I Started with One and Now I Have Three

[@reinolmattson364]

Aloha Curtis stone this is Reinol from Hawaii. I am a Microgreen farmer. And I just depend on rain I have a 10,000 gallon tank and it’s working great you got a beautiful set up up there good job.

[@South.Ern.Comfort]

That's why I love my well water , I'm on the same zepher that Zephyrhills bottled water comes from in FL , no fluoride or chlorine for me , fluoride free toothpaste too

[@campcreekhill8933]

It's amazing that on a property that had little water in a few short years you have just about achieved water sovereignty, well done!

[@nchestercountynews4955]

250' well artesian in nature, circa 1757 hand dug well/spring, abandoned cased well, ramp pump 8' of drop from pond discharge to 2 250 gal. IBC totes

[@Uro666]

I'd build a buried/underground concrete cistern next to your new house to collect all the water shed off of your roofs, I mention buried/underground as its free insulation and its out of the sun which helps to eliminate any growth issues (you could route the overflow back into your pond systems if need be, saving & re-collecting more water to on-site storage). Doing that would give you not only additional/emergency storage right next to your property, but you also have gravity on your side, that gives you the ability to use water in your gardens on the lower parts of your property essentially pump-free from the cistern due to the elevation and mass/head of water within such a cistern.

[@bradcavanagh3092]

Yeah an underground concrete tank is where it's at. Don't know how much roof area Curtis has, but you get one litre per square metre for every millimetre of rain. From the looks of the size of his roof I reckon he'd be able to catch enough to run his house on all year.

[@Jamesjghome]

I love your basement plumbing redundancy well done . Love the double clamps

[@thehennspace]

Thanks Curtis!

[@whereswendy8544]

An amazng and efficiently thought-out water system!

[@nodripsman]

Add a water garden/ pond arrangement from the gutter system, that be cool.

[@pickone8142]

I have two creeks one that starts on my property and a wetland. I also have two wells one is a bored well, and the other is a hand dug well

[@annettecarroll116]

I get some great ideas off your channel. Thank you. I bought an old abandoned farmhouse with 3 wells. One seems fine and clear, but needs a pump. One used to feed into the cistern under the house, but was disconnected by the municipality when they brought "town water" into the home. The third is beside the barn, feeds into the barn, likely for the horses they used to raise years ago, cribbing is shot. So I don't know which one to start with without going broke. Likely the biggest well behind the barn. Just a good pump that won't freeze in winter. Have a great day Curtis.

[@accidentalhomestead5522]

I would recommend some type of aquaponics/ aquaculture in your green house- trout should do well in your area. I know you said that for the ponds, but the other side of the nitrogen cycle is in the plants. not sure how you incorporate the rain water into that.

[@leeoregan9766]

a small coastal village in subtropical Queensland Australia: on 1000sq metre block- my 3 sources of water, currently.... rainwater catchment off a large roof into 2 x 10 000gal tanks, a bore (well) with a solar pump as backup to the tanks, and town water as a last resort during droughts. I also have 5x 1000lt ibc totes with covers that i fill when my tanks are overflowing, all in all around 60 000lt of rainwater storage, plus the bore, on an electric motor or petrol firefighter pump around 40lt per minutecon solar pump a lot less.

[@joannewolfe5688]

I'm on town water, which comes from a river, which probably has all kinds of crap in it. Needless to say I filter all tap water. Next year is my big push on installing rainwater collection on every metal roof on my property as well as from my high tunnel. The latter will be funnelled directly into the raised beds in my high tunnel. First time in decades I've been without a well, and I don't like it!

[@nicbutler3884]

Love all this content and all the resources on Freedom farmers. We moved onto 10 acres of raw land 2 and half years ago in SE BC. We dug a shallow well the first year which was providing a lot of water. Unfortunately it dropped to an unusable level 2 month ago. I've been harvesting rainwater of off my 80ft GH since June to water all of our gardens and its been a huge water source for us in the last 2 month along with grabbing water from our nearby lake. Creating "water banks" to store all the rainwater and fine tuning our rain harvesting is a priority for the spring. Watching your pond building has given me a bunch of ideas...thx for all the great content. Time and health.

[@joannewolfe5688]

Rainwater collection: I would put in a big concrete cistern, buried. There could come a time when you would have a droughty year: low snow, low rain, and even your well might falter. Extra stored water underground is always a good thing. And if you had a severe drought, you'd likely have more fire danger, so again, underground water that can be pumped out is a good thing. And finally, as you know, plants always grow better with rainwater!

[@rastarockstevie]

Did that stuff you put in your pond work in sealing it up?

[@offgridcurtisstone]

It did.

[@Jamesjghome]

Bentonite ⁉️

[@offgridcurtisstone]

Bentonite would be sweet if I wanted to spend thousands more on getting it, spreading it and then waiting til high summer for the pond to empty. This stuff worked in 5 days and cost $700 and the pond is sealed.

[@dangoras9152]

We collect rain water and we built 2 ponds... Keep it up brother

[@paulchristensen6722]

Hey Curtis you know what is interesting and we did this, is to run an electric tape down your well to monitor your static level before and after a timed gpm pump test. Your recharge rate is more important than the limitations and ability of your pump to produce your water at the surface. This will give you amazing data on your hydraulics and an ability to better understand what is happening below the surface over the course of a year. Great video!

