Diy rain collection

From building sheds and folding workbenches to putting together sweet gift baskets, here are our most popular DIY projects from 2016.

Essentially, my garden is annoyingly far away from larger sources of water (although I have and do use the hose from the house in the heat of the summer and I do have two IBC totes about 50 yards away connected to the outdoor shed) but I had these smaller rain barrels that could never be adequately filled due to lack of a roof to funnel the free rain water into them. Pinterest at the time didn’t have any good designs so this is what I finagled together. Basically it is a butterfly roof…

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This Pin was created by Rooted Leaf Agritech on Pinterest. How to make a rain barrel for less than $35!

Turn an old plastic barrel into a functional and beautiful rain barrel.

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Elevate your rain barrels to get the proper water flow to your garden! Build this DIY rain barrel stand with just two 4x4 boards!

Collecting rainwater for drinking purposes may seem simple enough, but there are many ways it can go wrong – some of which can be dangerous.

Rain barrel stand out of recycled pallets.

Corner Garden Rain Catcher: 1 millimeter of rain x 1 meter of surface area = 1 liter of water. This rain catcher is a two square meter sheet of plastic folded in half, so for every millimeter of rainfall I get a liter of water for my garden. Parts 1 x 2m sheet of plastic or a…

rain barrel

Rain barrel

Low impact development (LID) focuses on ways that we can adapt human-constructed landscapes to manage stormwater and to reduce harmful impacts on natural resources and the environment. There are many different ways to put LID principles into practice. Examples include: Rain gardens Rain barrels Cisterns Native planting Lawn modification Soakage […]