What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today we are again

joined by Ann Quo Real Hens of O.C. on Instagram. Definitely give her a follow and

also the upcoming author of

the Beginners Guide to Raising Chickens how to raise a happy backyard flock. So today

like I said in yesterday's episode we are switching it up a little bit and we're going to be

talking about sustainable water use in your yard and your garden going over a couple

different options you know for me and and living in California oftentimes we are dealing with quite a bit of drought and in general a lot of our water is not coming from our own state even

Especially me down here in San Diego, so it's very important to conserve,

and just a generally good practice overall, even if you're in an area that does get quite a bit

of rainfall or has natural water supply.

So Anne, could you talk us through a little bit of,

I guess a high level overview of how you are trying

to sustainably use water?

Yeah, we do that in a number of ways. First, we do have a gray water

pond in the backyard and it's a laundry-to-lawn gray water pond and the

pond is not lined and what people tend to usually think as a pond

you know like the kind that you keep fish it's unlined it's only lined with rocks I mean I guess

lined with rocks but is permeable.

So whenever we do laundry, the water gets pumped out into the yard instead of to the sewer

and it's held byep into the ground and it'll slowly seep into the ground and

feedback into the ground or the water table and all the plants that I have around that and my giant

persimetry which is maybe like 20 or 30 feet away from it. I don't water that at all.

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