Alex Sun

Anderson Allen wrote:There’s a first video on YouTube when you search: rainwater roof "tire pond"
The idea is to put the main keywords you are looking for in quotation marks for a more precise search
I skimmed through it (it’s 6:33) and it seems to cover most of what you said, except maybe about the rocks, I’m not sure, so it may not be exactly the one you are looking for.
Good luck!

Thank you so much! That was exactly what I needed! That first video is the right team and the second video I think is the one I was remembering, but still didn't have that note on the rocks. That is definitely them though!
Thank you!

Hi all,
I lost this video that I found doing a deep dive into keeping rainwater in the soil. I'm hoping someone here might know what I am talking about or at least know the proper search terms to help me get there.

There was a man explaining their catchment system. The roof water came off the gutters through a downspout that led to a small pond fashioned from an old tire. The pond had plants growing in it that filtered the water. Then it spilled over into a perforated pipe that went through the garden. They talked about how they had used rocks around the hose, but didn't like it. It was a huge pain to remove the rocks. They found it was better to use mulch because the water would wick upwards and be available for the vegetables in the garden beds. The worms also moved around the mulch more and entered the garden beds more. The mulch doubled as a pathway. He had a concrete spill over for when there was too much rain, but I don't remember where it went after that. There was a link about how to make the tire pond, which I was hoping to reference, but it also had a bunch of other cool info I would like to reference.

Is the buried perforated pipe called a French drain? Most of what I'm finding on Google is for foundation drainage.

My fingers are crossed at least one of you knows what I'm talking about.
Thanks,
Alex

Hello all,
I saw something online about some of the byproducts of BSFL. The leachate (the liquid by product?) can be diluted into a liquid fertilizer, much like one of the by products for an anaerobic digester. I saw people using the solid waste from them (name?) as a feed for their worms. I also saw someone using bsfl waste (solid? Maybe liquid?) In their anaerobic digesters and I may have seen something that did the reverse, that is digest first. I also know that BSFL digest tanks sometimes become anaerobic which is good for the bacteria, but bad for the larvae, right?

What I like about BSFL is they can eat pretty much anything and quickly and produce food for my chickens. What I don't like is that they can't eat grass clippings, leaves, paper, cardboard, and other high cellulose items.

What I like about biogas production is that we would be capturing the gases for further use, but it may have issues with cardboard and paper (though I believe non Woody garden clippings are fine). It would bother me to produce gas in a composting system that isn't being collected, assuming there is enough to collect. Also, it seems to be able to handle less chicken manure.

I've looked into worms and crickets as well. I'd feed the crickets to chickens, but probably not the worms (seems like a lot of work.) I could use crickets to break down high cellulose items, but if I'm loosing gas, why bother? And since they don't really eat cardboard, I'd rather not bother since I'd really like to get rid of that without burning it.

So I have many questions. First I guess would be, how are you mixing biogas with other composting methods? Does anyone think a hybrid system that allows anaerobic digestion and BSFL would be possible? That is, could we successfully separate out the material for further digestion from the larvae., Without losing the larvae? I'm willing to do some work to do this and willing to use other bugs in the process. Like BSFL-worms (add in cellulose here)-anaerobic digester. Or perhaps an aerated section for bsfl to live in and an anaerobic section for further digestion with gas being collected and combined for both? And how do you dispose of your cardboard and paper?

I've also posted this with the biogas forum.

Hi, I'm not seeing any button on the mobile website to start a new post in a forum. Can you please direct me to some instructions?
Thanks,
Alex