This was great, thanks! I did get a 15 gallon bucket, probably too small for the long term, but believe me, because I have been wrangling with my husband over preparation, and he finally settled for something simple, I was happy. So far he has been overjoyed with all the soap making, garden planning, and stocking up we have been doing, but I think you probably know that even when people you love are in tune it doesn't mean they truly understand the times. We are moving forward, however =) We are Christians and I tend toward Christian channels, which resonate with my spirit so thank you for your wonderful channel.
Since we "went frugal" and became homesteaders I am OBSESSED with rain catchment. We have about 2,000 gallons of rain water catchment so far. One Mother's Day I asked my husband/kids to convert our toilet flushing (we have city water) to rain water. It's saved us a ton of money and we're not voiding into chlorinated water. :) Good video!
I wouldn't waste rainwater on a toilet. You can save your gray water to flush with very easily or better yet go to a composting toilet. What difference does it make if your voiding into chlorinated water? That makes zero sense unless you're joking. The real problem is you are adding to a city sewer system that filters all that sewage out and sends the water right back to you to cook with and drink.
I'd repeat the advice made a year ago by the Forging Freedom Podcast Channel: use a Berkey filter to eliminate chemical and biological contaminents for drinking (potable) water gathered from a rain barrel. One doesn't always know what comes down onto one's roof: from birds, from insects, from squirrels, from smoke and soot out of your own chimney, leaves, dust, roofing materials, and possibly pesticides sprayed by neighboring farmers and work crews. It may not kill you, but why take the chance of drinking water that may be, even slightly, contaminated? Ten minutes, as a rule-of-thumb, sounds good for most loose dust and debris, (if you can be around to divert that rainwater out of your rain barrel); but, a rain shower might not last much longer than ten minutes, and a downpour or wind after that first ten minutes might loosen more stubborn debris. Use a Berkey filter!
I have two rain barrels for gardening. I fine it most convenient to have them open for bucketing out the water so, I put four small goldfish in each barrel, they feed on any mosquito larvae. 👍
Thank you! This is the first video I’ve watched of yours and I so appreciate how easy and accessible you make this process. Options for all budgets and skill levels. I feel like I’m chatting with my neighbor and she’s showing me how easy it is to collect water and she’s going to show me how I can get started immediately. My favorite way to learn a new skill.
It is sad that in some parts of the world the local government will treat you like a criminal for collecting rain. What next breathing to much fresh air
When you break down the word government, you will be shocked.. the word GOVERN= TO STEER,CONTROL.. MENT= COMES FROM THE LATIN ORIGIN, MENTE,WHICH TRANSLATES TO MIND. Therefore government means exactly that,MIND CONTROL...
Have you heard the gossip on chem trails? Full of metals & toxic powders. Have you heard of that? If yes then distilled ( pre steamed ) water is safe to drink. All the rest are not.
I haven't looked into the laws here in Arizona. But they probly made a law saying we can collect all the rain water we want. If that's the case, I can probly collect about a gallon, maybe 2 but that's pushing it out here in Phoenix. It rains but by the time it hits the floor it's already evaporating
Susan Fudge, I understand what you mean, but I am always concerned about tyranny. Since here in Arkansas we are free to collect however much water we want; we have less government control. If the government is taking something that you feel is your right. Stop and do yourself a favor and stand up for what you believe by starting locally. Understanding that people of the U.S. each have a voice of there own empowers any person the possibility to make a change ;)
@Duke Of Prunes in the back of my mind,I hear beavis and Butt head singing, breaking the law breaking the law, breaking the law breaking the law. I need more TP for me bung-hole
Thank you! We are in a drought in Massachusetts! Water restrictions start Monday. The world is different and we have to start preparing. Water is life. You make it look easy!
Be very careful about using a used barrel or bucket for potable water. If it was originally a container for chemicals or solvents the plastic will have absorbed some of the chemicals that were previously in the barrel or bucket, yes, even though it's plastic, and then leach out into the water. There will be trace amounts of the insecticide, solvents, whatever was originally contained in the barrel or bucket. I would not even pick garden vegetables into a chemical bucket, no matter how well you think it's been washed out.
@@1fashionbliss Yes, the Kentwood cooler jugs would be OK. A new "Homer" bucket from Home Depot would be OK, just wash it out. Also, don't use used chemical buckets for animal feed, to make dog bowls, etc, no matter how well you clean them.
Another cleaner would be a charcoal filter, just as you do for a fish tank. I have a flat roof with silicone top, gutter fed catchment into a pipe fed barrel with charcoal filter. works great! Distilling the water is a good idea because all the aluminum and barium in the atmosphere from chem trails, but if you can't it's the next best thing.
Thanks so much for this! Our homestead has NO rain catchment system...yet. We will be catching rain soon for the animals, the gardens, and for emergency storage.
Thanks very informative. I always battle mosquitoes for my garden rain water, this year we've had so much rain I couldn't empty them quick enough so the mosquitoes got crazy bad, I never thought of a sheet nor oil. But here's a tip: I did put up cheap curtain sheers to protect my tomatoes from deer, lets the rain and sun in and so far confuses the deer.
hi Starry, there are a few things about rain water you should know in addition to what you presented here: since you're in the wind shadow of spokane, and even further - the seattle metro area, your air has a higher concentration of nitrous oxides that convert to various nitrogen compounds when the rain falls. so if you're going to catch rain water for cooking and drinking it should be run through an active charcoal filter as it comes down the downspout. the other thing you really need to pay attention to to see if your rain water will be safe to drink is to look to the trees. various mosses, lichens and bromeliads should be present. these are indicator species that give clues to health of the air. the presence of these species will also give the water a slight musty taste since their spores and micro particulates are always suspended in the air, which is how they propagate. again, filter and of course the eternal battle of winged neighbors who invariable leave their droppings on the roof... again.. filter.. so an active charcoal filter will cover all of these issues. another issue is keeping your water from turning green. algae are also present in the air and get washed off into the stream and if your catchment barrel(s) or container allows any light in, your water will turn green. i had a 1700gal underground storage tank for my water catchment system...it just had to be plumbed with a small well pump. then as you mentioned there are areas of idaho where rainwater catchment is regulated by the SRBA otherwise known as the snake river basin adjudication where the nez perce tribe has laid claim to most of the water in the snake river drainage, which encompasses most of the state, parts of utah, oregon, and wyoming. some counties like ada county get really stupid about it so be very careful and do your homework before setting up shop.... the fines are insane.. cheers mike
Mosquitos are bad in AK summers. I buy one or two goldfish and pop 'em in there, since I don't use my catchment for drinking. Cat gets 'em in the fall. The ciiiiiiirclllle of liiiiife, haha.
Timely for me. About to start installing gutters and catching rain this summer. I have an old, 19th Century bottle cistern under the edge of the back of the house (old 19th Century farm house) and will be using it to store the water. It is lined in rock and mortar, actually is quite beautiful just to look at the rock work. The capacity is around 4,000 gallons. The gutters will be downspouted to run into the old cistern. Will be building a wooden lid to go over it with cutouts for the plumbing lines. I purchased a hand pitcher pump to install to pump the water out of the cistern inside the house. Looking for an antique dry sink to mount the pump on. Also, have a Berkey type water filter to clean the water we will consume. I find it appalling that catching water off one's roof is illegal in some states. I would not want to live somewhere like that. To me that is totally insane!
I set a waste basket I tied a nylon rope around, outside my 7th floor window, and caught a basket of rain....not from the building but from the sky! Learned real quick it's not drinkable...needs to be filtered first, so built a filter!! and it was good!!
food grade drums are what you use. for instance agave syrup is put in food grade barrels ot large totes they then go to botteling plant. the barrels and totes are most often sold to the agriculture folks. we have a young man who has made a business being the middle guy. he buys the barrels and sells them to the public. even delivering for a fee. if you get a sealed barrel with a bung on the top. usually 2 of them. you can make a pilot hole right below the shoulder of the barrel below the sealed lid. cut around and then you will have a lid that with some wiggeling nest inside the barrel. when rain is coming we simply remove the lids. but often use a screen to keep the first flush from being full of unwanted particles. we harvest off all roofs and car port. even made some eves to collect. we pump with a submersible pump bought at tractor supply and then move our stored water to another tote in our garden which is fitted with a reducer to fit a hose. all this is up on 2 layers of cinder block leveled with sand under. for a faucet that won't leak . drill the correct size hole for the fauced you will use. then install a bulkhead union. then install your faucet. remember its plastic and will eventually fail. but these will last for years. having done this for many years it is intense sun and heat that breaks the plastic down. harvesting for inside or drinkng water is another way to use rain water. this is much more detail but can be done with some good plumbing skills.
