Nelda Williams (our featured speaker in November 2014 on a different topic entirely) has provided an encouraging account of how the city and a class at the Urban Farmer store equipped her to install a gray water system in her yard.

Nelda writes:  “I attended a couple of classes at the Urban Farmer store to learn how to install a gray water system in my front yard to water my fruit trees. The instructor was Maggie Guerra from the Garden for the Environment. The city provided an excellent, comprehensive guidebook and, for only $15, a kit with most of the supplies I needed. After taking the class and reading through the illustrated guide a couple of times, I was able to install the gray water system myself. I had an estimate from a landscaper that it would cost about $1,000 to do both the plumbing and the required yard work, but I did it myself in less than a day and needed to purchase only a couple of tools and additional PVC pipe. Now I get to use my water twice!”