@@mandandi We have to feed them first. I do pile up all the waste hay and use it for mulch, mulch berms and garden. 👍

@@thewindmillgarden Excellent. I am impressed with how much water you are able to collect and keep in the ponds. Over time, with modifications, you will collect even more water and I cant wait to see suitable trees popping up in the land in the future.

@ We just got buried in snow. Three days of snow. Terrible right now. Digging out. This will be great for ground water.

@ Snow photo in community post. We are buried.

@thewindmillgarden Indeed. Tough conditions like that end up in abundance of much needed water. Someone prepared like you are benefits now and in the future.

@@lalodaniels1388 will do. Native Cottonwood and Willow. Thank you. 👍

Thanks for watching and all the nice comments

@@greeningthetexasdesertsuns9944 Wow! Thank you. I am so blessed to have the opportunity to work the ranch and be on the land with my family. Not many people these days can do that. Glad to share my projects, the garden and ranch with you. 😀🌱🐂🐓👍

@@DSAK55 Uhh OK ?? 🤔

12 inches average per year

@@TimelineRanch Simple easy machines.

@thewindmillgarden That's the best kind.

@@allthingznatural5592 Yhank you. Thanks for watching.

@@allthingznatural5592 Thank you 👍

@@mackellyman5642 Southeast Colorado. Great Plains. Black Widows and Tarantulas. Thanks for visiting the channel. 😀👍

Olathe has the famous sweet corn. We have Rocky Ford cantaloupe.

@@mackellyman5642 Thanks. I’ll check it out. 👍

@@JOANNZ71-z9u Great info. Thanks

@@dinosaur0073 Thanks. 👍

@@davidl4097 Now, we and most other ranchers in my area use deep on grid electric wells. Also miles of buried pipeline. In spots were there are no power lines solar powered wells are popular. But if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. These tough old mills are still around and work just as they have since 1888. The original off grid water pump. 👍

pump water from a well

@@abrahanmora9306 Thanks so much for watching. 👍

@@fernandobanos7255 Thank you 👍🐓

@thewindmillgarden Roads on any ranch are a never-ending project. You can always make them better. I have some pretty big elevation changes on my little ranch. But I like a good challenge, that's why I'm there in the first place.

@@TimelineRanchI like your style. 😀👍🛠️

@@TimelineRanch Thank you for sharing as well. I love to see all the great and interesting projects people do on their land. 😀👍

@@laeotis1 Western ranches are big. It takes about 50 acres per cow calf pair, in our region. There are still a few big family run cattle ranches here, but just like family farms this way of life is dying out. It would be almost impossible for a young family to buy a ranch and start from zero these days. Land and cattle are just too expensive. Our ranch has been family owned and operated for almost 100 years, five generations. No offense, but I’ll keep our acreage private. I am so blessed to be able to ranch and live out here with my family. My brother and I were born into this lifestyle. That is an opportunity not many people have. I hope my videos are a good way to share the ranch and garden with others. 🐂🌱🐓🐖

We were dry all summer. A big rain in October is not common for us here in Colorado, but we take what we get and when it comes.

Thanks, I just saw your pond project. Well done, very nice. 😀

@thewindmillgarden I still have a good long way to go on the lower pond. I would say I'm close to having 1/3 of it done at this point. Thanks for watching my ranch build as well.

@@ryandoylespotteryfarm7316 Thank you. I will try to do more work on all the little side drainages that flow into the main arroyo. There are so many small drains that flow out of the hills. That seems like it could expand the wet ground far above the main channel. I do have some berms all around the garden to catch water. By beaver dam analogs, do you mean making dams and catches out of trees, sticks and such?

