Search results for: “rainwater”
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The SHURflo 4008 Product Review The Down and Dirty
This is a SHURflo 4008 Product Review. The product is needed for a rainwater harvesting system to provide instant on water pressure to a garden hose. The requirements are to provide instant on access to water with pressure that can keep a mist irrigation system running. It needs to be a system that runs on…
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An Awesome First Flush Downspout Water Diverter Product Review
This First Flush Downspout Water Diverter Product Review gives a demonstration of how to put this system together and describes how it works. We then use a hose to fill the system up. This will show how it traps the first flush of debris and allows the clean water to go into your water storage…
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Best Product Review of the Rain Harvesting Leaf Eater
This Best Product Review of the Rain Harvesting Leaf Eater will first give an overview of the rainwater harvesting system and then dive into the Leaf Eater product review. Rainwater Harvesting System Overview The system starts out with a gutter that has a screen called a gutter guard. It is used to prevent the larger…
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More Water Catchment Lessons Learned for Everyone to Learn From
My water catchment system is full again and catches water from every rain, but there are still a few tweaks to be made. I thought I had a rock solid water catchment design, but discovered a few issues that need to be resolved. The issues to be addressed include water sitting on top of the…
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More Valuable Rain Water Harvesting Lessons Learned to Teach All
More Valuable Rain Water Harvesting Lessons Learned to Teach All post outlines some of the mistakes I made. The accompanying video covers how to properly bend downspouts, sizing of the first flush system drainage holes. It also covers moving water away from structures, use extra glue on your first flush system. The video goes on…
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About Great Escape Farms
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Great Escape Farms is a small family farm located just outside Romney, WV, USA. We have been in business since 2015 and sell unique edible plants, produce YouTube videos on gardening and homesteading, and are setting up as a Permaculture/regenerative agriculture showcase farm. Plant Nursery Our unique edible plants are propagated and grown on the…
