From High Desert to Oasis | How to make your land hold water 

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Talk about seeing a well laid out plan come to life, bet you are PUMPED!!! So exciting to see all that hard work pay off!!!

I have 40 acres off grid near lake Alamo. Every dollar I make I save so we can off grid live. Keep up the good videos.

My daughter and I are sitting here and we’re so excited… We can see that big dark gray sky (moving rain cloud) heading for us and we live in the same county as you, so we are super thrilled to be ready to see what monsoon brings… We’ve been waiting for this! I really appreciate you showing us, so that we can do this excited and thrilled and not scared. So much gratitude pouring down on you! Literally 😜🤓😁

The sound of water running on your property gives me such joy. I can't wait until I'm up there too.

people need to also understand out here off grid on a unmaintained road that u need to watch the weather and go to town to get any basic stuff u may need cause you may not be able to get out for a few days and even then you will mess up your driveway and road the sooner you wanna get somewhere.patience and foresight are key here to saving yourself alot of extra work

I really miss the desert monsoons.

I love the rain videos!

Made an offer on 5 Acres in Sun Valley Az today... Should be out there in October. I really love your trash to treasure attitude lately... liquid gold there man, good job, must be a real charge seeing all your efforts come together. congrats on all that water. Ill be hauling water 15 miles... planning to copy your style and collect as much as I can.

Yea, my friend has a plastic hole that holds 110,000 liters of water! That's about 25,000 gallons. This last year it was nearly empty but the rain was so big in Tanzania that it overflowed!!

Great job, will this lift your water table eventually? Appears you may through time be able to transform the desert into a permaculture oasis. Cool

Dude, your videos are mesmerizing! Damn hard-working man we’re watching here!

Hi John! You really have an enormous well thinking method to collect water 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Oh I love your beautiful horses !!!

We're making an offer on 6 off grid acres in CO soon, and your videos are so inspiring!!

Wow that's a lot of water do you put a lot of hard work into it that was good exercising shoveling all that😊

Man, that's great ! TAKE CARE..

Awesome. Love the sound of that rain.

Love the tours of the homestead.

Dude! Epic. Those are working out great! Congrats!

AZ Rain storms are No Joke . Great Content, AGAIN !

we dont play out here.when we say it rains IT RAINS. people die in the washes from flash floods every year. its fast and furious in a matter of minutes

You’re doing excellent with that water collection👊🏻

I SO love to see your results -- for you in general, and to quiet the naysayers!! 😁

I love, love, LOVE what you are doing. The only drawback is that you'll have a fair amount of standing water in which mosquitos are likely to breed. Can you take any measures to prevent/ limit their breeding?

I sent some treats for the boys :)

Dude, John this is awesome to see. Great job so far in your collection, you’ve done a lot with it. Have you considered planting perennial plants and maybe trees around the demi-lunes along the driveway? wouldn’t now be the best time to take advantage since the ground is charged with moisture? You obviously know your land better than my uninvited advice. Keep up the great work man. 🤙🏻

Wow, how awesome for you to get blessed with so much water! Wish some rain would come my way...*fingers crossed*

Your hard work is paying off

Looking to buy property in the white mountains of Arizona and this is exactly the information needed thank you!

Overwhelmingly awesome Love the vision

Congrats on catching the rain!

We sure got some heavy downpours! Thanks for the inspiration, hopefully I'll have mine done by today!

I'm amazed and jealous at the same time at what you have pulled off! I commend you on your success of doing what I knew was possible but I never did! The difference between the two of us is that you actually went out and did it. Action speaks louder than words

Great video. I was wondering when you were going to do something like this. You can hear the excitement in your voice.

That’s awesome man. Nice work setting that up. You doing it!

You could dig some rolling dips on the road to divert water into the swales you dug.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

thats a lot of lovely lifegiving water :D good job... love the horses :D

I'm gonna have to go through your videos so I know what to complain about! This one lacked faults, huge disapointment.😂 well done Sir. Looks awesome.

Everything is looking fabulous!!

Love seeing it! Thanks for the video

Ah, don't worry if people "believe it or not". Let them remain in denial. Keep doing what you have to do to create your paradise.

