Drip Irrigation: Watering Your Garden While Saving Your Resources

In summer, keeping a vegetable garden well watered means keeping an open tap like you haven’t seen since your last kegger in college. But if you live in California, the little rainfall we see in winter can make it seem like summer year-round. And that makes our finite resource ever more precious in spite of the few rainstorms that did pass through in December.

Since 2011, California has become increasingly thirsty, with 80 percent of the state suffering extreme to exceptional drought. A rece...