My message from last week did not go through, so here's another try... re: Creative Options for Bringing Water to the Garden
One of our community gardeners, Matthew Stanfield, is an architect who designed a free standing rain harvesting system, since there was no easy access to water or downspouts at that garden. Using tarps supported on a frame of PVC & 4x4s, he created a funnel like drainage area, about 100 sq ft, that runs into a rain barrel and an overflow tank. One of our other gardeners said it looked like a rain flower. Running with that idea, Matthew now markets to community and home gardeners under the product name RainFLOWr. It's probably easier for you to see for yourself. Check out the pictures at: http://field9architecture.com/project/rainflowr/ ~Jean Jean Taddie Community Garden/Local Foods Program Coordinator North End Community Improvement Collaborative 199 N. Main Street PO Box 954 Mansfield, OH 44901-0954 www.necic-ohio.org (419) 525-3101 On Feb 13, 2014, at 12:00 PM, [email protected] wrote: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 14:36:53 -0500 > From: Patty Sechi <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Community_garden] Creative Options for Bringing Water to the > Garden > Message-ID: > <calgobn2k5luw32cjih+wntj+ekz7w2lr8oaou9asn55ebgc...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > We are starting a new community garden, our second one, in Greenwich, CT. > We have just found out that we are a good distance from the water main and > there is a lot of rock ledge. The estimates we have gotten for digging and > adding a line to the main are very prohibitive. There will be no structures > except for the garden shed near the property, so runoff from roofs would > not be an option. We also will not have electricity. > I am wondering if there might be a way to use a large tank and have it > filled with water, and also have it hooked up to some sort of rainwater > harvesting system? > > -- > > Patty Sechi > > *Greenwich Community Gardens, President & Founder203-629-1499* > > www.greenwichcommunitygardens.org > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20140212/5dd40fed/attachment.html> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20140221/05c71068/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
