Archive for the ‘Water’ Category

Since it’s summertime, I’m off!  It’s a great part of being a teacher.  I enjoy doing some morning chores around the homestead a few days a week. I usually begin with filling a bucket from the rainbarrel, and using that water to water the plants around the yard. I will also take a bucket of […]

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Water!

Here at Independence Homestead, a big part of being self-sufficient is being able to get through an emergency.  In our area there was a huge storm on Friday night.  While our homestead came through the storm just fine, over 200,000 people in our county were still without power 24 hours later.  Plus several areas had […]

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April showers have finally arrived and our rain barrels are already both at capacity. It has not even rained that much but between the two barrels they collect over half the rain that falls on our roof, and that adds up to enough collected water to fill up our two barrels. Seeing all this rain water leave our barrels made me realize that it was time we started utilizing this water more effectively.

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Martha did a fantastic job prepping our rain barrels. Now it is time for me to install them! We decided that our first two rain barrels would reside in our back yard as we had a bit of trouble with water flowing from the existing down spouts from the roof into our lawn and washing […]

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Early on we decided that rain barrels would be a great addition to our homestead.  Our yard is on a slope, and when it rained the water flow over part of the yard would be too much.  Grass wouldn’t grow well in that area, and the ground would get really muddy.  Part of the water […]

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