standing in the rain with your mouth open is one way to drink rainwater. Catching and filtering it is another... ...first a disclaimer: I am no licensed plumber. He ran for the hills when we tried to hire him, so this is what I figured out on my own. I am not saying this is the [...]
Here is just one way to modify your existing rain bench to make the cap itself collect rainwater and put it inside your bench.... RainBench Retrofit: Collect water that falls on your rain bench, too. *This retrofit is for standard 65 gallon Rain Bench made with 1 DIY kit, 1 sheet of plywood and some 2x2s… [...]
...because putting 670 milk jugs on your patio wouldn't be nearly as comfortable. Made from locally recycled plastic from recycling plants in southern Wisconsin, designed and built in Middleton, WI, these chairs offer a ridiculously comfortable and decent looking end use for all of that plastic you've been faithfully putting in your recycling. Why are [...]
Finally. You can get that bench, or outdoor bar, or garden shed, or all 3. Ok, not for free but it might just be TOTALLY paid for with rebates... There are a growing number of incentives and rebates now available due to 'Pilot An outdoor kitchen built with Rain Bench kits Programs' that were [...]
make it permeable. That's right. Allowing rainwater to go down into the ground is the most natural, permaculture-esque form of rainwater harvesting. And you don't have to have a rain garden to do it. a permeable patio A simple change in basic materials, at no extra cost, can make your patio permeable. The one pictured [...]
Part 1 of an Infinite-Part Series... I was recently asked to speak to a great local group, the Evansville Inventors & Entrepreneurs Club, and was asked to tell about how Second Rain went through the product-patent-to-market process, which got me thinking, as the great Jack Handy once put it: "I don't pretend to know all the [...]
Tip of the Week #5 (archived, May 2011): dig a swale …what’s a swale, you ask? Oh, just a depression that usually directs water from where you don’t want it to where you do. I say ‘usually’ because we are promoting a more indirect method, for the purpose of groundwater recharge/ infiltration. So in [...]
landscape designs, beautiful AND sustainable ... watch to see where the water is, and just how many rain barrels it takes to equal this design what follows is a plethora of designs incorporating the RainBench DIY kit as a customizable building block, from 40 to 96 gallons each and a variety of different materials... hang [...]
check this out. every patio should have one... ...or two, or three. This is another way of making a self watering garden with our RainBench™ DIY kits (2 kits per 8'x3' garden above). The beginning of the video graphic above shows the RainBench™ DIY465, how it is assembled from the ground up. Then just add [...]
want to see one of these in your garden? our first design had water all the way to the top, but that posed a few issues with hanging tools and other items, as well as pressure concerns. Then we thought, "Gee, isn't 1650 gallons enough? And here's a built-in work bench or potting bench, what [...]
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