#rainbarrels

[1stchoicebhl]

Rain Barrels and Resource Conservation.....

www.1stChoiceBHL.com

[terrasu]

My grandmother, who lived through the dust bowl: 😶

My mom, who grew up in a desert (Tripoli, Libya) and was involved in the green movement: 😶

Their extremely environmentally anxious daughter, who also happens to be disabled, breezing through the exhibits of the world's largest Earth day celebration because her pain is spiking:

[exteriortexas]

2023 is the year of SUSTAINBILITY and Garden Design will have a heavy emphasis on adapting Outdoor Spaces around Climate Change: -Incorporating Rain Garden elements -Water Reservoir / Rain Barrels -Improved Drainage -Replanting in boggy areas with water -loving plants -Creating Ecosystems and Habitats for wildlife & pollinators 📷 @deborasmail #2023trends #sustainability #ecosystem #habitat #outdoorliving #waterlovingplants #rain #climatechange #plants #gardens #gardendesign #landscapedesign #landscaping #rainharvesting #rainbarrel #drainage #drainagesolutions #exteriordesign #exteriortexas https://www.instagram.com/p/CoAia3mplar/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[tomorrowsgardennc]

garden update // june 25th 2024

parsley has been keeping an eye out for rain for me. still no sign of any anytime soon. rainbarrels have run dry, and i'm scared to open my water bill.

my pumpkin plants are going absolutely bonkers. one of my favorite parts of having a raised bed is letting the plants flow out. be free, plants, be freeeeee!! i actually want the pumpkins to take over, i can't wait. i have been pinching back the male flowers, though, so the plant can focus its energy elsewhere. but there were a few flowers i couldn't tell if male or female, so i let them bloom. turns out they were male, but the bees are drunk with pollen. maybe i shouldn't be pinching them back as often...

my carrots are going to seed, which wasn't my intention actually 😅 i grow carrots purely for the carrot tops - absolutely delicious when treated like an herb. i don't even thin my carrots out when they germinate. i'm starting to pull some anyway, with parsley's help of course.

last year i started ground cherry seeds in june, and they grew exactly like tomatillos and i got a bountiful harvest in august. this year i started the seeds (saved from last year) at the same time as the tomatoes, and they're dwarf sized!! not even 2 feet tall. they're starting to produce, though. i mean, if they stay dwarf thalen by all means! but at the same time... i hope they do get taller and i get another bountiful harvest in late summer. my favorite tomato is starting to produce, too - the green doctor cherry tomatoes. i'm going to be entering them into a contest in 2 weeks, so i hope i get a lot more by then!!

i took some cuttings from a pomegranate tree about... uhh... 2 months ago now?? and they're starting to grow new leaves!! no roots, though... i might need to transfer them into soil rather than water for root development. probably be on this week's to do.

my dwarf cucumbers and dwarf cantelope are chugging along. they need lots of water, but hopefully that water bill will be worth it in the end.

[hasufin]

5 lessons from ancient civilizations for keeping homes cool in hot, dry climates https://theconversation.com/5-lessons-from-ancient-civilizations-for-keeping-homes-cool-in-hot-dry-climates-237741

I think we should integrate some of these into new construction; more passive cooling and ability to adapt to climate, rather than just throwing an HVAC at it.

(Oh, and before anyone brings up the "tHE gGGGgggguuBbMINt wWwWwWoooon't let you capture rainwatahhh!!!!111!!!" No, that's not true. The case that gets so much talk was this dude who took an entire watershed to fill a large pond. It wasn't fucking rainbarrels.)

