Saul Alanis

I made a comment without thinking earlier on this thread, and I'm sincerely sorry to everyone.

I wanted to convey my concern for water conservation whilst one builds a hugelkultur bed.

The images are great education to me and should be to others.

I'd like to suggest building your hugelkultur beds during your region's wet season to take advantage of the weather.

Hopefully this will help minimize the impact on the your water bill and natural resources.

Thank you for the link it was very informative. In my own research I read that some states consider rain water state property. In the city I live in they care more about esthetics than conservation which is truly sad.

We purchased our dream rain catching barrel for our veg and pollinator gardens.

Ultimately, we can't afford to erect a building structure as requested by the city around the tank, and must let it go.

We purchased this used from a peanut processing plant and had it pressure washed. We had planned to wash the inside of the tank one last time in early fall, but didn't get around to it.

It's fairly clean on the outside, and really clean inside. Comes with a strong metal valve - not pictured.

We don't have a means of carefully carrying it to the front of the property, but can be pushed through our grass, with the help of enough people.

We transported the tank on a 6'x12' trailer and a couple of 4x4's, blocks, and rope.

Asking $700.
Please include your phone number and times you can be reached.

The tank stands at approximately 9 1/2 feet tall and 6 feet wide. Too cold to measure the thickness at this time.

Hello Everyone-

We are in the early stages planning to sell our home south of the cities suburb of Burnsville.

One of us where offered a great job and are considering moving to take on this opportunity.

However, our dilemma in putting our home up for sale is the effort we've put in over the past two years in building up the soil and landscape.

We are a young couple living by the ethics of permaculture: earth care, people care, and fair share.

The home is a spacious split level 1960's sitting on near 3/4 of an acre. It has two fire places, attached two car garage with storage, 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, large deck, and nice outdoor living area that can be used to BBQ or as hobby room. Also built a real nice tree house for the kids. We have mature maple, black walnut, pine, young apple crisp and crab apple trees. We have blue berries, black berries, raspberries, goji berries, sun chokes and a few more. We have a beautiful rain / pollinator garden which we received funding by the city. A butterfly garden (please enjoy the video) and other areas with native plants frequently visited by beautiful humming birds. In addition, we started two beautiful ponds that help harvest rain water and create micro climates for our plants. And a great early hulgelkultur bed.

We love everything about our home, but been told by a real estate agent that we must cover and put grass over our ponds and plants.

We hope to find someone that is looking for a beautiful spacious home who loves nature and loves fresh, delicious, and nutritious food grown in their back yard.

Again, we are in the early stages but are willing to consider showing our home to the right person.

If you are interested, please reply here and let us know whatever questions you may have.

Have a great day, and please enjoy some before and current pictures.

Our beautiful butterfly garden late last summer:
Butterfly_Garden

We're new to permaculture and are really enjoying learning about it, trying to convert our small plot of land into our own heaven.

In 2012 we barely got snow in MN; however, 2013 we had snow storms all the way up to May. So you can imagine the water saturation we had.

We live on a hill and all that snow melt went into and around our home. Luckily the damage wasn't enormous, but we've decided to implement some of the technics used in permaculture to prevent future damage.

We had two small swells and a small 13 x 20 whole dug up. Being this is our first attempt and that we literally live on top of sand, we weren't able to dig the first pond in layers. It turned out to be a cone shape hole. Nonetheless, we committed to making it work.

This picture was taken in March of this year. You can clearly see the water saturated ground freezing our truck tires into the ground



Fast forward to June, and this is what we ended up with. See the slope behind the pond, and next to the house we have two swells. One to catch the water from the side of the hill. And one extending further back to catch water from the slope in the back.



Here is a picture more at ground level that you can see the height of the surrounding hill.



The excavator left a small median between the swells. Not sure the exact reasoning, but we've convinced ourselves to be useful and are rolling with it for now.



From the side of the house where the water collected this winter, you can sort of see the two swells that are now feeding the pond.



This is what I'll post for now. It is a bit late and need to get some other things done before heading to bed.

Just like to add that part of the reason for me posting this personal project is because where I live I am getting lot of push back from my surrounding neighbors.

We do live in a residential area, and the majority of them just can't get enough of their golf course lawns. I feel like we've experienced harassment, but I won't go there yet.

Like I said, I plan to use this as a form or documenting our progress and can't wait to complete it and be able to share with everyone here.