Starry you are an absolute angel and I am so thankful for your videos. I personally LOVE how real, honest, matter-of-fact, kind, caring and LOVING you are! I appreciate honesty and as my kids say...you always "keep it real!" 😉 It's why I love Patera as well. You're both straight shooters. Thank you for blessing us with all of your "know how." You're truly heaven sent. God Bless you and Mr. Hilder always. 💕✝️💕 Lisa
AHH thank you!!! Thats refreshing...often the bad comments really make me feel horrible..always on ein the crowd you know..but when people like you TAKe time to share your goodness..BLESs you..it means alot!!!!!
I live in a 60ft x 40ft metal building. I catch rainwater from the downspouts. With a good rain, I can collect 400 gallons. The rest of the rain water goes down the ditch.The 55 gallon plastic barrels cost me $10 each. I set the barrels on 2-ft high stands for gravity feed to the gardens. I cut the downspouts off so that the downspout elbow will drain into the barrels. I covered the barrels with old drapery sheers to keep out mosquitoes, and to filter out the trash from the roof. I screwed 1/2 inch ID (Inside Diameter) spigots about 4 inches from the barrel bottoms so that dirt won't clog the spigots. But they got clogged anyway. The male spigot threads will stick inside the plastic barrel. I screwed 1/2 inch elbows or couplings to the threads to hold the spigot tight. Beside each of the 3 plastic barrels I put a steel 55 gal barrel for overflow. I cut a 4 inch diameter hole toward the top of each plastic barrel, into which I put a 4 inch PVC pipe that overhangs the metal barrels. They leak. But who cares? And the overflow barrels also overflow. I get the water from the overflow barrels by filling 1-gallon plastic milk and orange juice jugs. The BPH in the jugs may be a problem. But I use them anyway. A note about the sheers netting: Your barrel may have a lip at the top. I cut the sheers big enough to lap 4 or 5 inches over the barrel lip. I use bungee cords in the lip to seal the sheer so skeeters can't get in.
I cook with wine and usually the wine comes in glass gallon bottles. After collecting and purifying the water I store it in the wine bottles out of the Sunlight. HOWEVER on very sunny days I put the bottles outside in the sunlight which will further purifying the water via the Ultraviolet Rays from the sun.
@@molovesentertainment1989 When I first started harvesting rain water I used several 55 gallon drums and the average window screen to filter out of large particles. I made sure that they didn't create any algae by painting the outside of the drums BLACK. Then I got some ceramic filters and regular fish tank filters. But you can use WHITE bedsheets or tee shirts to further filter the water. Now to make it POTABLE (DRINKING) water you have to boil it for 15 minutes in a ""RAPID BOIL" Then add eight drops of regular Clorox Bleach to every gallon of water. Cover it until it is cool enough to put into another clean 55 gallon drum that is painted BLACK to prevent algae from growing. Store in a cool dry place. This is the way I learned it during my CIVIL DEFENSE TRAINING during the Cold War Era and in the Navy Survival Training. It's not good for salt water. Now you can buy an ULTRA VIOLET water STERILIZER system after you have filtered the water. The ULTRAVIOLET water STERILIZER system is great for water storage systems. I now use a large scale rain water harvesting system and I store up to four million gallons of water. I use an inexpensive Aquarium pump to circulate the water to the ULTRA VIOLET WATER STERILIZER LAMPS. I started using the ULTRA VIOLET WATER STERILIZER SYSTEMS in 2009. How do I get FOUR million gallons of rain water. I actually live on an island that has a long rainy season. I built an Olympic sized SWIMMING pool which holds four million gallons of water. I collect the rain water from my roofs and runn off. After filtering it with several large scale filters I use PVC pipes and GRAVITY to fill the SWIMMING pool which I converted to a water storage system. I now have several Olympic sized SWIMMING pools that have been converted into water storage tanks. I use solar water heaters to make hot water and solar, wind and HYDRO electric power for electricity to run electricity for my house and water PURIFICATION system. CAUTION: For health reasons I use this system. But if YOU are going to use this system you MUST factor in how much water you are going to use daily. For example the amount of water for bathing, drinking and cooking daily. Less than five gallons of water is good just for bathing. We NEED about two gallons of water per person daily just for drinking. You must learn about GRAY WATER AND BLACK WATER. Gray water I use for my plants such as vegetable and fruits. But before I do that I filter it many times and boil it. BLACK water is your used toilet water. Now believe it or not urine is a great fertilizer. Because when urine comes out of your body it is sterile. Many major league baseball teams use urine for their fields. Also urine can be distilled and converted into drinking water. You can experiment with urine by buying several gallon bottles and peeing into them. You will see how much you urinate on a daily basis if you are not diabetic. Now there are residential REVERSE OSMOSIS water PURIFICATION system that fit under your kitchen sink. I use plain rain water to wash my car and clothing and bedding. I filter it and of course I boil it for my dishes and clothes and bedding. Unfiltered rain water I use to wash my cars. Remember you can use your roof and or rain water runoff. The bigger your roof the more water you can harvest. I would send you pictures of my systems but I really don't like posting them on the internet. But I must tell you that the next GLOBAL conflict will be over DRINKING (potable) WATER. The next GLOBAL CURRENCY will be DRINKING (potable) water. Can you imagine a test tube of DRINKING water being worth the equivalent to TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS? So do some research on this subject.
Thx for this video. I am catching rain only for watering plants so I don't worry about the "dirtiness" of the water off our metal roof. But I would like to start distilling some for drinking. When It rains I say "Free water is falling from the sky!" God is good!! :-)
Keep in mind, if you use a black food-grade bucket or a black metal trash can, you can heat the water with the sun. I've got a 6 gallon enamel black metal can riding on a 5-gallon bucket dolly that wheels in and out of the sun, giving me 6 gallons of water for laundry or dishes---or drinking, if I load in potable water. Sure I have to use a dipper or a pitcher, but hey its free hot water!
I hope today finds you with a smile. This video is where your story starts for me. Jumped to the about link for some reason mid video. I hope today finds you with a smile.
Berkey isn't what it claims to be. People who own them have paid to have the water tested at individual labs and it doesn't filter out everything it says it does.
@Jade O 'Hara Do you periodically get your well water tested, say at a local university for any contaminates like pesticides, fertilizer, metals? Chemicals leach through the soil into ground waters where wells get contaminated. Just a thought.
Buy a water distiller. H2O labs. For the water you drink don’t worry about minerals you’ll get them from food and multi vitamins . Distilled water for drinking and the rest can be filtered whit the Berkeley
yeah I'm sure homo sapiens have been doing that for tens of thousands of years all over the planet. How ever did we survive without your Berkey Filtration system?!? Jeez...
I can definitely see your point however back then the world was way more clean and the lakes weren’t infested with toxic chemicals. You know? I think as humans we made the choice to let this happen...
Starry , I have been placing buckets around the perimeter of the garden for years. I have to carry water to the garden from the house otherwise ( long story) . So those buckets catch the rain and I water the garden with it. No time for bugs to lay eggs, I use it right up.
we live in Oregon, hence we have to check out our 'man' right to catch rain, with that being said our property floods with any amount of rain! thanks for the oil tip:)
Californians may legally capture and use rainwater harvested from rooftops. Governor Brown of California signed the Rainwater Recapture Act of 2012 making it legal for California residents to collect rainwater.
Great idea using a sheet for a filter. I use some old window screens (free) and cattle mineral supplement tubs($5/ea at an auction) for my system, but I only use it for my garden.
Incredibly good point about waiting for the water collection. The more time the rain has to wash off the roof for you, the cleaner your collected water will be. Always install a diverter.
I have a off grid 22 foot camp trailer that I'm building into tiny home , I'm going to ad tin roof so I can clect rain water into my drinking water tank inside
In Hawaii we use swimming pools that have tin sides for our water catchment 7500gal for our back garden and 10,000 gal for the house we also have 2 house filters and UV light also so we can drink our water safely.
Hilder, the quote from Job 5:10 was amazing, it could be used in court to prove that over 2000 years ago God established his ownership of the rain with the earth to be the "Final Destination". (for the states claiming ownership of the rain water) I loved the video hon.
