Greywater-harvesting food-producing outdoor shower
Plant your greywater as you shower to grow a fragrant, edible, privacy screen that also feeds & shelters chickens, goats, pollinators, and native song birds.
Two drains, each to a different gravity-fed branched drain system, distribute the greywater to multiple plantings with the free power of gravity. With this system the soil drains well and stays aerobic, greywater does not puddle, and there is no odor.
This simple, inexpensive system (no pumps or tanks) uses common plumbing parts, and no expensive or hard to find valves.
Be sure you pipe maintains a minimum 2% slope — more on how to do this in “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2, 2nd Edition”
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For more info specific to greywater harvesting
Greywater-friendly soaps and detergents
Plants for chickens in the Sonoran Desert
Good & bad plants for goats in the Sonoran & Chihuahuan deserts and beyond
Sun & Shade Harvesting rainwater cisterns/tanks
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Volume 1
See appendix 4 to estimate the water needs of your plants, and thus how much of their water needs could be met by your harvested greywater, and other free on-site harvested waters.
Volume 2
See the greywater harvesting chapter in this book for how to estimate your household’s greywater volumes, and for more key information on how to set up an outdoor shower harvesting its greywater, along with other simple and effective gravity-fed greywater harvesting systems.