A Rainwater Catchment System for High Tunnels - In the Alaska Garden with Heidi Rader

In this video, Lori Jenkins, owner of Synergy Gardens in Homer, Alaska shows us the rainwater catchment system she uses on her high tunnels.
Other resources:
Rainwater Catchment from a High Tunnel for Irrigation Use
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Synergy Gardens
synergygardens.net/

[@RedneckHillbillies]

Excellent. Very clean looking installation.

[@hudson8865]

Thank you.

[@Cl0ckcl0ck]

That's the most netherlandisce American Indian that I've ever seen. Great show!

[@goofeybutreal4398]

Nice.

[@GtJrGrowsItAlaska]

👊🏾

[@MsK-xm7vw]

I found this very informative and only wish the camera had shown more and she had gone into much more detail. It would have been nice to get more specifics on the design and build. As this women's job is to inform people, I was disappointed in the lack of details and information.

[@ummyahya3965]

How does she keep the water from freezing?

[@UAFExtension]

-The rainwater catchment system is only used in the summer months. You’d need to take down the gutters in the winter.

[@ummyahya3965]

@@UAFExtension thank you

[@stevelippert5109]

300 gl per zone? - 300 gl every time she waters? - seems like a bunch of water?

[@RobCooper]

sure does. I thought the same thing

[@brucea550]

How big is a ‘zone’? Never showed how long this greenhouse is. So working backwards, 300 gallons is 40 cubic feet, which is 1” of ‘rain’, a typical good amount, on 480 sf. That’s an area 20x24, not really that big, maybe half the high tunnel.