One of our neighbors dug out a spring on his property and installed pipes. It is right on the side of a little country road, and the whole community uses it.

It is so good when people work together to help each other. Everyone doesn’t need their own spring. They just need good neighbors. Maybe you have something your neighbor needs? Homesteading and country living is much easier when people work together.

Our neighbor, a local pastor, has the water tested once a year just to make sure it is pure and safe to drink. It tastes sooooo good! Cold, clean, and crystal clear!

You can pull your car right up within 20 feet or so, and I keep a big 5 gallon, wide-mouthed carboy in the passenger seat and fill it with the old enamel pitcher that you see in the video.

Many people would just fill the carboy, but it is much too heavy for me to carry.

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You can still buy these enamel pitchers! Here is a link to one exactly like mine if you are interested. Enamelware Farmhouse Pitcher 10 inch. It holds about a gallon and takes me 4 trips from spring to car.

In the old days, when people had no refrigeration, they would build little stone houses over their spring, “spring houses.” They would keep their butter and milk and other things they didn’t want to spoil in the spring house. A pitcher of other container could be placed in the flow of the water, and the water was so cold it would act like a refrigerator.

Stone works best for building spring houses because the interior stays cooler in the summer time and will not heat up like a wood structure.

We had another neighbor tap into a spring on his property last week! They have not had their water tested yet, but his wife said it is so good! Here are a few of the pics he sent me and a short video.

Unlike drilling a well, it costs virtually nothing to tap into a spring–just the cost of your PVC pipe. You can get a little more elaborate by installing a rock reservoir and spring boxes, but neither of the springs that we use have that, and they work just fine.

We have two springs on our property. Tapping into them is on our To-do list. When we get around to doing this, I will post a video of the process. It is really quite simple to do.