We use food grade IBCs for rain catch. Non-food grade tends to leech too much toxic stuff in to the water for watering crops. And a lid keeps the bugs, mice, etc out. Black barrels are a great sun catcher for winter night heating in the green house.
Siphon tubing with spigot, pedal pump, transfers from single potable collector to multiple storage containers, solar- rechargeable battery- powered pump, and controllable rates/ratios via separate 'y' tubing for both heated + other water, Etc., are further examples of options.
good timing.. this is my project this weekend. I am harvesting my rain water for my dog.. he drinks (not kidding you 2-3 gallons a day) and on my off grid location, that is a lot of water to haul in for a week at a time. ;)
most of the year I distill our rain water for drinking. Let me tell you, the distiller hardly needs cleaning! For about a month or so I distll tap water, what yuck accumulates in 5 rounds is just disgusting! Once we run our little portable AC unit and the dehumidifier I use that water, same as with rain water it is clean. I also use it to shower/ wash myself with it, set a bucket in the sun if I want it warm. Sad thing is, our waterlily is always the same, we pay so much for the first 6 or 8.000 gallons, no matter how much or little we use of that. But at least it is clean water. And I do not let the first 10 min run off, half the time I am not home when it rains.
You might check. I've read that drinking a lot of distilled water can have a negative effect on your health because you don't get essential minerals. Happy Trails
Your body only reduces the excess toxins and minerals not needed for the body a good thing. Your essential minerals are stored and by the body and are mostly from food. Tap water has more harmful additives than it has useful minerals. Don't listen to the fear control governments.
Use a diverter to discard the first water. Take a pipe that the water will go to and cap at the bottom with a tiny hole for drainage. Put a tennis ball in there and a restrictor to about 1.5" near the top and a path to the pipe to your storage tank. As the water comes in the pipe files and the ball floats up and blocks the pipe causing the water to go to the tank. A good rain off a barn roof can fill 4 300 gallon IBCs in an hour or so. And IBCs are cheap and usueally have large ball valves at the bottom.
Another reason I live in Cambodia. It's hard to find things here that ARE illegal! Starry, I am an American. Here, I use what is considered an excessive amount of water on our farm. But, that is only around 25 gallons per day, tops.
I would add the recommended dose of bleach onto those barrels to ensure there is no bacteria or viruses in your drinking water. City water contains chlorine, the active ingredient of bleach for public safety. It's a small enough amount you can't smell it and I'm sensitive to the stuff. Dosing info is on the Clorox website and many other places. Just google it. I gallon of bleach provides 10's of thousands of gallons of potable water.
I need that blue barrel! It matches my little building we just got, we are painting it sort of that color of blue so some of those barrels would be cool to sit around my building to collect the water off of it for our garden!
"Stop and don't do a mr hilder"😂😂😂😂😂. You do make me laugh. I actually have a rain barrel and use it to water my garden in the summer. It's not only legal here but the city sells them cheaply.
Julia Bradley That awsome you are able to collect rain water. It just blows my my mind that city's will regulate against the collection of what God gives freely. Hope life finds you well. Have a amazing day.:)
If you have adequate rainfall, like here in the Midwest, you can almost meet all of your water needs with rainwater. If you can do it you can use a 1000 or 1500 gallon cistern tank (available at many plumbing supply and farm stores). The best way of setting it up is to bury it below ground level far enough to be below the frost line. Set up a food grade barrel(s) for the rainwater to go into, and make a filter of gravel, sand and activated charcoal. This will help to remove many particle pollutants. Then set up some lines for the water to go into the cistern. You can use either a hand pump or an electric shallow well pump to raise the water out of the cistern and pressurize it to go into you waterlines.
Ok I must have missed something. .. What did you do to the water from when Mr. Hilder wanted to drink the water and the time you actually gave it to him? I'm sorry it's early. .. lol
We built our little pop up camper conversion under a big pine tree for shade but did not forsee the issue of mucho pine needle and moss debris that would fall from the tree on our metal roof and into our rain barrel. I temporarily solved the problem by doubling up a pair of nylon stockings and placing it over the gutter as a filter. Ok for washing but I still won't drink it.
HTH chlorine tablets will sanitize the water. They sell it at Walmart. Same thing they use in swimming pools. A little bit gos a long way. A piece the size of a grain of rice will sanitize 55 gallons.
We made many rain catchment barrels that collect water from everywhere. Our garage, our storage sheds, our greenhouse, and our chicken house. Lots of rainwater here!
50 gallons won't go far for watering a garden. Initially I was figuring on connecting a couple dozen 50 gallon barrels -- but quickly realized that at $30 a pop plus all the plumbing and hassle to connect, - I'd be better off with a 1500 gallon tank which cost right at $1000. They are also thick enough black plastic to prevent algae growth. Your system certainly can provide for necessary water for a couple though and is simple and quick. If you decide to GO BIG -- "Off Grid with Doug and Stacy" did a good job documenting their rain catchment with 2 x 1500 gallon tanks.
You must have a huge garden! Doug has an awesome water system. The Hilders have a year-round stream that they pipe into their house. I think it provides adequate water for them.
Gail Pugsley No springs here - normally rely on a very deep well. So depends on where you are - what works for them there won't be sufficient for everyone everywhere. Sadly. Good comment Gail.
ive been off the grid in canada now in a customized 3 seasons travel trailer for 4 years. the only time ive been seriously ill is directly attributed to my reliance on rain water. the further away from urban areas the safer you are but you should always boil any untreated water before cusumsion. good video though. keep on smilin
do you not have rainwater tanks available in usa ? almost all hardware stores here would be able to get you one or even a water bladder for under he deck or floor ? to hold a few hundreds of litres
Awesome idea! Love how it works, the earth provides up with what we need! Only concern pollutants in the air being captured by the water, what can we do then? Personally I say filter the water through coconut charcoal which is a natural process used by water filtration all over the world! What do you guys think?
Hi sister do you use a cover on top of drums ? How can I prevent water from freezing in winter? Do I need to purify water Thank you God Bless you happy to find your channel
Where I live in Ohio you can catch it but you have to pay ,,,,is that RIDICULOUS! And even if you don't save it now everybody's sewer bill has went up according to how much rain water comes off your house and runs into the sewer . Who ever thought you would have to pay to save chemtrail rain water. I can't believe they don't have to filter that water better by her ...Let me tell you this I do maintenance and I have seen a correlation between people getting sick and the air filters I change out every month on the house furnaces. Months where people get sick a lot those air filters are much dirtier verse months people seem to be more healthy ..I wouldn't trust rain water from the air unless it was boiled and filtered .
Get a SEPTIC TANK and you won't have to pay for water from the rainfall and runoff. I'd be damn if I would pay for rain water. They can kiss my ass in Macy's Window on a Chinese New Year if they even think about me paying for rain water and rain runoff.
Please show us your Garden. Talk about. 1. The mounding. Why you like it ?, How it works?, Benefits, Cons. 2. Whats in the mulch. How deep it is around the plants. How long it took for the mulch to look so nice. 3. Chicken manure : How often, how much, which plants. 4. other?
We are making a rain catchment system little at a time. We wouldn't care if it's illegal just got to be careful. Trying to cut our water bill in half. To dig a well here they charge arm and a leg. So we going with the catchment system. Thank you so much for the tips on how to keep the water clean. ❤😎❤. We use the same Cooking oil we love it.
amber rivers homestead A well is a wonderful thing. It's like rain catchment on overdrive. An enormous filtration system (compacted soil is a filter), an enormous catch area, and underground storage that naturally keeps out algae and mosquitos. If the local drilling companies want to charge an arm and a leg, maybe you should give drilling your own well a try. There are a few good videos on RUclips of people drilling their own well (plenty of bad ones too though, watch out). I know, it seems like an impossible task at first, but you just whittle away at it and it CAN be done. Commercial well drillers sink half a million dollars (or more) into their fancy rigs, which is why they HAVE to charge a lot and have to drill much deeper than necessary in order to justify their fancy rig and charging so much. Truth is, most of the DIY well drillers find water at around 50ft, as that seems to be about where the weight of all the soil on top seems to compress the soil below hard enough to hold water. A $60 Li-ion cordless drill attached to a length of PVC pipe with a steel coupling on the end might be enough if you don't hit any rocks (grind some notches into the coupling to give it some teeth). You can evacuate cuttings using an air lift water pump (nothing to get damaged like in a centrifugal pump). Some people even use a $50 earth auger bit and do the job completely by hand. Dropping the gym membership will make that pay for itself in short order! Especially once you hit water. :)
Potability is also bacteria free water. Not just contaminants. Your covers dont meet that requirement. Dipping into the barrel is not a good idea for consumption. Older people, babies and people with compromised immune systems should avoid water that is not deemed potable. Bacteria doubles in 20 minutes.
