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Harvesting FREE rain-irrigated mesquite pods for goat and people feed
I’ve harvested over 200 gallons of DRY mesquite pods as of early July 2023. Choosing Mesquite Trees for Landscapes & How to Identify Different Species More About Mesquite Multi-Use Plant Lists & Nurseries for Water-Harvesting Landscapes, Goats, & Chickens Get more info on how to do this and harvest many other free, on-site waters at:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/…
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Harvesting +30,000 gallons of roof runoff in tree basins for FREE
See how we harvest over 30,000 gallons (114,000 liters) of roof runoff in tree basins to passively shade and cool the building from which we harvest the water. This system was created in 1996 by two people in two hours, only using hand shovels. We did the work in the rain, because that is the…
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How wall color can cool (or heat) you by over 25˚F (13˚C), & shade can cool you by over 45˚F (25˚C)
Light colored exterior walls—exposed to full sun—are over 25˚F (˚C) cooler than darker colored walls; while shaded walls (whatever the color) are over 45˚F (˚C) degrees cooler than walls exposed to the full sun. I discovered this by comparing the temperature of different colored west-facing walls with a hand-held infrared thermometer on a summer afternoon…
Plant the rain, so plants self-seed, germinate, and thrive
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Plant rain, then seed, to vegetate your rain gardens for FREE
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Transplanting FREE volunteer seedlings of multi-use native plants with rain gardens
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Rehydrating community and controlling flooding with in-street and street-side water harvesting
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Harvest more rainwater with a living sponge than a water tank
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Maximize your harvest of free stormwater from streets and driveways
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Pulling invasive bufflegrass from moist soil