Grow trees, vines and bushes on land with no water or restricted Axillary Water

We have a device and process that allows us to grow trees, vines and bushes on land where we do not have accessible water.

We invented the process because we wanted to grow hundreds of grape vines on land where  we could not obtain water rights sufficient to support them.    

Our approach was to concentrate the rain using technology to store excess water so we can use it to drip feed  trees for up to 130 days between storms.

We started with fruit trees but the process turns out to make growing remote hedge trees and wind breaks  where running water pipes would be to difficult or expensive.

We  want to talk with people who have similar challenges to gather feedback on how to improve the system.    

We especially want to talk with potential beta testers who have a podcast, blog or YouTube channels and face water access problems.    

Sounds interesting. I am off-grid and have hundreds of young trees, most of which are in the process of weaning off irrigation. I am interested to learn more about your process. Where are you working from? Thanks.

Hi Ben,   We are based in Ford WA near Spokane in eastern WA.    We get about 19 inches of rain per year most of it during early winter with hot dry summers.

Where are you located?  How much rain do you get?  How long do you go between storms in the hot part of the year?   How old are your trees?    What kind of water retention do you see in your soil?      What kind of results are you seeing from your weening process.  I ask these questions so  I can provide the most relevant data.

I will send more information when I get back to a larger computer.  

Here are a couple pictures you may find interesting.  All these trees were planted in late May before a hot dry summer. The trees that used the RainAmp process survived and thrived. These trees were all equally neglected because the location of this hedge is 350 foot beyond our longest hose.

Hi Ben,    Rather than try to post a book on this thread I have tried to capture the important information at our website.  It is still a work in progress.   Feel free to contact me directly from there.


This article provides a basic overview of the RainAmp technology and Process:   https://rainamp.com/2023/10/16/rainramp-s1-trees-thrive-between-storms/

In this article I tried to capture our process of how our desire to grow food producing trees and shrubs on land with inadequate water drove the developing the process and technology:   https://rainamp.com/2023/10/16/homesteaders-transform-baren-land-to-vinyard-and-orchard/

I have more content coming soon.     If you have additional questions please reach out.  If you have a question then somebody else will probably have the same question.

I was thinking about your young fruit trees.  I don't think you can use the entire RainAmp process which requires digging out and enriching a bio-sponge before planting.  You can still form the bowls but it will require moving soil from elsewhere around your parcel to form the bowls.  We did this for a bunch of blackberry starts that were struggling and it worked fine.      

You may be able to just use the planting bowl and skin if the following are true.  Otherwise you will need our S1 system:
* You have adequate rainfall to support the tree
* The maximum time between rainstorms still leaves the tree with adequate soil moisture at 3 foot deep.
* Your trees are tolerant of pooled water when big storms hit
* Your soil drains well so pooling is not a problem
* You don't need to store more water than is available in the soil column below the tree to support the tree between storms.

Thanks Joe Ellsworth