You are invited to this year’s 4th annual Sustainability Fair. It’ll be great.
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Repair Café
Big news from the Sustainable Black Diamond Advisory Committee (SBDAC):
On Saturday, March 16, 2019 from 1 to 4 a Repair Café is coming to our Town.
What is a Repair Café you ask? Check out this short video.
SBDAC is looking for both volunteer “fixers” with various skills like: soldering, electrical prowess, knitting, sewing, woodworking and more. If you have a skill you’d like to share and show off, contact me here and I’ll put you in touch with the organizers of the Repair Café.
Of course a Repair Café also needs things to fix, so bring your clean household items and personal effects down and let the team of “fixers” take a crack at a repair or two.
Hope to see lots and lots of you next month.
Harvesting rainwater
In the excitement to share photos of my huge tomato plants I realized I neglected to show how we get the rainwater.
It’s quite simple. We have four 1,000 litre tanks under the deck. We put on a new roof last year – metal – and put up new gutters at the same time. A simple diverter on the downspout feeds water into the tanks in the warmer months or out on to the lawn during winter.
The diverter
We rigged up a bunch of 4″ PVC pipe under the deck from the downspout and into one of the tanks.
Tank tops
To equalize all the rainwater in the tanks, we just ran hose off the valves on the front. It took a few hours to get all the tanks at the same level after the first rains but it doesn’t affect the operation.
