• There is no doubt that rainy season has started in California and if you don’t have a rainwater collection system set up yet, and you live in San Francisco, this is your lucky wet season. Check out the SFPUC’s rain barrle program.  Once you have gottent he hang of installing a single rain barrel, be sure to keep adding storage capacity so that you gather as much rain as possible to add to your landscape in dry months, as a disater-related backup water supply, or to plumb your house for the indoor use of rainwater.

    THE SFPUC CONTINUES ITS POPULAR DISCOUNTED RAIN BARREL AND CISTERN PROGRAM!

    While supplies last, San Francisco residents, businesses and schools can purchase 60-gallon rain barrels and larger volume cisterns at steep discounts, compliments of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.

    Purchase your first barrel for $85 and each additional barrel for only $45 – that’s more than 50% off the regular retail price of $105! Cistern discounts range from $160 to $640 depending upon volume.

    The discounted rain barrels and cisterns are available at:

    The Urban Farmer Store
    (San Francisco location only)
    2833 Vicente Street, at 40th Avenue
    Phone orders are welcome:  415-661-2204 (ext. 1)

    For more information on this discount program, or on San Francisco’s rainwater harvesting program, please visit:

    http://sfwater.org/mto_main.cfm/MC_ID/14/MSC_ID/361/MTO_ID/559