A homesteader in Mobile on the Southern Shore says he’s had to take some unusual measures to ensure his farm and animals were kept watered through extended drought-like conditions this summer and fall.
Steve McBride says their well water dried up back in June and they’ve only been able to eke out a small amount of water for domestic use, but not for their farm.
That caused him and his wife to have to lug water, the old-fashioned way, every day from a local pond.
“It just means a lot of work,” says McBride, “because we’ve got to take 5 gallon buckets down to the pond. It’s a half a kilometre away and we’ve got to haul them back, one at a time.” He says they have goats, turkeys and ducks and even bees, not to mention their crops. “We go through a lot of water…and that’s on top of our own use.”
