You’ve heard me say that water is only as clean as the container you store it in, so it only makes sense that I do a post about the best ways to store rainwater, right? The point of appropriately storing rainwater is all about health and sanitation:...
I’m all for harvesting rainwater – itʻs how I get my water on my off grid homestead. But harvested rainwater is not safe to drink. Even if you use a first-flush system (which you should!) and filter out bits of leaves and other debris, you’ve...
Image Courtesy The Lili House Farm If you get plenty of rain year-round, as we do in Hawai’i, then you may think that swales aren’t that useful for your homestead. But, when swales are properly designed, they perform an important duty of not only...
Folks living off grid should definitely be collecting rainwater. Even if you live in dry climates, harvesting rainwater should be done. Rainwater can be used for a multitude of things: the garden, livestock, flushing the toilet, and more. However, untreated and...
The rainy season in the tropics provides an abundance of rainwater. And if youʻre like me, you try to save every drop that falls in storage tanks, buckets, garbage cans, whatever you can find to store it. But for how long can you keep that rainwater...
It is easy to set up a basic rainwater system with even just a few rain barrels. But, what are you going to do with that rainwater? Beyond the most obvious: watering the garden, do you know what else you can do with collected rainwater? What Can Collected Rainwater Be...
