You can make cheap, functional rain barrels with trash cans and simple PVC plumbing and electrical conduit fittings. Line up as many as you need to meet your watering needs and save water around your ...

Call me a dreamer. I want to flush with rainwater. Rain barrels already anchor my downspouts. I want to hitch them to my toilet tank. It would save me money and leave my city’s drinking water for ...

Bob and Sue Ames are getting ready to remodel the one bathroom in their Fairport house, so they joked that they might boost up their new rain barrel and use it as a sun shower. They were among the ...

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Onondaga County aims to have 250 rain barrels built in one weekend. Cooperative Extension trained 25 people to build rain barrels in July, with support from Onondaga ...

[Kyle Gabriel] moved into a house with a nice tract of land behind it, but due to his busy schedule he had yet to plant the garden he so desperately wanted. He worried that his hectic life and busy ...