@@thewindmillgarden yes, you could dump that stuff to make berms in the channels every hundred feet or so to slow the water and use all the trees you cut down to fill the channel with the excess dirt/rocks. Basically a check dam. Anything to slow and spread water and catch sediment to level the stream with the flood plain

@@ryandoylespotteryfarm7316 Thank you 👍😀

@@thomhodgson2721 Finally met another Star Wars fan! A fellow Nerf Herder on the High Plains. 😀👍🪐

@@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb ArroyOO 😀

@@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb Thanks so much. Slow, catch, spread and soak. 👍😀

@@peterpusey3206 Thanks for stopping by the channel. 😀👍

@@rossanacoelho2923 Summer High: the July high is around 95 - 100 degrees Winter Low: the January low is 15 - 20 degrees. Rain: averages 12 inches of rain a year.

@@gubbins1933 Thanks. I wan’t to be patient and work on this project for years to come. I want to slow catch and spread the water that normally just runs off the land. Hope to make a long green wetland area in the desert. There is already nice spots, trying to expand upon them. 💧

@@gubbins1933 Thanks. It will take time.

@@gubbins1933 That would be cool. I don’t know how to operate a drone, but I do know a guy who does. Sometime down the road I bet We could set that up. We could fly up or down the arroyo. 😀 Thanks 👍

@@thegraymarlin Thanks so much, I didn’t know that. I’ve allready enjoyed some jelly and still here. 😂. Next time I will use bottled lemon juice. What would you think about Citric Acid?

⁠@@thewindmillgarden Ha ha ha oh I’m sure you’re just fine 😂 I would still eat it also! But just something to consider if you’re sharing videos on KZbin. It’s not that using fresh lemon juice WILL allow botulism spores to grow, but it makes the environment more welcoming to them. As I mentioned, different lemons have different levels of acid. So one batch might be perfectly fine with your fresh lemon juice but the next batch could be too low of acid to be “safe”. Jellies you don’t have to worry as much because the sugar helps preserve. But some other recipes like salsa, you want to make sure you have more reliable acidity. If you’ve always canned a certain way and that’s how your family does it I’m totally not here to judge! I just like to try to help the new canners to our community learn the basics. Then they have the tools to make canning decisions for their family 😊 You could certainly use citric acid, however I have found that sometimes that makes the recipe too tart! Especially with something like prickly pears that are a little tart fresh off the cactus. I wouldn’t be opposed to trying it with a small batch to see how tart it makes it! Personally, I just buy the 32 oz lemon juice from my local grocery store and it lasts me an entire canning season plus. Hope that helps! What part of CO are you in? We moved to south TX from Greeley in 2020.

@@thegraymarlin Thanks so much for all the good info and for visiting my channel. 😀

@@albertomontafia1244 That’s a great idea. I think I will try that on some of the lower ponds. Put clay on the banks. The bottom of the lower ponds are in the clay layer. The upper gravel bar ponds can just catch and soak water into the system for the lower ponds. 👍😀

P.S. I should have waited a day to make my update video. It rained another inch last night. Really filled the ponds.

@@thewindmillgarden enjoy the water level in you shallow well going up!

@@albertomontafia1244 It definitely will after this rain. It is also going to charge up all the old shallow wells along the arroyos. I will be fixing up and running all the old windmills.

@@dorokaiyinvil5705 Thank you. I will be working at it for years to come. 👍😀

@@fabianlang7537 That’s cool. Do you know any info. about who built them? Thanks for stopping by thewindmillgarden 😀👍

@@thewindmillgarden I couldn't say, but we have a visitor center for questions.

@@force1253 Thats too bad. The herders didn’t destroy the prairie here. However in the 1920’s and 1930’s, Homesteaders plowed this dry land. A few good wet years, then dry hot and windy conditions created the Great Dust Bowl. The high plains have evolved for many thousands of years with grazing animals. Plowing these fragile soils was a mistake. Thanks for stopping by. 👍😀

@@hailuarayatedla4647 Thank you. I am going to keep working at it over the years.

@@laeotis1 Thank you so much for subscribing. Let me know what you would be interested in seeing a video about my garden, our family ranch or the great plains region we live in. 👍🐓🐂