This was Monday. Taken from the laptop camera.
This weekend it will be 70 degrees.
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That is a beautiful slice of countryside. Nonetheless, I’m very happy to be living in more southern climes!
Where does your snowmelt go? Are you able to direct it into a cistern or does it go back to Mother Nature?
Oh, we have two streams on the place. But there hasn’t been enough snow to really get the streams going this year.
We conserve water with rain barrels, and take water directly from the stream for watering the gardens. We also have two underground springs.
Eventually, we hope to build an underground reservoir to preserve more of the runoff.
We recycle thousands of gallons of water per year. One rainy afternoon can fill a 75 gallon rain barrel. The water is drained into a pump which transfers the water into a small tank fitted to the tractor. I believe it holds 200 gallons. Then we drive it out to the gardens.
When the rain gets really low, we also recycle bath and kitchen water. We often recycle kitchen water anyway. Plants love fat and soap. On any day in spring and summer, I may take out three or four pots of kitchen water and throw it on the kitchen garden.