Do We Have a Pond?

After more than thirty years of owning this property, the family combined resources to to create a 500,000 gallon pond that can provide water for the summer gardens. Once the pond was built, landscaping in the form of planting trees, spreading grasses and hay, and laying rock in the spillway and drain were accomplished. Now the migrating birds and other animals frequent the pond and use it for a refueling spot. Since we don't have a well, we have to rely on springs for the only source of fresh drinking water in the dry hot summers. In the winter along with the rains, water is abundant, so storage is a great strategy to consider to quench the thirst of the numerous conifer, fruit, and deciduous trees for the long hot summer months of July, August and September. With water anything is possible. An arid southern exposure turns into a potential forrest of organics veggies plants and trees. This is no mirage. It is as real and abundant as the sky is clear and blue.