Donna Wellman waters greens and other vegetables at her Grinning Planet Farm at Owsley Fork using water collected from rain barrels. Wellman and her partner Mark Jeantheau, who moved to Berea from Maryland in 2005, have a 10,000-gallon underground cistern in addition to several rain barrels. They have 12 raised beds to grow salad greens, radishes, turnips, tomatoes and strawberries. The couple also generates almost all of their electricity with solar panels.

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