Welcome to Field Notes
A new place on flowsync.pro for tutorials, irrigation history, drought updates, and landscaping insight from the field.
What is this?
Field Notes is the new blog on flowsync.pro. It is the long-form home for the content we want to put out into the world — the stuff that does not fit in a tweet and that deserves to live somewhere better than an Instagram caption.
We'll publish four kinds of things here:
- Tutorials — Short, practical walkthroughs. How to diagnose a stuck solenoid. How to read a controller wiring diagram. How to find a valve box without a locator. Written for working contractors, not homeowners, but homeowners are welcome to read along.
- History — The story of how irrigation got to be the way it is. Roman aqueducts. California in the 1880s. The first electronic controllers. The controller wars of the 1990s. Evergreen stuff that rewards curiosity.
- Drought & News — Weekly drought monitor updates, restriction changes by city, NOAA seasonal outlooks, regulation changes. The stuff that affects your schedules whether you want it to or not.
- Landscaping — Not every post has to be irrigation. Landscape contractors work across a whole trade, and we'll cover the adjacent pieces that matter.
Why a blog and not just social?
Because social is ephemeral and a blog is forever.
A tweet about how to fix a stuck solenoid lives for about two days. A blog post about the same thing shows up in Google searches for the next ten years. We think the people who read Field Notes deserve better than disposable content, and we think the work of writing it deserves to compound instead of evaporate.
Every post here will also get cross-posted to social in chunks — the long form lives here, the short form goes out into the feed.
What's coming next
The first real posts are being drafted now. Expect the first batch within the week:
- A brief history of the pop-up sprinkler, from 1933 to today
- The 4 things that cause low pressure (in order of how often it is actually each one)
- Drought Monitor update for the week — what changed and where it matters
- The history of the Hunter I-20 rotor and why it changed commercial irrigation
If there's something you want us to cover, tell us. flowsync.pro is built by one person who has actually been on job sites. The content here will be too.
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