Rainwater Harvesting

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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With water shortages ravaging much of the USA right now, we discuss some ways that you can collect and use rainwater on your property and garden. Connect With Matthew Rees-Warren: Matthew Rees-Warren is a gardener and author of The Ecological Gardener, which is out now Order The Ecological Gardener on Amazon (affiliate) Matt’s Website Matt’s Instagram Matt’s Twitter Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast.
0:16.3	We are joined again by Matthew Reese Warren, a gardener and author of the ecological gardener.
0:21.6	Now this is going to be a fun episode, Matt, because here in my climate, we'll get,
0:27.7	I would say we're supposed to get eight to 12 inches of rain a year, and we haven't even
0:32.6	come close to that this year.
0:34.2	I would say we're under five, so it's an extremely scarce resource for us.
0:42.1	Even though I'm coastal, I'm not in a true desert.
0:43.9	I'm in sort of more of like a coastal chaperale style climate, Mediterranean style climate.
0:49.5	But obviously where you're living, I don't know what your rainfall is, but I would assume
0:53.2	it's quite a bit higher than mine.
0:55.4	Yeah, we're going to get caught in the metric and imperial.
0:59.4	I think it's 800 milliliters average in the UK.
1:04.6	I think it's quite a lot.
1:05.6	I think you can't really hear how it is.
1:07.6	Yeah, that's quite a bit.
1:09.6	Yeah, that's a little bit.
1:10.9	I mean, it's, I'm sitting here, you know, it's the middle of summer and it's been
1:16.7	absolutely hammering it down for days.
1:20.7	It's been one of the worst summers actually.
1:22.7	I had lots of spikes with really hot weather and then lots of really heavy downpours and
1:29.0	there's been a lot of chat between people who have set up rainwater housing systems, how
1:36.2	amazing it's been because they're rainwater harvesters and mine included never been empty.
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