A rainwater-fed rooftop vegetable garden

Breanne's rooftop garden

Chicago resident, Breanne, has built an incredible rain harvesting system consisting of seven rain barrels, daisy-chained together, and a well pump to force the water up to a rooftop vegetable garden. She explains the materials and tools used to build this system in this HOW TO article on re-nest, a green home blog.

Breanne and her rain barrels were also featured on the What Our Water’s Worth blog this past Spring.

Go, Breanne!

An inspiring set up, indeed. If you have a great rain harvesting system you would like to share with fellow Chicago residents, please send a description and photo to rainbarrel@cityofchicago.org.

Rain barrel with pump

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