[geodethecrow]

kaleidoscopic worries in a rainbarrel

They tell me “try to

See the forest for the trees”

But that’s the problem

I see the trees too clearly

It’s not the size of the forest

That overwhelms me

It’s how many trees there are

Those innumerable branches

Reaching out to snag my hair

The pine sap flowing to

Entrap my limbs in amber

Thick canopy stealing the light

Shifting shadows messing with my eyes

I see it all and that’s what’s wrong

There’s too many ways

The world could end right now

So I'll retreat to the woods

Get lost in the underbrush of my mind

And when I find a pleasant thought

I'll try to hang on to its branches

And stay above the tide of green

Though my hands often slip

And I fall

The bushes swallow me whole

Down into the shadows

Thoughts spiraling like fern fiddleheads

Deep into the infinite what-ifs

Of life and death and decomposition

Spoiling the solitude I seek

I’d love to hang a hammock here

But that branch above is leafless

And leafless branches are often dead

Dead branches, more likely to fall

That branch up there might fall

And hit me

So no, I shouldn’t hang a hammock here

It’d be too dangerous, maybe even deadly

My mind is stuck on all the thorns

Snared in a thicket of thoughts

Unable to escape

I can't see the forest or the trees

There's only darkness in my view

My eyes flooded with tears of night

I tear at my body like an animal

To free myself from this trap

Before it's too late and I die

Then the storm truly hits

Tornadic winds tossing me around

Ripping my sanity out of my grasp

Before my wide and watery eyes

The rain pours down and pounds

Me like a bass drum

I wouldn't be surprised if I'm hollow

See if I resonate when you touch me

But like a tree that falls alone

If no one hears me

Do I even make a sound?

I don't really understand

How only wind

Can scrape a city bare

Rake its claws into the earth and pull

Uprooting all that meets its path

But still it makes some kind of twisted, twisting sense

That something as incorporeal as cloud

Can when angered do such damage

When the winds finally calm

Enough for me to draw a

Single shuddering breath

The area around me's scoured clean

A trail of destruction left where

Everything I touched is dead

And I cry

Wracking sobs of grief at what I caused

Such loss of life I cannot bear

Then I disappear

I melt like morning fog

Battered down by the sunrays

Harsh light pierces my eyes

And I’m

gone

[hexjulia]

instead of buying rainbarrels (expensive) i got these huge food storage barrels for 5 euro (very cheap, essentially the same object but perhaps with slightly less bpa because food safe actually). All i knew before actually seeing them in person was that there'd been food in there and they seemed vaguely red.

Anyway i'm cleaning them now and as it turns out they're greek olive storage barrels and the colour is really more of a terracotta orange. Aside from reusing being better for the environment I like that they have a history. When i was cleaning them just now for a while they still smelled intensely like olives-- olives from Chalkidiki apparentluly. These olives to be specific: http://elagros.gr/en/elagros-2/

[cherryflavoredbutch]

i think a lot of the conflict between me and my dad arises because I am a chronic overthinker who needs to do a month of research before buying a jacket and my dad is a chronic underthinker who is trying to build an animal-cruelty shaped aquarium to be used as an outdoor rainbarrel with zero prior experience or knowledge of what acrylic is

[crowthegeode]

kaleidoscopic worries in a rainbarrel

They tell me “try to

See the forest for the trees”

