I'm so glad there are people like you on the Good Earth...

Great videos, very informative. I was a bit confused what popal trees were until I saw them and realized you were talking about poplar trees

great info! We purchased our property because at the very back there is a creek running by. this really have great useful info. Bless you always starry. Blessings y'all

Such awesome info Starry! Thanks for sharing all of this with us. I've been wondering about how folks find their springs. I learn something every time I watch one of your vids. You do a great service for those of us that are thinking about off grid living. All the best to you and Mr. H.!

This is one of my favorite videos of yours, Ms. Starry. Beautifully done and great information. Thank you so much. ~Sherrie from South Carolina

This is excellent! I'm planning on buying land up here in the Cascades in the future, and while I don't have all of the know-how to do off-grid stuff, I plan on learning. I don't want to do it as some sort of activism or fad; I just want some self-sufficiency. My own water, my own power (not too sure about food; I'm not very good with edible plants). But this is great! I'll have to study more so I can check prospective properties for springs and seeps and what-have-you's. A creek would be ideal, of course, but those tend to increase property values...

Such an informative video. Water is so important!!

Thank you Starry & Mr Hilder! Just found your channel recently so slowly going thru them and learning a lot as I go. I appreciate all the weed whacking and climbing you had to do to show us. :) Peace to you both!!

This is such an awesome helpful channel. I am binge watching and learning so much. Thanks!

Beautiful piece of land. You're videos are inspiring and helpful, thank you!

I learned so much from your videos since there’s a drought in Midwest

Thank you Very Much for sharing. I have learned quite a bit and the Video was very informative! I look forward to finding my Spring and Homestead in Northern AZ.

God bless! really love your knowledge and truth it's a learning experience watching! thank you for sharing 💖 God bless you

Thank you for sharing! We are fans! You are such an inspiration. I've been praying a lot and asking the Lord for guidance in this whole journey of ours to prepare to go off grid. So much research & just trying to get the finances to even start. I am looking into Idaho & Tennessee mostly but feel a little overwhelmed with so much information. Thank you so much for clarifying and edifying us as to what to expect and what not to expect. You are a true blessing! God bless you & keep you!

Great video, Starry. Water is the most important resource on a piece of property. Thank you for sharing.

Thanks for the education and advice ! God Bless, Don

Always like going on these walks with you. Thanks!

Thanks so much for the information. It will come in handy. Blessings.

Another good informative video. Thanks for taking the time and sharing. Peace

You just "popple" all you want! I have never lived in Wisconsin, but my first thought when I heard you was, "That's what they must call them there!" And it was no big deal. You are a delight!

You always give such detailed description! I love it! Thanks for the info! "YOU ROCK"!! Love your videos!!

All your information is so where to catch you in awhile I love it keep on giving up I bought a home on a tax sale and it's in a rural area

Good tips on what to look for. In my area here in the subtropics of south Florida pine trees are indicative of highlands and oak trees for wet land. I hear water wells are easy to dig here and not too deep. When I lived in California water wells were very expensive because they have to drill through granite...very, very hard and they also have to go deep, sometimes hundreds of feet if not close to 1,000 and you aren't even guaranteed to hit water. The average cost to have a water well drilled out there was $15K and that was 20 years ago! Here in Florida it's soft limestone and you can have a well dug for $2K or so I hear.

Great vid, I would love to see more on the development of the spring and seeps. Xx

Thanks so much for sharing Starry...great video yet again! God bless sweet sister!

I definitely agree

Great video. Lots of very good information! Please keep up the videos they are appreciated very much. JC

Great video ....water number one for sure. If you can not drill for it or spring of some sort you will be in trouble . thanks for taking the time to do this

Very cool! Thank you for the information! There is a ground spring on my land I have so many ideas..also planning to go off grid there and thinking of how I can use the spring as a refrigerator option I'm interested In how you did that!!

Great video. I subscribed. I am looking at land right now. Thanks for the video.

God bless you my sister

Such valuable information!

Very helpful! Feels good to be resourceful

Great info, spot on!

Love your video. Did you know that you have a natural sourse of food there. In the early spring you can digup the cattails and harvest the roots. Tastes good in salads. When the tail begins to form and is still young you can cook it like corn.

Thanks for the info.

Sooooooo much enjoying your channel with this wonderful information.Blessings !