Your friends are sticking close to you. Two beautiful friends. We had four of them a long time ago. Used to ride the fence line at a friends farm where we stabled them. The place is gone now and a freaking fed. Prison is sitting there.

Looks like you got it going on!

Earned my subscription for sure... Thanks for the inspiration of ideas you've given me 😎👍💯

Love the water

I like to deep rip soils 18" to 24" every 6' to 8' on grade (same elevation) with allowance for tree roots (avoid damaging roots). Achieve incredible water infiltration rates for years in dry climates. A small tractor can pull the ripper even if it takes a couple of passes.

You have done so well with your different water harvesting methods. I watch another channel not off grid called Heron there. He’s done some similar water conservation on his property. I guess next is getting some plant growth on the property.

Very interesting tour implementing the ideas you spoke about from Africa I think. I’ll be where are you watching this. Thank you for sharing.

Very exciting. Try using some waterfowl that do well in your area. The poop works well as an initial sealant for ponds in your type of soil.

Amazing!!!

Holly Molly man!!! This is so amazing!!!! 🤩

That's awesome!💧 💦 💧 💙

So many beautiful thousands of gallons of water. Desert dwellers understand the beauty of it. :) You thought about putting an Indian well next to your recharge pit? I'm toying with the idea. It's a lot of digging, everything out here in west Texas is a lot of digging, but it'll be worth it.

Wow! That’s a great way to keep water! Great job!

I think Brad Lancaster would be proud...

That is soo exciting!!!!😊😊

Were you able to fill your water tanks with the rain?

Great work. I'd like to see a water filtration video soon. 😊

Hope we'll get some monsoon soon.

looking good!

You need to triple your capacity of storage 😊

Man thats fantastic!!! Im from Michigan!! Im so happy for you!! Is there a way to calculate the evaporation rate? Can you put some shade over some of your pond! I can only bet your calculating! Looks like a lot of water! He's a thought for you!! Use old pallets, windmill water pump! Garden watering

Did you get rain today? I only got massive winds. So jealous. Great job on your catchments.

great job. that is too cool. if you only had a tractor for a day or two.

1vCollection 2 storage 3 use it 4 reduce evaporation as much as humanly possible.

Time to get some seeds in the ground!

If you get some plastic mesh like shade cloth stretch it between to poles. This will catch the morning dew and fog and give you fresh clean water. If this doesn't make sense please contact me and I will explain further. 😊

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Very nice! Curious how things dry out on the surface. Any idea about the water table or how the underground drainage flows?

Would it be too expensive to cement that catchment pound? Does the plastic eventually leak with how powerful the Sun is? Do you know your Latitude? Were at 27 N, off the coast of the Western Sahara.(One of the driest places on the Planet) We call our rain water Harvesting platform a ÄLJIBË. The water is stored in a cellar away from the Sun & Wind , underneath the flat,yet angled ¨Roof¨. The Camels here are getting ill with our desalinated water.

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Do you use this water on plants? Or drinking water, what kind of filtering do you have to do to clean all the contaminates out?

question (for anyone) - as your pond fills you've probably got a ratio of about 85% water to 15% silt, with the overflow taking a lesser ratio (more water and less silt) which means more silt build up in the initial pond area - you might end up with 50% silt in the pond over all as the water dumps it off before going to the overflow, and so how do you remove your silt without damaging the liner to gain a larger storage area of actual water in the pond (other wise your 5ft deep pond just became 2.5ft deep or 2000 gal instead of 4000 gal)

When you moved out there, was the permitting process difficult? I heard they are strict on septic systems? I will browse thru your videos to see if you have anything posted about septic stuff. New to this.

What prevents the water from seeping into the ground or rapidly evaporating?

Nice setup! Have you ever considered using french drains?

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What state is this?

You've been busy

Where are you?

Get some wood chips on the ground!

You need a lake..

You should introduce yourself to Brent at Ghost Town Living, if you don't know him, he is living in and reviving an old ghost town in the desert mountains near Death Valley, he has ongoing water problems there and could sure use some expertise from someone like yourself.

so much water but so dirty...I hope the water is for the plants during the dry season only...😁

That is wild man