What We're Reading: Rainwater Harvesting Manual

 My school is adding a school garden next year, and one aspect of the garden will be water collection.  We plan on collecting rainwater runoff from the roof and condensation from the air-conditioning units.  In theory I know exactly what I want, but I have never designed a system of this scale (or ever) before.  I have put in a few calls and have been told that the Texas Water Development Board has written the definitive guide for rainwater collection systems. 

Why do I keep giving myself homework over the summer?

The City Chicken

Here is a great website about Chicken Tractors that we visited frequently while designing our chicken tractor. Our tractor doesn't look like any of these because we ended up using mainly recycled materials, but we used the photos to figure out what goes into a good chicken tractor design. Be sure to visit The City Chicken if you are thinking about urban chickens.