We JUST finished getting two of our rain barrels ready with spigots and elevated up off the ground. I do think we're going to need to add submersible pumps for them though. Greg (my husband) and I are looking into getting small, solar powered pumps if possible. We plan on getting at least two more barrels for now and more later after we move to our own land. Right now I'm using them for watering the gardens because we are currently renting our space and don't have outside spigots. :)
I live in a apartment, fortunately, with a large patio. I'm allowed to do whatever I want in terms of planting a garden, the problem though, I don't have access to water. I'm wanting to purchase a 55 gallo rain catcher. I can only rely on water from the sky and no roof from the drainage system. With no experience in rainwater collection would rainwater collection from the sky be enough for gardening? The dirt is more clay so, per your suggestion on another video, I found a tree cutting company willing to give me wood chips for free and will place them on the dirt for a rich soft dirt and, to use as compost ready to use for next spring. Hopefully, it will take care of the hard clay issue by then. I also plan to have an above ground garden with legs in the future. I watch your videos all the time and appreciate listening to your advice. God bless you always, Cat
I just stumbled upon your channel and I got to say I love you guys yall are speaking my language. Self reliance . Righteous I'm diggin it. Be forever blessed Jah Rastafari Selassie I Jah.
Hello Starry and Mr. Hilder: You guys are great...! I enjoy all of your videos that you share with us. I find you both to be an inspiration. Be Blessed and have a great day...!
Love your bible verse at the end from Job 5. Do you let the rainfall through a sheet on top of a catchment system? How long should they be covered? Is it okay to put lids on containers that hold water outdoors? Do you have to worry about evaporation during summer?
Unfortunately its illegal here in WV sucks because it would save me on my water bill after giving water to chickens and my garden it does alot to my bill but loved this video very informative god bless gal
if its rain its free.even if theres ridiculous laws.God gave rain NOT Regulation if we are doimg whats right shouldnt we rely on God to protect us against these ridiculous regulations that prohibit nature
10 minutes of rain here in NE TX can be a lot of water. I've seen recommendations from 1/16th to 1/8th of an inch to routed into a first flush, and it's not too difficult to figure out the math to get the gallons of first flush capacity you need.
You have to be kidding me!! How can they stop you from collecting the rain? Do they now issue fines for puddles? The oil's a good idea for keeping bugs & beasties off the surface, do you need a certain depth & does it need to be replenished?
Forging Freedom Channel I can understand issuing warnings about drinking it, even strongly worded ones; but I just can't see how it's enforceable. They ban the use of hosepipes because every summer there's a drought, partly to do with leaking pipes underground but more to do with the outrageous use of water without a thought to where it came from, like running the washing machine for two t-shirts, put people like that on a water meter and WATCH them change their ways. But as a resource for watering your garden saving rain just makes sense. (in fact the plant's water is probably purer than the bleached, chlorinated & God knows what-ed chemically cleaned sewage that comes out of the taps 😊) I'm baffled by it.
It's illegal in Colorado, they say it belongs to the state. I think it's crazy because most of the time people who collect water are using it to water their gardens, so it's going back into the ground water....crazy, crazy
Softly and Tenderly Does the 'State' also own air & sky rights? I wonder how they'd react to thousands of letters & emails demanding that they come & a) collect their rainwater which is lying in puddles on your driveway? b) stop their birds from stripping the Cherries off your tree, c) stop their birds from waking you up by chirping outside your bedroom window at 04:30 every morning. It's just ludicrous isn't it?
A tip i have a drum in my hunting stand its very nice i have a net and just for safety i use this chlorine pods of drinking water i forgot the name of them but there safe
I have no problem with American and other accents, But I thought Starry was saying "Ruff" which was the term for an Elizabethan style "ruffed" collar worn around the neck. In The Uk, we say roof as we extend the double o sound. Great info and super video Starry no complaints! please keep saying things your way! Off now to tell my wife your oil on the water tip. Thanks a lot.
Please do some research before you scream TYRANNY! The fact is that the Prior Appropriation Law was enacted because gold miners in California were feuding over water for their mining operations. Their feud went all the way to the Supreme Court which established water rights as separate from land ownership. It was a capitalist system that decreed water rights could be bought and sold out from under land owners. Western states have been following established law since then. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior-appropriation_water_rights
It rains like no other here on the washington coast. The only reason we don't save rain water is because the city charges more per gallon going down the drain. Then they charge for how much water shed by your roof, and emergency ambulance services. Yup ambulance services. The actual water is pennies per gallon but it all adds up to around $150 a month
I use 10 gallons a week for drinking, dishes, bathing, for me and my dog. But i go easy on it. Kinda roughing it style. Can confirm that you can bathe, wash your hair, mine is very long, even shave with one gallon.
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I’m not even into harvesting rain water, but this lady and this video has convinced me I need to do it!
I distill my rain water.. most purest form imo
Drakilicious no chem tard trails..fool
@@chicofromph33nix64 how do you do that?
@@1missyjayjay Boil it............
Just don't drink it,,research it...
This was great, thanks! I did get a 15 gallon bucket, probably too small for the long term, but believe me, because I have been wrangling with my husband over preparation, and he finally settled for something simple, I was happy. So far he has been overjoyed with all the soap making, garden planning, and stocking up we have been doing, but I think you probably know that even when people you love are in tune it doesn't mean they truly understand the times. We are moving forward, however =) We are Christians and I tend toward Christian channels, which resonate with my spirit so thank you for your wonderful channel.
Since we "went frugal" and became homesteaders I am OBSESSED with rain catchment. We have about 2,000 gallons of rain water catchment so far. One Mother's Day I asked my husband/kids to convert our toilet flushing (we have city water) to rain water. It's saved us a ton of money and we're not voiding into chlorinated water. :) Good video!
I wouldn't waste rainwater on a toilet. You can save your gray water to flush with very easily or better yet go to a composting toilet. What difference does it make if your voiding into chlorinated water? That makes zero sense unless you're joking. The real problem is you are adding to a city sewer system that filters all that sewage out and sends the water right back to you to cook with and drink.
I'd repeat the advice made a year ago by the Forging Freedom Podcast Channel: use a Berkey filter to eliminate chemical and biological contaminents for drinking (potable) water gathered from a rain barrel. One doesn't always know what comes down onto one's roof: from birds, from insects, from squirrels, from smoke and soot out of your own chimney, leaves, dust, roofing materials, and possibly pesticides sprayed by neighboring farmers and work crews. It may not kill you, but why take the chance of drinking water that may be, even slightly, contaminated? Ten minutes, as a rule-of-thumb, sounds good for most loose dust and debris, (if you can be around to divert that rainwater out of your rain barrel); but, a rain shower might not last much longer than ten minutes, and a downpour or wind after that first ten minutes might loosen more stubborn debris. Use a Berkey filter!
I have two rain barrels for gardening. I fine it most convenient to have them open for bucketing out the water so, I put four small goldfish in each barrel, they feed on any mosquito larvae. 👍
Thank you! This is the first video I’ve watched of yours and I so appreciate how easy and accessible you make this process. Options for all budgets and skill levels. I feel like I’m chatting with my neighbor and she’s showing me how easy it is to collect water and she’s going to show me how I can get started immediately. My favorite way to learn a new skill.
It is sad that in some parts of the world the local government will treat you like a criminal for collecting rain. What next breathing to much fresh air
Yes that's next !!!
Only in the Russian Republican Trump USA states is ilegal...
bodymotionchile you’ve bumped your head. Trump, nor republicans have nothing to do with it
When you break down the word government, you will be shocked.. the word GOVERN= TO STEER,CONTROL..
MENT= COMES FROM THE LATIN ORIGIN, MENTE,WHICH TRANSLATES TO MIND.
Therefore government means exactly that,MIND CONTROL...
Have you heard the gossip on chem trails? Full of metals & toxic powders. Have you heard of that? If yes then distilled ( pre steamed ) water is safe to drink. All the rest are not.