But that’s the problem

I see the trees too clearly

It’s not the size of the forest

That overwhelms me

It’s how many trees there are

Those innumerable branches

Reaching out to snag my hair

The pine sap flowing to

Entrap my limbs in amber

Thick canopy stealing the light

Shifting shadows messing with my eyes

I see it all and that’s what’s wrong

There’s too many ways

The world could end right now

So I'll retreat to the woods

Get lost in the underbrush of my mind

And when I find a pleasant thought

I'll try to hang on to its branches

And stay above the tide of green

Though my hands often slip

And I fall

The bushes swallow me whole

Down into the shadows

Thoughts spiraling like fern fiddleheads

Deep into the infinite what-ifs

Of life and death and decomposition

Spoiling the solitude I seek

I’d love to hang a hammock here

But that branch above is leafless

And leafless branches are often dead

Dead branches, more likely to fall

That branch up there might fall

And hit me

So no, I shouldn’t hang a hammock here

It’d be too dangerous, maybe even deadly

My mind is stuck on all the thorns

Snared in a thicket of thoughts

Unable to escape

I can't see the forest or the trees

There's only darkness in my view

My eyes flooded with tears of night

I tear at my body like an animal

To free myself from this trap

Before it's too late and I die

Then the storm truly hits

Tornadic winds tossing me around

Ripping my sanity out of my grasp

Before my wide and watery eyes

The rain pours down and pounds

Me like a bass drum

I wouldn't be surprised if I'm hollow

See if I resonate when you touch me

But like a tree that falls alone

If no one hears me

Do I even make a sound?

I don't really understand

How only wind

Can scrape a city bare

Rake its claws into the earth and pull

Uprooting all that meets its path

But still it makes some kind of twisted, twisting sense

That something as incorporeal as cloud

Can when angered do such damage

When the winds finally calm

Enough for me to draw a

Single shuddering breath

The area around me's scoured clean

A trail of destruction left where

Everything I touched is dead

And I cry

Wracking sobs of grief at what I caused

Such loss of life I cannot bear

Then I disappear

I melt like morning fog

Battered down by the sunrays

Harsh light pierces my eyes

And I’m

gone

[weiila]

I tried to explain Äppelkriget (The Apple War), an old Swedish folklore-fantasy comedy environmental movie, to my sister once, and I didn’t get far before she declared the movie couldn’t exist and was just a fever dream. A few things that happens in this movie:

A good witch stops the villains from escaping by turning the engine of their car into a giant cinnamon bun

The villain lady just goes ”oh, hey, cinnamon bun” and starts eating it

A giant puts out a fire in a castle by peeing on it

The witch’s crazy inventor brother invents a worm spyglass so he can study the romantic mating habits of worms. Involves burying his head in dirt

Her other brother spends one scene dousing himself with a hose, and another casually sitting in a rainbarrel. He turns out to be the Nyx, all casual

There’s a hard rock remix of Byssan lull, a classic lullaby

A mouse gives two faires directions in Stockholm so they can infiltrate and try to drug corrupt politicians

The drug is one of the fairies. She fails to take physical form and spends the rest of the movie as a cloud of smoke, so her sister carries her around in a bag and breathing her in makes you a nature hippie

This plot fails because one of the politicians happened to be testing out a gas mask

Villain lady is turned to a frog through a kiss

Villain dude gets turned to stone by skogsrået, a female forest spirit with no back.

Random centaur named Kent Auren. There are no centaurs in Swedish folklore

[jensownzoo]

Late winter garden selections:

Daffodils of course. Purposefully planted 15-20 years ago. Such a lovely long-living plant. I've got many varieties scattered here and there but these are the first to bloom.

Hyacinth. This was a forced-bulb salvage from last spring (someone chucked it after it was spent and I snagged it and planted it). I do love hyacinths, especially the more fragrant ones, but they do seem to get weaker over time in terms of flowering. Even with occasional fertilizer/compost. It might just be my climate. But they're nice while they last.

Spearmint in the new bed I built this past fall. I had three plants started from cuttings taken from alley-growing plants. All of them survived the winter so it looks like I'll be able to add to my mint tea repertoire this year. (The Kentucky Colonel mint I planted in a different bed has also survived) I've got three large earthboxes permanently planted with peppermint already, but looking forward to the variety.

And in the same new bed, all five strawberry plants (two purchased and three from runners) made it through the winter. I did dump a lot of straw over it to help with that outcome, but it's nice to see that it worked.

No pic, but the bronze fennel in the same bed seems to also have survived and I've noticed a few seedlings from the load of miscellaneous flower seed (for pollinators) I scattered over everything.

I did get a row of beets planted in the larger bed yesterday and cilantro seed planted in the cold frame today. The eggplant and pepper seedlings are happily growing in my heated bathroom under lights--the tomato seed will get planted later this week.