I subscribed too,this was so helpful. This and your other videos will help me and my family develop our off the grid mobile home in Maine>Thank you!

You are so cool! I keep looking for property that is cheap

thank you for the info good to know this

love the video thank you so much for sharing

love your videos...thanks!

God bless you and thanks for the great video.

great info. I had a ranch over 10 yrs ago where we had a seep that we dug for a pond and it was a spring...so the pond was spring fed and filled quickly after the first rain. the digging and the extra moisture probably unblocked it. now I wish you were here to help me! I have a creek running on the back...but it's a hike to get down to it. I have a light seep but I can't always locate it...just seems to be moist when everything else is dry.

Awesome video! Thank you :)

Thanks for sharing!

thank you for this video!

Great video.

Thanks for this. I sure learned a lot from this video.

Great information!

Coolness thank you for sharing

My wife's parents lived in an older home out in the country. It had a cistern on top of the hill that feed water to the house. The water was good but there was little water pressure. They had to fill a bucket to flush the upstairs toilet. They later had a well drilled & stopped using the cistern. As a kid I spent a large amount f time in the woods. We live in SW PA & Northern WVA. I found a ton of artesian springs gushing out of the ground. As a kid I would drink from these on a hot summer afternoon after spending some time out in the woods. I can remember hearing this rushing sound. I found small sink holes with large amounts of water running through them. The soil had a layer of a grey clay that stopped the absorption of the water. I always wondered about these places in the woods. Many were at the top of a hill.

Old silver mine very cool. I just have old coal mines on mine. You have a great water source. I think you have already seen mine. I'm getting about 1 gal every 16 seconds.

Great video

Starry, Hello there from Nova Scotia Canada... I wanted to write to let you know that I discovered your videos this weekend after my boyfriend and I have started to look at our off grid options. We are planning on doing this in 4-5 yrs. We are very close to buying our first property (approx 1 acre) and are so looking forward to starting our new life! I have learned a lot from your videos already, so keep them coming! Any ones you would recommend for beginners? Thanks again!

Cool area.

Thanks for the info...👏🙂👏🙂👏🙂👏

love your videos. I have a spring on my property been there for 37 years I know of. flows all summer. anyways its at the bottom of a hill. problem is I'm building a house on top of the hill.no gravity for ram pump. I need trying to find where it could come out of the hill above but no luck. Any ideas appreciated.

use a forked peach green limb and grab forks stick away from and walk when you find water the end will go towards the ground. you can dig a well that will give you the water for a family and more

Thank You

Great advice

Awesome, thanks for the tips

awesome ...thank you

I just use the dowsing method with two sticks or wires(best), never dug or drilled a dry hole yet. Can find water if it's there to be found. Have found water down to 130 feet, I cant find it below that but me grandfadder have found it at 200

I believe that your flexible black pipe is either ABS or Polyethylene rather than PVC which is rigid. I lived for a few years where I had a 1 1/2 inch ABS pipe feeding from a hillside spring and I had about 90 psi to deal with.

hi Starry, poplar trees (and quaking aspen) aren't the only indicator tree species to watch for, willow and red alder (in the inter mountain west, alder grows usually as a shrub) are also good ones to watch for. on some slopes engelmann spruce is another good indicator species when it grows in clumps in an almost homogeneous stand of other species, in your forbs: bracken and angelhair ferns and as you mentioned the horsetails. (you said cattails and pointed at the horsetails), cattails take rather long to establish and require standing water year round so you generally see cattails in swampy areas and less in seeps. cotton grass is also another water loving plant that shows moisture where it is present the other thing you really should look at once you do find water coming out of the ground is whether or not the water is clear or has an orange slime in it. the orange slime is usually a ferrous sulfide complex that is leaching out of the rock. this kind of water should be avoided. you *shouldn't* use or drink water coming from a mine drift.. the one you have, will have super high concentrations of lead in the water. silver is often found with lead and zinc in the ore. one thing to keep in mind is that *ALL* ground water will show traces of arsenic when testing for it. heavy metals such as silver and lead also carry a higher concentration of arsenic compounds which is why drinking water coming from a shaft, drift or additt is not a very good idea. geology plays the most important role in whether or not your property will have water available. the plants will merely show the presence or absence of water veins in the topography. cheers mike

Good information.

Thats some great information thanks.