It's only illegal if we the people allow it
Amen. :D
I'm pretty sure somewhere in Australia it's a law that you have to harvest rain water?? I may be wrong but correct me please I wanna know
exactly
I haven't looked into the laws here in Arizona. But they probly made a law saying we can collect all the rain water we want. If that's the case, I can probly collect about a gallon, maybe 2 but that's pushing it out here in Phoenix. It rains but by the time it hits the floor it's already evaporating
What left wing liberal state is she in?
I doubt people watching this video really give a damn if it is illegal in their state/county.
Susan Fudge, I understand what you mean, but I am always concerned about tyranny. Since here in Arkansas we are free to collect however much water we want; we have less government control. If the government is taking something that you feel is your right. Stop and do yourself a favor and stand up for what you believe by starting locally. Understanding that people of the U.S. each have a voice of there own empowers any person the possibility to make a change ;)
michelle delancrae - arkansas may be better on some things...for now...but they are worse on others, like mixing church and state (sunday laws).
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@Duke Of Prunes in the back of my mind,I hear beavis and Butt head singing, breaking the law breaking the law, breaking the law breaking the law. I need more TP for me bung-hole
What are they gonna make illegal next? The air we breath?
Thank you! We are in a drought in Massachusetts! Water restrictions start Monday. The world is different and we have to start preparing. Water is life. You make it look easy!
Be very careful about using a used barrel or bucket for potable water. If it was originally a container for chemicals or solvents the plastic will have absorbed some of the chemicals that were previously in the barrel or bucket, yes, even though it's plastic, and then leach out into the water. There will be trace amounts of the insecticide, solvents, whatever was originally contained in the barrel or bucket. I would not even pick garden vegetables into a chemical bucket, no matter how well you think it's been washed out.
Hi, we purchase Kentwood water for our water cooler. Would it be safe to reuse this empty bottles?
@@1fashionbliss Yes, the Kentwood cooler jugs would be OK. A new "Homer" bucket from Home Depot would be OK, just wash it out. Also, don't use used chemical buckets for animal feed, to make dog bowls, etc, no matter how well you clean them.
Another cleaner would be a charcoal filter, just as you do for a fish tank. I have a flat roof with silicone top, gutter fed catchment into a pipe fed barrel with charcoal filter. works great! Distilling the water is a good idea because all the aluminum and barium in the atmosphere from chem trails, but if you can't it's the next best thing.
who cares if its "illegal"? Harvest it anyway.
Thats what I say..no one owns what God created!
property is nothing more than a made up concept :)
Your right on that account
Alaska One the one & only God who created the Earth and everything else, for that matter.
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Thanks so much for this! Our homestead has NO rain catchment system...yet. We will be catching rain soon for the animals, the gardens, and for emergency storage.
Thanks very informative. I always battle mosquitoes for my garden rain water, this year we've had so much rain I couldn't empty them quick enough so the mosquitoes got crazy bad, I never thought of a sheet nor oil. But here's a tip: I did put up cheap curtain sheers to protect my tomatoes from deer, lets the rain and sun in and so far confuses the deer.
First if you are catching rain water- don’t be telling the world about it.
hi Starry,
there are a few things about rain water you should know in addition to what you presented here:
since you're in the wind shadow of spokane, and even further - the seattle metro area, your air has a higher concentration of nitrous oxides that convert to various nitrogen compounds when the rain falls.
so if you're going to catch rain water for cooking and drinking it should be run through an active charcoal filter as it comes down the downspout.
the other thing you really need to pay attention to to see if your rain water will be safe to drink is to look to the trees. various mosses, lichens and bromeliads should be present. these are indicator species that give clues to health of the air. the presence of these species will also give the water a slight musty taste since their spores and micro particulates are always suspended in the air, which is how they propagate. again, filter
and of course the eternal battle of winged neighbors who invariable leave their droppings on the roof... again.. filter..
so an active charcoal filter will cover all of these issues.
another issue is keeping your water from turning green. algae are also present in the air and get washed off into the stream and if your catchment barrel(s) or container allows any light in, your water will turn green. i had a 1700gal underground storage tank for my water catchment system...it just had to be plumbed with a small well pump.
then as you mentioned there are areas of idaho where rainwater catchment is regulated by the SRBA otherwise known as the snake river basin adjudication where the nez perce tribe has laid claim to most of the water in the snake river drainage, which encompasses most of the state, parts of utah, oregon, and wyoming. some counties like ada county get really stupid about it so be very careful and do your homework before setting up shop.... the fines are insane..
cheers
mike
Mosquitos are bad in AK summers. I buy one or two goldfish and pop 'em in there, since I don't use my catchment for drinking. Cat gets 'em in the fall. The ciiiiiiirclllle of liiiiife, haha.
Timely for me. About to start installing gutters and catching rain this summer. I have an old, 19th Century bottle cistern under the edge of the back of the house (old 19th Century farm house) and will be using it to store the water. It is lined in rock and mortar, actually is quite beautiful just to look at the rock work. The capacity is around 4,000 gallons. The gutters will be downspouted to run into the old cistern. Will be building a wooden lid to go over it with cutouts for the plumbing lines. I purchased a hand pitcher pump to install to pump the water out of the cistern inside the house. Looking for an antique dry sink to mount the pump on. Also, have a Berkey type water filter to clean the water we will consume. I find it appalling that catching water off one's roof is illegal in some states. I would not want to live somewhere like that. To me that is totally insane!
It's going to happen . more often soon with the Elite Goverment's Officeals telling people what they can and can't do ...
Probably more to do with keeping utilities operational. Everybody pays a school tax on your city taxes even though you don't have kids.
Your system sounds amazing.
I set a waste basket I tied a nylon rope around, outside my 7th floor window, and caught a basket of rain....not from the building but from the sky! Learned real quick it's not drinkable...needs to be filtered first, so built a filter!! and it was good!!
food grade drums are what you use. for instance agave syrup is put in food grade barrels ot large totes they then go to botteling plant. the barrels and totes are most often sold to the agriculture folks. we have a young man who has made a business being the middle guy. he buys the barrels and sells them to the public. even delivering for a fee. if you get a sealed barrel with a bung on the top. usually 2 of them. you can make a pilot hole right below the shoulder of the barrel below the sealed lid. cut around and then you will have a lid that with some wiggeling nest inside the barrel. when rain is coming we simply remove the lids. but often use a screen to keep the first flush from being full of unwanted particles. we harvest off all roofs and car port. even made some eves to collect. we pump with a submersible pump bought at tractor supply and then move our stored water to another tote in our garden which is fitted with a reducer to fit a hose. all this is up on 2 layers of cinder block leveled with sand under. for a faucet that won't leak . drill the correct size hole for the fauced you will use. then install a bulkhead union. then install your faucet. remember its plastic and will eventually fail. but these will last for years. having done this for many years it is intense sun and heat that breaks the plastic down. harvesting for inside or drinkng water is another way to use rain water. this is much more detail but can be done with some good plumbing skills.
Starry you are an absolute angel and I am so thankful for your videos. I personally LOVE how real, honest, matter-of-fact, kind, caring and LOVING you are! I appreciate honesty and as my kids say...you always "keep it real!" 😉 It's why I love Patera as well. You're both straight shooters. Thank you for blessing us with all of your "know how." You're truly heaven sent. God Bless you and Mr. Hilder always. 💕✝️💕 Lisa
AHH thank you!!! Thats refreshing...often the bad comments really make me feel horrible..always on ein the crowd you know..but when people like you TAKe time to share your goodness..BLESs you..it means alot!!!!!
I live in a 60ft x 40ft metal building. I catch rainwater from the downspouts. With a good rain, I can collect 400 gallons. The rest of the rain water goes down the ditch.The 55 gallon plastic barrels cost me $10 each. I set the barrels on 2-ft high stands for gravity feed to the gardens. I cut the downspouts off so that the downspout elbow will drain into the barrels. I covered the barrels with old drapery sheers to keep out mosquitoes, and to filter out the trash from the roof. I screwed 1/2 inch ID (Inside Diameter) spigots about 4 inches from the barrel bottoms so that dirt won't clog the spigots. But they got clogged anyway. The male spigot threads will stick inside the plastic barrel. I screwed 1/2 inch elbows or couplings to the threads to hold the spigot tight. Beside each of the 3 plastic barrels I put a steel 55 gal barrel for overflow. I cut a 4 inch diameter hole toward the top of each plastic barrel, into which I put a 4 inch PVC pipe that overhangs the metal barrels. They leak. But who cares? And the overflow barrels also overflow. I get the water from the overflow barrels by filling 1-gallon plastic milk and orange juice jugs. The BPH in the jugs may be a problem. But I use them anyway.
