what will you water with it?

It will be mostly used to provide water for tilapia tanks that will then flow through and water the vegetable garden and orchard.

You always have such interesting projects going! Did you make it from scratch?

How are the tilapia doing? can you post some pictures of them? How big do they get? I am seeing them offered more and more in restaurants.

-Sheila

The project design is mine (with inspiration from books and other sources), but many of the major components like the windmill and water tank are refurbished cast-offs from old farms.

The tilapia are doing great. I'll post some pictures. Theoretically, they can grow to 3 or more pounds. But, if you harvest them at 1.5 pounds, you'll get two nice fillets. They are very easy to grow.

Wow! That's quite windmill! Thanks for sharing this. We have a somewhat smaller out-of-commission windmill that also has a peppering of bulletholes. It must have been the thing to do way back when.

Have you run across any particularly useful resources for recycling windmills? We would love to see ours used again someday.

This seems to be a great resource for the windmill obsessed:

http://www.windmillersgazette.com/