(This one's for you Danielle)
Rainfall Sept. '05 to June '06: less than .2 inches (that's POINT 2 inches)
Rainfall 1st half of July: 2.5 inches
Rainfall today: 1.75 inches (and counting)
Wow! We actually have a 2 foot deep pond in the sand pit just from today's rain.
We call it a project because there are lots of things going on here. We are a family of four living semi-rurally in our owner-built off-grid straw bale home, attachment parenting, homeschooling, farming and homesteading with two other family members on 10 acres. Our goals are self-sufficiency and sustainability as we prepare for the future while living joyfully in the present.
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Wow! And I remember what that water looks like falling out of the sky and filling those arroyos in a flash.
Glad you're getting some rain! We've been really lucky this summer, and to answer your earlier question, no I don't irrigate.
This spring I'd water the seeds until the popped, but then there was no more supplemental water.
We're hoping to build a gravity fed water collection system off the barn. Well, two actually, one of which will hopefully be haulable with the tractor. It's amazing how quickly the rainbarrels fill with just one rain!
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