A note about the sheers netting: Your barrel may have a lip at the top. I cut the sheers big enough to lap 4 or 5 inches over the barrel lip. I use bungee cords in the lip to seal the sheer so skeeters can't get in.
MrGruffy 44 bungee cord idea= brilliant!
I cook with wine and usually the wine comes in glass gallon bottles. After collecting and purifying the water I store it in the wine bottles out of the Sunlight.
HOWEVER on very sunny days I put the bottles outside in the sunlight which will further purifying the water via the Ultraviolet Rays from the sun.
@@bohemoth1 ok after I collect the rain. What do I do to prepare for drinking please?
@@molovesentertainment1989
When I first started harvesting rain water I used several 55 gallon drums and the average window screen to filter out of large particles. I made sure that they didn't create any algae by painting the outside of the drums BLACK.
Then I got some ceramic filters and regular fish tank filters. But you can use WHITE bedsheets or tee shirts to further filter the water. Now to make it POTABLE (DRINKING) water you have to boil it for 15 minutes in a ""RAPID BOIL"
Then add eight drops of regular Clorox Bleach to every gallon of water. Cover it until it is cool enough to put into another clean 55 gallon drum that is painted BLACK to prevent algae from growing. Store in a cool dry place.
This is the way I learned it during my CIVIL DEFENSE TRAINING during the Cold War Era and in the Navy Survival Training. It's not good for salt water.
Now you can buy an ULTRA VIOLET water STERILIZER system after you have filtered the water. The ULTRAVIOLET water STERILIZER system is great for water storage systems. I now use a large scale rain water harvesting system and I store up to four million gallons of water. I use an inexpensive Aquarium pump to circulate the water to the ULTRA VIOLET WATER STERILIZER LAMPS. I started using the ULTRA VIOLET WATER STERILIZER SYSTEMS in 2009. How do I get FOUR million gallons of rain water. I actually live on an island that has a long rainy season. I built an Olympic sized SWIMMING pool which holds four million gallons of water. I collect the rain water from my roofs and runn off. After filtering it with several large scale filters I use PVC pipes and GRAVITY to fill the SWIMMING pool which I converted to a water storage system. I now have several Olympic sized SWIMMING pools that have been converted into water storage tanks. I use solar water heaters to make hot water and solar, wind and HYDRO electric power for electricity to run electricity for my house and water PURIFICATION system.
CAUTION:
For health reasons I use this system. But if YOU are going to use this system you MUST factor in how much water you are going to use daily. For example the amount of water for bathing, drinking and cooking daily. Less than five gallons of water is good just for bathing.
We NEED about two gallons of water per person daily just for drinking.
You must learn about GRAY WATER AND BLACK WATER.
Gray water I use for my plants such as vegetable and fruits. But before I do that I filter it many times and boil it.
BLACK water is your used toilet water.
Now believe it or not urine is a great fertilizer. Because when urine comes out of your body it is sterile. Many major league baseball teams use urine for their fields. Also urine can be distilled and converted into drinking water. You can experiment with urine by buying several gallon bottles and peeing into them. You will see how much you urinate on a daily basis if you are not diabetic.
Now there are residential REVERSE OSMOSIS water PURIFICATION system that fit under your kitchen sink. I use plain rain water to wash my car and clothing and bedding. I filter it and of course I boil it for my dishes and clothes and bedding. Unfiltered rain water I use to wash my cars. Remember you can use your roof and or rain water runoff. The bigger your roof the more water you can harvest. I would send you pictures of my systems but I really don't like posting them on the internet.
But I must tell you that the next GLOBAL conflict will be over DRINKING (potable) WATER.
The next GLOBAL CURRENCY will be DRINKING (potable) water. Can you imagine a test tube of DRINKING water being worth the equivalent to TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS?
So do some research on this subject.
@@molovesentertainment1989
Get a good filter like a Birkey filter with charcoal filters to filter before you drink it.
Thx for this video. I am catching rain only for watering plants so I don't worry about the "dirtiness" of the water off our metal roof. But I would like to start distilling some for drinking. When It rains I say "Free water is falling from the sky!" God is good!! :-)
Keep in mind, if you use a black food-grade bucket or a black metal trash can, you can heat the water with the sun. I've got a 6 gallon enamel black metal can riding on a 5-gallon bucket dolly that wheels in and out of the sun, giving me 6 gallons of water for laundry or dishes---or drinking, if I load in potable water. Sure I have to use a dipper or a pitcher, but hey its free hot water!
I hope today finds you with a smile. This video is where your story starts for me. Jumped to the about link for some reason mid video. I hope today finds you with a smile.
Pour that rain water in a Berkey Filtration system and you are good to go
Berkey isn't what it claims to be. People who own them have paid to have the water tested at individual labs and it doesn't filter out everything it says it does.
@Jade O 'Hara Do you periodically get your well water tested, say at a local university for any contaminates like pesticides, fertilizer, metals? Chemicals leach through the soil into ground waters where wells get contaminated. Just a thought.
Buy a water distiller. H2O labs. For the water you drink don’t worry about minerals you’ll get them from food and multi vitamins . Distilled water for drinking and the rest can be filtered whit the Berkeley
yeah I'm sure homo sapiens have been doing that for tens of thousands of years all over the planet. How ever did we survive without your Berkey Filtration system?!? Jeez...
I can definitely see your point however back then the world was way more clean and the lakes weren’t infested with toxic chemicals. You know? I think as humans we made the choice to let this happen...
Starry , I have been placing buckets around the perimeter of the garden for years. I have to carry water to the garden from the house otherwise ( long story) . So those buckets catch
the rain and I water the garden with it. No time for bugs to lay eggs, I use it right up.
we live in Oregon, hence we have to check out our 'man' right to catch rain, with that being said our property floods with any amount of rain! thanks for the oil tip:)
Californians may legally capture and use rainwater harvested from rooftops. Governor Brown of California signed the Rainwater Recapture Act of 2012 making it legal for California residents to collect rainwater.
Great idea using a sheet for a filter. I use some old window screens (free) and cattle mineral supplement tubs($5/ea at an auction) for my system, but I only use it for my garden.
Love your stuff. I would run water thru a filter before I would drink it. Silver, boil, something to knock down the bugs/germs...
"See it works" As the screens sink into the container 😂
Incredibly good point about waiting for the water collection. The more time the rain has to wash off the roof for you, the cleaner your collected water will be. Always install a diverter.
I have a off grid 22 foot camp trailer that I'm building into tiny home , I'm going to ad tin roof so I can clect rain water into my drinking water tank inside
You are like me brother. That's what am doing right now. Just have enough barrels. Amazing how much water comes off a camper roof fast.
In Hawaii we use swimming pools that have tin sides for our water catchment 7500gal for our back garden and 10,000 gal for the house we also have 2 house filters and UV light also so we can drink our water safely.
Hilder, the quote from Job 5:10 was amazing, it could be used in court to prove that over 2000 years ago God established his ownership of the rain with the earth to be the "Final Destination". (for the states claiming ownership of the rain water)
I loved the video hon.
U think court gives a shit about your religious book?
We use food grade IBCs for rain catch. Non-food grade tends to leech too much toxic stuff in to the water for watering crops. And a lid keeps the bugs, mice, etc out. Black barrels are a great sun catcher for winter night heating in the green house.
thats very sweet of her to take her time to make a video like this, her intensions are genuine, she wants to help and educate us ...two thumbs up.
Siphon tubing with spigot, pedal pump, transfers from single potable collector to multiple storage containers, solar- rechargeable battery- powered pump, and controllable rates/ratios via separate 'y' tubing for both heated + other water, Etc., are further examples of options.
i love my rain barrels!! free water for the gardens!!
good timing.. this is my project this weekend. I am harvesting my rain water for my dog.. he drinks (not kidding you 2-3 gallons a day) and on my off grid location, that is a lot of water to haul in for a week at a time. ;)
most of the year I distill our rain water for drinking. Let me tell you, the distiller hardly needs cleaning! For about a month or so I distll tap water, what yuck accumulates in 5 rounds is just disgusting! Once we run our little portable AC unit and the dehumidifier I use that water, same as with rain water it is clean. I also use it to shower/ wash myself with it, set a bucket in the sun if I want it warm. Sad thing is, our waterlily is always the same, we pay so much for the first 6 or 8.000 gallons, no matter how much or little we use of that. But at least it is clean water. And I do not let the first 10 min run off, half the time I am not home when it rains.