We're supposed to get a thunderstorm tonight, so I expect to see more things pop up/start flowering with the continued warm weather. (I also set up the rainbarrels. Last spring I waited and there ended up being a drought, which sucked when trying to get transplants going.)

[mortiz888-blog]

How to Easily Make a Rain Barrel to Save Water | Basics | Better Homes & Gardens

Rain barrels are a great way to save water and money—and making a DIY rain barrel helps you save even more! For each inch of rain that falls on 500 square feet of roof, you can collect 300 gallons of water. Learn how to easily make one with just a few tools and start saving water today! #Sustainability #Water #RainBarrel #Howto #Basics #BHG Read the article: https://www.bhg.com/gardening/yard/tools/make-a-rain-barrel-save-water/ Subscribe to the Better Homes and Gardens Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=bhg Official Better Homes and Gardens Website: http://www.bhg.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mybhg Twitter: http://twitter.com/bhg Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/bhg/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/betterhomesandgardens How to Easily Make a Rain Barrel to Save Water | Basics | Better Homes & Gardens Read the full article

[lopezmaria]

Literature for English

Why Should I Save Water?

In this short-story encourages children to conserve our natatural resource that is water.

This book was written by Jen Green and Mike Gordon, well this history presents a fun and educational way several ways children and their families can avoid wasting water.

In a way to how conservate water the book is described it's likely to include specific examples of the actions that the children can take to save water, such as turning off the faucet while brushing their teeth, fixing water leaks, using efficient shower heads, and reuse water when it's possible. These examples will help children to understand the importance of using water consciously and sustainably.

The water symbolism, water can be seen as a symbol of life, purity and renewal. Although I can't say with certainty how water symbolism is used in this particular book, it is common for water to be represented as a valuable resource essential to the survival of living things. The symbolism of water can also convey the idea of caring for and protecting our natural environment.

The author's message is to teach children and their families the importance of not wasting water and how they can contribute to its conservation. The implicit message is that we all have the responsibility to use water responsibly and sustainably to preserve this essential resource for our existence and the balance of the environment.

Some advices could be:

Buy local, seasonal produce: Buying produce grown in your own region helps to reduce water wasting as it reduces the need for transporting produce over long distances.

Use a water-efficient washing machine: Use the correct water level and the shortest cycle possible to save water during your laundry.

Collect rainwater: Collect rainwater by installing a rainbarrel in your garden, and use it to hydrate your plants during dry spells.

[naturecoaster]

Learn How to Conserve Water and Save Money with Rain Barrels

Workshop to be held January 17 Learn How to Conserve Water and Save Money with Rain Barrels Pasco County has a way for you to conserve water and save money!  UF/IFAS Pasco County Cooperative Extension Service’s Rain Barrel Workshop, Tuesday, January 17, 2023, will help you learn how to harvest rainwater for your landscape! The workshop costs $57 per person and includes one rain barrel, spigot and instructions.  Seating is limited so please register by January 17, 2023, atRain Barrel Workshop. WHAT:          Rainwater Harvesting/Rain Barrel Workshop WHEN:          Tuesday, January 17, 2023 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. WHERE:       UF/IFAS Extension Pasco Office - 36702 State Road 52 - Dade City, FL HOW:             Pre-registration is required at: mypas.co/RainBarrel Participants will receive a rain barrel with a capacity of around 50 gallons.  The style and color of barrels may vary.  Attendance at the workshop is required to receive the barrel.  Registration and online payment are required.  Please print and bring your ticket as proof of purchase. The Pasco County Cooperative Extension Service assists Pasco County customers by developing and delivering practical, educational programs in environmental horticulture; sustainable agriculture; 4‑H and youth development; and family and consumer sciences.  For more information, including volunteer opportunities, visit our website or call us at 352.518.0156. Read the full article

[craftontempel]

Finally made the #rainbarrel look better. #tiki #tikilife #waterconservation #gardening https://www.instagram.com/p/CgC5kt5v3--/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=