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I just stumbled across this site. It has some interesting concepts and images regarding setting up an off grid self sufficient home.
The guy is selling a book, but there's a lot of free info and pictures. One item I noticed right off is using reinforced tanks for water - and I know a played out mine near my house where they abandoned two! Guess what our weekend project is going to be?
Submariner and Happy in WY, among others, can probably give us a better opinion if the info is any good. I don't have any farming experience. But the farm layout on the site looks interesting to me.
We use those reinforced tanks for rainwater collection from rooftops. It's used to water our conventional vegetable garden. Our native edible plant acreage doesn't need watering since everything is adapted to the amount of rainfall we get.
The "reinforced tanks" you refer to are IBC totes and most commonly hold 275 gallons of water. If you find used ones, be sure that they previously held only clean water or food products, as they are often used to hold chemical compounds and it is virtually impossible to clean that out of a plastic container. Just sayin.
Regarding book reviews, anyone who is honest will want to read the book first. Given that your web site is obviously trying to sell the book, be careful with the pretty pictures and excepts of the experiences of those who claim to have been there, done that. On the other hand, if the book is cheap enough, you have little to lose so go ahead and order it if you want to.
For those interested in storing water here's an old thread. We have four water catchment systems spread out over 9 acres. The simplest catches the water off a small chicken coop roof to supply water for the chickens, the most complicated stores and treats 10,000 gallons of rain water from our home's roof.
Since I posted the original, we acquired an adjacent property (the last 3 of the 9 acres) that had a 2,000 gallon steel tank from a water delivery truck on the back of it. Will probably never need to use it but I use a "kiddie pool" with a hole in the center on top of the tank's fill hole like a funnel to keep it topped off. I drain water periodically from it to keep it fresh. Just in case we ever need to tap it. Our only source of water is rain*, and in 8 years we've never ran out, even with livestock and crop irrigation (It helps to get 150 inches of rain per year).
Last edited by terracore; 07-05-2020 at 11:36 PM..
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