Second Rain

02/11/2016

Almost finished with a "while she was out" project for Mom: Building a solar heated studio complete with built-in 400 gallon rain bench and DIY solar water heater. Almost entirely repurposed...
Blog post details so far: http://www.secondrain.com/2016/01/moms-studio/
And... https://youtu.be/0hzOkwY1aZ0

04/19/2015

Progress on the 1680 gallon "WaterShed" (chicken coop/ garden shed/ massive rainwater storage)...

05/08/2012

Recycled Plastic from Eco-tech

07/20/2011

Anyone ever leave your sprinkler or soaker hose on in the garden and forget about it?
Even in droughts when you have exhausted your stored rain supply, you can just put only the amount of water you want to use into your Rain Benches or tanks, then leave it on a slow trickle or modified soaker and forget about it!

02/06/2011

says, "Hello, Canada"
Second Rain is happy to announce their addition to the Lee Valley Tools spring lineup (a catalog and retail garden / woodworking company with locations all over that big country up nort --even farther than us)

02/06/2011

the WaterShed: 1650 gallons of rain inside the walls of a garden shed.

this will be installed by students and volunteers at Waunakee High School near their community garden, to reduce outside water needs for irrigation (currently they have the city truck water to location)

it will be offered as a do-it-yourself kit using standard DIY rain bench kits by second rain

02/06/2011

sweet rain patio

This is a Second Rain rainwater harvesting system concealed within a patio bar and seat wall in a backyard. Starting from the downspout, two lines are buried under the patio and planting bed, filling the bar and seat wall from the bottom. The bar also houses a pump and 25' hose on a retractable