You might check. I've read that drinking a lot of distilled water can have a negative effect on your health because you don't get essential minerals. Happy Trails
Your body only reduces the excess toxins and minerals not needed for the body a good thing. Your essential minerals are stored and by the body and are mostly from food. Tap water has more harmful additives than it has useful minerals. Don't listen to the fear control governments.
What distiller do you use, kleineroteHex?
Use a diverter to discard the first water. Take a pipe that the water will go to and cap at the bottom with a tiny hole for drainage. Put a tennis ball in there and a restrictor to about 1.5" near the top and a path to the pipe to your storage tank. As the water comes in the pipe files and the ball floats up and blocks the pipe causing the water to go to the tank. A good rain off a barn roof can fill 4 300 gallon IBCs in an hour or so. And IBCs are cheap and usueally have large ball valves at the bottom.
Amen and thanks for the scripture at the end!!
Another reason I live in Cambodia. It's hard to find things here that ARE illegal! Starry, I am an American. Here, I use what is considered an excessive amount of water on our farm. But, that is only around 25 gallons per day, tops.
I stopped the video half way through to nearly empty a gallon of corn oil in my water catchment. Glad I hadn't thrown it out. Thank you Starry. :)
I don't know how big your water catchment is, but a commenter said you only need a tablespoon of oil for a 55-gallon barrel.
@@gailpugsley3211 🤣well he went total overkill if that what she said
oh, oh, birds and oil don't mix! And...way too much oil honey.
Thanks. What a lovely little furball over your left shoulder at 7:17mins.
The absolute essential! Lord-come place some barrels here. Good stuff here, Starry Star! Great intro! xo
I would add the recommended dose of bleach onto those barrels to ensure there is no bacteria or viruses in your drinking water. City water contains chlorine, the active ingredient of bleach for public safety. It's a small enough amount you can't smell it and I'm sensitive to the stuff. Dosing info is on the Clorox website and many other places. Just google it. I gallon of bleach provides 10's of thousands of gallons of potable water.
I need that blue barrel! It matches my little building we just got, we are painting it sort of that color of blue so some of those barrels would be cool to sit around my building to collect the water off of it for our garden!
"Stop and don't do a mr hilder"😂😂😂😂😂. You do make me laugh. I actually have a rain barrel and use it to water my garden in the summer. It's not only legal here but the city sells them cheaply.
Julia Bradley That awsome you are able to collect rain water. It just blows my my mind that city's will regulate against the collection of what God gives freely. Hope life finds you well. Have a amazing day.:)
Julia Bradley I hope all is well. Haven't heard you. Take care.
If you have adequate rainfall, like here in the Midwest, you can almost meet all of your water needs with rainwater. If you can do it you can use a 1000 or 1500 gallon cistern tank (available at many plumbing supply and farm stores). The best way of setting it up is to bury it below ground level far enough to be below the frost line. Set up a food grade barrel(s) for the rainwater to go into, and make a filter of gravel, sand and activated charcoal. This will help to remove many particle pollutants. Then set up some lines for the water to go into the cistern. You can use either a hand pump or an electric shallow well pump to raise the water out of the cistern and pressurize it to go into you waterlines.
Ok I must have missed something. .. What did you do to the water from when Mr. Hilder wanted to drink the water and the time you actually gave it to him? I'm sorry it's early. .. lol
I don't think she did anything.
she showed the steps needed to have good water...
We built our little pop up camper conversion under a big pine tree for shade but did not forsee the issue of mucho pine needle and moss debris that would fall from the tree on our metal roof and into our rain barrel. I temporarily solved the problem by doubling up a pair of nylon stockings and placing it over the gutter as a filter. Ok for washing but I still won't drink it.
I love the bible verse at the end. I'm new to homesteading and I love your videos. I'm a beginner at jar canning. Your advice is helping so much.
Glad you are enjoying the vids and learning!!
I love the sound of your waterfall in the background. So soothing.
HTH chlorine tablets will sanitize the water. They sell it at Walmart. Same thing they use in swimming pools. A little bit gos a long way. A piece the size of a grain of rice will sanitize 55 gallons.
Matthew Erwin
Matthew, hth uses binders in those tabs which include glues and talcum powder. I'd find something more pure personally.
Chlorine is so toxic....I heard Iodine works and its good for you.
Ugh I wouldn’t want that chlorine sanitizing my gut biome...
We made many rain catchment barrels that collect water from everywhere. Our garage, our storage sheds, our greenhouse, and our chicken house. Lots of rainwater here!
oh man, you mean it may actually be illegal for me to stand in the rain with my mouth open and my tongue hanging out cuz i'm thirsty in my state?
AnyWho no
Of course it is fi you pay for it for you have a receipt I'm coming over to arrest you where do you live...
50 gallons won't go far for watering a garden. Initially I was figuring on connecting a couple dozen 50 gallon barrels -- but quickly realized that at $30 a pop plus all the plumbing and hassle to connect, - I'd be better off with a 1500 gallon tank which cost right at $1000. They are also thick enough black plastic to prevent algae growth. Your system certainly can provide for necessary water for a couple though and is simple and quick. If you decide to GO BIG -- "Off Grid with Doug and Stacy" did a good job documenting their rain catchment with 2 x 1500 gallon tanks.
You must have a huge garden!
Doug has an awesome water system.
The Hilders have a year-round stream that they pipe into their house. I think it provides adequate water for them.
Gail Pugsley No springs here - normally rely on a very deep well. So depends on where you are - what works for them there won't be sufficient for everyone everywhere. Sadly. Good comment Gail.
Thank you stary. I love seeing you both on the videos it makes my day
ive been off the grid in canada now in a customized 3 seasons travel trailer for 4 years. the only time ive been seriously ill is directly attributed to my reliance on rain water. the further away from urban areas the safer you are but you should always boil any untreated water before cusumsion. good video though. keep on smilin
do you not have rainwater tanks available in usa ? almost all hardware stores here would be able to get you one or even a water bladder for under he deck or floor ? to hold a few hundreds of litres
They sell them, but they're more expensive than free barrels.
david heath any links you could add would be most appreciated!
Most places here do not encourage collecting rainwater for some reason. I'll never understand why...
Try chain restaurants and large grocery stores. They may get some foods (pickles, olives) in barrels and may give them to you after they empty them.
How would you discard the first minutes of rain water? Planning on collecting rain from my step van roof and thinking about how I am going to do that.
We are rebuilding our rain catchment system right now. Great video.
Awesome idea! Love how it works, the earth provides up with what we need! Only concern pollutants in the air being captured by the water, what can we do then? Personally I say filter the water through coconut charcoal which is a natural process used by water filtration all over the world! What do you guys think?
Do you have to boil the water or do anything to it before you can drink it ?
drinking water off a roof that birds and other contaminants are on its easy to boil before drinking. lead is a worry and gal is cancerous
Hi sister do you use a cover on top of drums ? How can I prevent water from freezing in winter? Do I need to purify water Thank you God Bless you happy to find your channel
Where I live in Ohio you can catch it but you have to pay ,,,,is that RIDICULOUS! And even if you don't save it now everybody's sewer bill has went up according to how much rain water comes off your house and runs into the sewer . Who ever thought you would have to pay to save chemtrail rain water. I can't believe they don't have to filter that water better by her ...Let me tell you this I do maintenance and I have seen a correlation between people getting sick and the air filters I change out every month on the house furnaces. Months where people get sick a lot those air filters are much dirtier verse months people seem to be more healthy ..I wouldn't trust rain water from the air unless it was boiled and filtered .
Get a SEPTIC TANK and you won't have to pay for water from the rainfall and runoff. I'd be damn if I would pay for rain water. They can kiss my ass in Macy's Window on a Chinese New Year if they even think about me paying for rain water and rain runoff.
Please show us your Garden. Talk about.
1. The mounding. Why you like it ?, How it works?, Benefits, Cons.
2. Whats in the mulch. How deep it is around the plants. How long it took for the mulch to look so nice.
3. Chicken manure : How often, how much, which plants.
4. other?
ohhhh im gonna make that into a video soon!! thank you..love feedback so i know what to make
Could you show and talk about the submersible pump you use?
sure..i will get it out soon
Starry Hilder Off Grid Homestead Great, thank you.
