Go with the Flow
I frequently refer to the adage “What goes up, must come down,” along with other rudimentary principles of physics to make my life easier on our little homestead. Gravity is always in play, so there’s no sense in fighting it. I go with gravitational flow whenever I can.
One of the heaviest things we deal with when gardening or farming is water. At roughly 8 pounds per gallon, it adds up. So, when it rains in summer, I like to store the water in a rain barrel and then let it drain out through my vegetable beds during dry spells, to keep me from needing to haul water around. But what do you do when your garden beds are slightly higher than the outlet on your rain barrel? You use gravity to send it uphill, of course!
Everyday Physics
You can’t fool Mother Nature, but you can sometimes play tricks on a hose full of water. To get water from a rain barrel to go uphill, you just need to make the water in the garden hose “think” it’s running downhill in order to make it, in fact, run uphill. But how do you do that?
I do it by starting with a
