gardeners for their water consumption. Currently, we are opening a new garden in our county where the gardeners will be charged by plot for water consumption. We are considering making drip irrigation mandatory in the gardens.

Re: [Community_garden] Paying for water at Community Gardens

A few strategies that would be helpful for water conservation in addition to drip irrigation: If you are on even a slight slope, create fertile soil swales to catch and hold water when it does rain. These are sort of like invisible refilled ditches that direct water to the planting beds.

Re: [Community_garden] Paying for water Part 2

Also I forgot to mention that some varieties do well on less water. For example tepary beans tend to produce well in arid heat on far less water than the more common green beans. Sharon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ The American Community Gardening