People through history have found at least five ways to irrigate crops, livestock and themselves using 5 gallon buckets.
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Farming with 5 Gallon Buckets
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Beehive
This is a new experimental 5 gallon bucket beehive designed to provide safe housing for a colony of bees.
Gardening with 5 Gallon Buckets
Worm Farm
Originally I didn’t want to publish this here because it uses larger 18-gallon bins, but under my new definition of bucket it’s allowed in.
I built my worm farm last winter and stocked it with red worms from our backyard compost bin. It was a successful project, and a great experience, so I’ll probably build another one in my new place soon.
I fed it a very rich food scraps diet for a month or two, then neglected it for four months. When I harvested it, the worms were still alive and happy and the compost they lived in was the richest, sweetest smelling compost I ever laid my nostrils on (and I’ve handled a lot of compost.)
The three-bin worm farm I built is much easier to maintain than a one-bin systems. You can see the full tutorial on DIYwormbin.com