There are ways to use even springs lower then the location you need water by using ether a ram pump or a solar pump. A ram pump uses water hammer to pump water by using 2/3's of the water to push 1/3 of it to a much greater height. For lower producing springs you can also get them setup to use another water as the drive so something like a creek or stream provides the energy to send the spring water higher. Solar pumping you simply create a holding tank below the spring and setup a 24-48vDC pump run directly off solar to pump the water to above the location you need it to another tank. Developing the springs can be fun and done cheap using a plastic barrel to create a dam clay to seal it to the rocks you cant move gravel to fill the void and plastic to seal it in so animals and runoff cant get into it. For locations far from a road and up hill old backpack frames work well to hold a 5 gallon bucket so the weight of the gravel is supported as if it was just a heavy backpack, Just remember to have something to support the weight at both the start and spring location so you can get it on and off without spilling.

Thanks for the great info! God Bless!

Nice job!! liked and subbed

wow, a great video, very informative

Thanks for the Info ! Beautiful ! Wish I Had a Silver Mine ! LOL !!

That's a very beautiful view across the mountains looks breath taking wow..

Very knowledgeable, wise, and Beautiful Sister, good video, thanks, blessings and respect.......Seven Thunders///////

H sister thank you for this great video i can I get water from spring in winter time , does the spring freeze in the winter ?thankyou

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Hello, When he laid down the PVC piping on the ground, you mentioned it wouldn't freeze because he had good flow. Where are you located wondering what kinda winter condition you have.Thanks

Sweet. we have a seep in the corner of our yard. we actually have had to put French drain in one side of the trailer because of it. But...how do we work the seep?

R. A. T. “Rat Here” I Love it!!! 🤣🙏

we have seeps on our property and we use them for garden irrigation (use what you have)

By the way I posted your video on my blog thanks for the great tips.

awesome. very important. very cool. great video as usual. 💦☝✌

I'm curious what the flow rate would be in the desert southwest for a good, year-round spring?

Rocky ground springs different from clay hill springs. I sit on 135' clay hill , and have an underground spring about 5-10' underground on my prop.

Enjoy your videos. Thats one crazy river below you. Can you see or hear that saw mill across the river and to the north of you? Look like your about 20 miles from the Canada border.

awesome stuff here my friend!! love this video. Im really thirsty now!

The Lord is plenty generous! Oh praise the Lord! Thanks for a wonderful vid. ATB, Jb.

Charming lady. Seems like she could almost be a sister to Carol Burnett.

Starry, I am a new subscriber. love your videos, very informative. How long have you and your husband been on your homestead?

your videos are awesome, you are awesome, I still dont fully understand how to fully develop a possible trickle stream, is it just to dig it out deeper then stick a pipe in it and let it flow down hill with a pipe or hose to the home stead ? or is there more involved?

Somehow auto-play switched me over to "50 yr old girl chopping wood" - jeesh - thank god I'm back to Starry Hilder and something that MAKES SENSE !! Thanks Starry

That's White Poplar trees, there are also Black Poplar, also called cottonwood trees due to their fluff seed pods.

I have been watching hand dug wells

great information. to bad in Arizona it doesn't apply. every area that has a spring is national forest, or land own by the state or the county. in my area I think to drill a well we would have to drill a few hundred miles. ok maybe not miles. lol but it seems that way. its common for wells to be over 500 feet. so when looking for off grid do you want rain harvest or go to your area and find a spring. lol.

What is your water source used for?? is it potable . In Cal. that water source can be use for animals only.

Do u boil water before consuming or treat w charcoal or ceramic gravity filter? Ha at the end of yr vid u answered my querry! This is fascinating tho and Im really curious about developing a water resource. Our water has a HIGH sulfur content and testing immature shale deposits for oil in our area has left the ground water OILY! ugh nasty stuff! Were on grid an electric pump buried 160 ft down brings us our water then its filtered thru 4 filter housings and injected w peroxide to remove sulfur. I wish we could figure out a better way to get better quality of water but everyone within a 25 mile radius has high sulfur. We have a spring fed pond next to our property but its not ours and cows and thousands of geese poop in it every year! I wonder, " What would the Hilders do in this situation for better water?"

I love your dread natty dreads!

amen

I have a spring on my place but we have a pasture next to me and the creek runs into my source he's fence is 20 feet from the source what can I do to keep it good the spring runs great even in the summer time any info from you or anyone can't hurt