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you can also use a siphon system I do! thanks cheers
We are making a rain catchment system little at a time. We wouldn't care if it's illegal just got to be careful. Trying to cut our water bill in half. To dig a well here they charge arm and a leg. So we going with the catchment system. Thank you so much for the tips on how to keep the water clean. ❤😎❤. We use the same Cooking oil we love it.
amber rivers homestead A well is a wonderful thing. It's like rain catchment on overdrive. An enormous filtration system (compacted soil is a filter), an enormous catch area, and underground storage that naturally keeps out algae and mosquitos.
If the local drilling companies want to charge an arm and a leg, maybe you should give drilling your own well a try. There are a few good videos on RUclips of people drilling their own well (plenty of bad ones too though, watch out). I know, it seems like an impossible task at first, but you just whittle away at it and it CAN be done. Commercial well drillers sink half a million dollars (or more) into their fancy rigs, which is why they HAVE to charge a lot and have to drill much deeper than necessary in order to justify their fancy rig and charging so much. Truth is, most of the DIY well drillers find water at around 50ft, as that seems to be about where the weight of all the soil on top seems to compress the soil below hard enough to hold water. A $60 Li-ion cordless drill attached to a length of PVC pipe with a steel coupling on the end might be enough if you don't hit any rocks (grind some notches into the coupling to give it some teeth). You can evacuate cuttings using an air lift water pump (nothing to get damaged like in a centrifugal pump). Some people even use a $50 earth auger bit and do the job completely by hand. Dropping the gym membership will make that pay for itself in short order! Especially once you hit water. :)
Potability is also bacteria free water. Not just contaminants.
Your covers dont meet that requirement. Dipping into the barrel is not a good idea for consumption.
Older people, babies and people with compromised immune systems should avoid water that is not deemed potable.
Bacteria doubles in 20 minutes.
We JUST finished getting two of our rain barrels ready with spigots and elevated up off the ground. I do think we're going to need to add submersible pumps for them though. Greg (my husband) and I are looking into getting small, solar powered pumps if possible. We plan on getting at least two more barrels for now and more later after we move to our own land. Right now I'm using them for watering the gardens because we are currently renting our space and don't have outside spigots. :)
The gov't is going to have to pry my collected rainwater out of my cold, dead, hands.
Love this comment so much. Lol.
I live in a apartment, fortunately, with a large patio. I'm allowed to do whatever I want in terms of planting a garden, the problem though, I don't have access to water. I'm wanting to purchase a 55 gallo rain catcher. I can only rely on water from the sky and no roof from the drainage system. With no experience in rainwater collection would rainwater collection from the sky be enough for gardening?
The dirt is more clay so, per your suggestion on another video, I found a tree cutting company willing to give me wood chips for free and will place them on the dirt for a rich soft dirt and, to use as compost ready to use for next spring. Hopefully, it will take care of the hard clay issue by then. I also plan to have an above ground garden with legs in the future.
I watch your videos all the time and appreciate listening to your advice. God bless you always, Cat
I just stumbled upon your channel and I got to say I love you guys yall are speaking my language. Self reliance . Righteous I'm diggin it.
Be forever blessed Jah Rastafari Selassie I Jah.
To pierce a drum to add a tap or piping, try a product called Uniseal. Less than $2 each, and they look and seal well. Google or youtube it.
Haha pretty sure Mr Hilder's iron stomach can handle anything 😉 Great video Starry
Hello Starry and Mr. Hilder:
You guys are great...!
I enjoy all of your videos that you share with us.
I find you both to be an inspiration.
Be Blessed and have a great day...!
Back in my country we pay rain water tax... even if you not collecting it... unbelievable...
Whoa, what country is this you are speaking about? If you don’t mind me asking.
Love your bible verse at the end from Job 5. Do you let the rainfall through a sheet on top of a catchment system? How long should they be covered? Is it okay to put lids on containers that hold water outdoors? Do you have to worry about evaporation during summer?
Illegal to my mind is simply a sick bird. If it was illegal to catch my rainwater I would do it anyway it all goes to my garden.
Unfortunately its illegal here in WV sucks because it would save me on my water bill after giving water to chickens and my garden it does alot to my bill but loved this video very informative god bless gal
if its rain its free.even if theres ridiculous laws.God gave rain NOT Regulation
if we are doimg whats right shouldnt we rely on God to protect us against these ridiculous regulations that prohibit nature
God gave us rights to..BUT we are are enslaved...ever hear of the straw man??/
'god'? It's almost as if you're asking to be mocked!
Well it has to do with water rights and those water users who are a lower elevations than you. You must comply with the powers that be.
10 minutes of rain here in NE TX can be a lot of water. I've seen recommendations from 1/16th to 1/8th of an inch to routed into a first flush, and it's not too difficult to figure out the math to get the gallons of first flush capacity you need.
You have to be kidding me!! How can they stop you from collecting the rain? Do they now issue fines for puddles? The oil's a good idea for keeping bugs & beasties off the surface, do you need a certain depth & does it need to be replenished?
Essem Sween I'm with you. It's a good case for non-compliance and keeping quiet about it
Forging Freedom Channel I can understand issuing warnings about drinking it, even strongly worded ones; but I just can't see how it's enforceable. They ban the use of hosepipes because every summer there's a drought, partly to do with leaking pipes underground but more to do with the outrageous use of water without a thought to where it came from, like running the washing machine for two t-shirts, put people like that on a water meter and WATCH them change their ways. But as a resource for watering your garden saving rain just makes sense. (in fact the plant's water is probably purer than the bleached, chlorinated & God knows what-ed chemically cleaned sewage that comes out of the taps 😊) I'm baffled by it.
It's illegal in Colorado, they say it belongs to the state. I think it's crazy because most of the time people who collect water are using it to water their gardens, so it's going back into the ground water....crazy, crazy
Softly and Tenderly Does the 'State' also own air & sky rights? I wonder how they'd react to thousands of letters & emails demanding that they come & a) collect their rainwater which is lying in puddles on your driveway? b) stop their birds from stripping the Cherries off your tree, c) stop their birds from waking you up by chirping outside your bedroom window at 04:30 every morning. It's just ludicrous isn't it?
Essem Sween ok that last rant was excellent and a well thought out argument 👍👍👍👍👍
Good point about the roof . Asphalt shingles contain toxic chemicals that may be in that water all the time .
Can't you use the first 10 minutes of rain for the garden?
You can use it anyway you want, but it's gonna be dirty water, and you don't really want it in your rain barrel.
A tip i have a drum in my hunting stand its very nice i have a net and just for safety i use this chlorine pods of drinking water i forgot the name of them but there safe
Love your bright and breezy attitude Hilder , what’s with the “rooof” , down here in Australia we call them a roof. A roof. 🤠
I have no problem with American and other accents, But I thought Starry was saying "Ruff" which was the term for an Elizabethan style "ruffed" collar worn around the neck. In The Uk, we say roof as we extend the double o sound. Great info and super video Starry no complaints! please keep saying things your way! Off now to tell my wife your oil on the water tip. Thanks a lot.
What a sweet lady you are! Your delivery of the information is lively and cheerful, easy to listen to. Thanks for the info!
Good stuff, thanks for the video.
Peace of Lord Jesus upon you and yours
Yep. Thx for the Bible vers. It brings joy to see those messages.
I love barrels...they look so nice in my yard.
What sort of tyranny makes it illegal to collect Gods given rain water???
Please do some research before you scream TYRANNY! The fact is that the Prior Appropriation Law was enacted because gold miners in California were feuding over water for their mining operations. Their feud went all the way to the Supreme Court which established water rights as separate from land ownership. It was a capitalist system that decreed water rights could be bought and sold out from under land owners. Western states have been following established law since then.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior-appropriation_water_rights
It rains like no other here on the washington coast. The only reason we don't save rain water is because the city charges more per gallon going down the drain. Then they charge for how much water shed by your roof, and emergency ambulance services. Yup ambulance services. The actual water is pennies per gallon but it all adds up to around $150 a month
olive oil is the best..
The oil idea is brilliant!
Water is collected, not harvested.
I use 10 gallons a week for drinking, dishes, bathing, for me and my dog. But i go easy on it. Kinda roughing it style. Can confirm that you can bathe, wash your hair, mine is very long, even shave with one gallon.