[@Jamesjghome]

I live in north Michigan ‼️how do you keep valves on water tank by houses from freezing ‼️

[@torquewrench1969]

👌🐔📸 Oklahoma Chicken Cam approves of this video! 👌🐔📸 Kinna like when I was in the Army: 2 is 1----1 is none!

[@BonnieBlue2A]

We are coming into the 3rd year of drought here in the central USA Grainbelt. Our average rainfall is 45”/yr. I’ve added 5 ponds and improved dams on others and we are going to run out of water next summer if we do not get decent snow and significant rain this winter and in the coming Spring. No well capability in my immediate area. I knew that going in. A neighbor about 3 miles away who is well dependent is hauling water from town for both his house and cattle because stock ponds are 8-15’ low. We are going to be running city water lines to cattle waterers as a back-up 2nd source.

[@silverbackag9790]

We have water underground in my area (Missouri) but there’s a coal seam with lots of sulfur. Cattle folks normally deliver water from ponds. But many of them are now running lines for water from the local utility.

[@Nick-x2o7p]

Greetings from Down Under. Former Albertan recently relocated to OZ. Great job thinking ahead with the pipe rough-in. I would do a storage cistern underground and also a landscape feature, mini waterfall/streambed and pond with fountain. All our water comes from rain and every drop counts here in Tasmania. Have a shallow bored well in yard for emergency use but that has sadly been contaminated because of loose regulations in effect years ago. Mainly used to top up our "Toilet water tank" supply for flushing.

[@jeffdible8171]

I love the redundancy!

[@Allhandlesalreadytaken9]

Perhaps an organic swimming pool... David Pagan Butler style.

[@caleschwarzeschwarze6200]

How did you line your ponds?

[@offgridcurtisstone]

I didn’t.

[@mgez919]

Build a Natural swimming pool or natural hot tub pond with your rain roof water.

[@SamsLiberty]

Plans too burry and/or insulate the cistern and the lines to it?

[@SamsLiberty]

I am not sure how many GPM a 4 inch big O pipe can handle or how many GPM you will expect with a good rain, but it seems like that 3 inch pipe will need to go for sure. Looks awesome! Rainwater pond would be tits!

[@SamsLiberty]

I sold my Utah land to have more water security. We are still waiting for our well to be drilled on our new lot in Colorado. It has been a year and a half. Hopefully we will have it in the next few months. We will for sure be doing some rainwater catchment and some berm and swales

[@bk-of8iv]

a natural pool for swimming all lined with smooth stone and a smaller zone spa like , heated in summer time with all your excess electricity

[@Jamesjghome]

Shout outs from north Michigan water wins

[@daveyboy8907]

Gotta love that chemtrail water.

[@davedave8608]

I didn't know cowboy cerrone was a homesteader?

[@lotechgreg]

I vote for a "Scaled to your needs" replica of the Basilica Cistern..... But, .... That's just how I roll....

[@brianblaymires9907]

No municipality is recycling poop water back to homes. Love your set up.

[@offgridcurtisstone]

Sounds like you live in a good city. Most cities in Canada have water treatment.

[@danielcollins9628]

You should definitely build an underground bunker/facility go full prepper and show us how plz

[@Lunalily444]

From what I understand, he has his doubts about the existence of nuclear weapons. That may be why he doesn’t bother with the whole bunker thing. ( If he does have one I’d assume he’d keep it on the down low;)

[@danielcollins9628]

@@Lunalily444 everyone interested in their security wants one (so every guy).especially those of us with homesteads relatively close to the rabble

[@allthingsgrowing]

is that grey pipe the 1" 1/4 prime pipe you talked about in previous video? Are the pipe clamps a temp solution or are you going to install fittings later?

[@offgridcurtisstone]

It's black poly 1 1/4" Prime 100. The ones inside the house are temporary, yes.

[@allthingsgrowing]

@@offgridcurtisstone Curtis, thank you for answering my questions as I know that you are busy. You are one of the very few people that align with our beliefs here and hold the same principles, ethics and ideas on approach for a homestead. Thank you for all that you do. I follow you intensely. Am adding and implementing some of the very things you are doing on your land. As we have many of the same ideas, I am cherry picking the best and putting to work here in Parrottsville TN. You always have an open invite here at our place. Anytime you might be in the area or just want to come for a short visit. Please keep us in mind. Open invite.

[@mikehennigar5620]

#1Beer #2 Beer #3 Beer

[@astatine0085]

Why solar and not wind power? Or both?

[@skullanones]

Both are good, just wind requires more moving parts and have to be maintained.

[@offgridcurtisstone]

Wind blows.

[@hanaswank]

wont you get algae growth in that plastic collection tank, black would have been better

[@offgridcurtisstone]

Yes. That’s fine. Algae cleans the water.

[@georgiacapitalist6493]

good to be rich

[@offgridcurtisstone]

Good to achieve goals.

[@georgiacapitalist6493]

or have rich parents@@offgridcurtisstone

[@offgridcurtisstone]

Some people get rich that way not me. My family is all poor.

[@silverbackag9790]

Try not working at Wendy’s and living in your mom’s basement.

[@georgiacapitalist6493]

very clever @@silverbackag9790

[@chantallachance4905]

Think what the Chinese do with her mountain They cut it like a stairs to growing food You live on a mountaintop it’s possible where your natural water come from put some fruits trees