Growing food without irrigation! Even during a drought!

Sound like a blurb from one of those "Buy this and Get RICH in just ONE DAY!!!" ads doesn't it. Only difference this is true and you don't have to buy a thing! Really. I'm going to be trying it, that's for sure. I've already got some tiny little mini versions snaking across my front yard. They may grow as more material presents itself.

Out back in the pasture however, I'll need some help. Big muscle type help or weaker muscles that owns some power equipment and won't mind doing something that will likely seem odd to them.

What is this Miracle that could let me grow food, even during a drought, without irrigation?  It's got a weird German name that means hill or mound or some such. It's spelled Hugelkulture and you can find out a lot about it at http://richsoil.com/hugelkultur/
That's where I found out about it.

All you need are some old, preferably half rotten logs, tree limbs or firewood so old it's no longer usable and a place on your land where you want a garden. You can dig down a little or just start right there with out even skinning back the sod. If you do skin back the sod save it and plop it grass side down on top of your newly built raised bed when you are done.

Next  you build that raised bed by pilling all that old wood, rotted and otherwise, within the outline of where you want your garden.Stuff it in there. Add in fallen leaves, sticks and other woody type things then cover it all up with soil and maybe even a little compost or manure if you want to give it a kick start. Then you plant some fast growing plants that grow tight soil holding roots on top of that to hold the soil in place. (It's a mound by now, preferably a fairly tall one.) There are more details of course. Just go to richsoil.com or permies.com and this fellow Paul Wheaton will tell  you just about everything you need to know about Hugelkulture, and iron skillets, and rocket stoves as well as a little bit about Permaculture. Real good stuff.

Man, I can almost taste the tomatoes already! I'd give more details on this but really Paul does it so much better than I and he's even got pictures showing how it's done. So just go to those sites I told you about, now. Go on! Shoo!!