Homestead mailing list

[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> In  my case the water and the creeks are more than 2000 feet from the
> electrical terminus and I am not inclined to run commercial power  
> down the
> mountain side to the gardens.

Have you considered a hillside catchment? Non-potable water should be  
pretty easy. Any kind of roof or controlled runoff area into a pond  
or tank. I suspect your hills are similar to the Ozarks and hillside  
soil is not appropriate to a leak-proof pond unless clay is hauled  
up. But there are any number of alternatives, the most exciting to me  
a ferrocement structure.