When we first began to clear the land for our little farm in the fall of 2010 – one of our biggest concerns was water – or should I say, lack of water at the property. Without a well or natural spring – we worried about how we would supply water to our future fruit trees, mini-vineyard and landscape plants – not to mention the hundreds of vegetable plants we planned on growing in the garden! But as we head into the 2015 growing season nearly 5 years later, we have yet to dig a single well – and yet – those initial H20 worries are nothing more than a distant memory! How so? Well (no pun intended), with the addition of few simple and inexpensive rain water collection systems set up around the farm – we now have more than enough water stored on site for all of our needs and more. The best part of all, these methods can be easily adapted to almost any home to handle your outdoor watering needs as well, saving valuable natural resources from your well or city water supply – not to mention saving you the money it takes to use them! It’s also a [...]