Veterans Reloading

Ill start.

A simple home depot box filled with gravel serves as a filter to keep the plumbing clear.

Then we filled it with wood chips. It should hold about 300 times as much water as my native sand.

A water battery (I've also heard it called a living sponge) is a deep trench dug dead level and directly on contour. It is closed on both ends like pond and even has a level sill for overflow. It is then filled material that holds more water than the native soil. This allows it to impound water that...

One electric pump sends this all up hill and under the solar array to be gravity fed down to gardens. We rarely have to supplement with the well. Our well is very alkaline so rainwater is much better for the garden.

Minimal fliteration since this only irrigation water. Don't buy this. It sucks. Just get some plastic flower pots and sandwich window screen between. I add a leaf filter to the down spout as well.

This is a tank battery. Used cheap it free IBC tanks at the downspouts and plumed together so they fill at the same rate. The math is sq foot of roof X inches of rain X .62= rain caught. Its important that your overflow/outlet can shed your heaviest historical rainfall or that it is the same size as...

Hi everyone! Im hoping to fill this area of the site out a bit. For me, long term survival means being prepared for anything that comes your way. This makes it more a lifestyle than a set of techniques. Long term survival is not just about what happens if society collapses or there is a long term fo...

That is beautiful.

That is beautiful.