The Urban Farmer Store

The only Plumbing/Irrigation Supply business that opens on weekends. As fate happens only on the most inconvenient times (weekends). Checked out several places, but only Urban Farmer was open with the right parts to fix my irrigation system. Called and spoke with Steve who verified that they had the parts needed in stock.  Great place for your irrigation needs. They have interesting gardening tools. Like a Weeder that they named Crack Weedeater. It's a thin metal blade that has teeth angled up so when you insert it next to the weed the teeth grab the roots and pulls the whole weed out.  Pretty neat stuff. Check them out for your irrigation and gardening needs.

We bought a house on Oahu that had a large rain barrel but no gutters.  We hired someone to install gutters and needed the outdoor plumbing to take the runoff away fro the house and to the rain barrel.  Steve was extremely knowledgeable and patient as we walked through the store and picked out everything I needed to complete the job.  I left completely satisfied and confident it will be a job well done.

I recently learned about the $40 rebated for installing a rain collection barrel in my yard. It's connected to my downspout, and even though it's not supposed to rain all that much here, with just four downspouts for the whole house, I had witnessed some serious runoff.  I chose to get my barrel from The Urban Farmer Store because they offered a complete installation kit as part of the purchase. The directions and the kit were very easy to understand, but we ran into one snag--I have round downspouts, and the kit is set up for people with square/rectangular downspouts. Yeah...come to think of it, who has round ones?? Me. Anyway, I took a trip back to the store, and they couldn't have been nicer about helping me get a round downspout diverter.

Installation was quite easy. If you have the right tools, and know-how, I would say it's a 15-minute job. I had the right tools and very little know-how, so it took me around 30 to 45 minutes. There was a storm coming (the one that also brought hail to many areas) that night and I got the job done. The barrel was 100% full by morning.

Ok but I digress. The Urban Farmer Store folks are really super nice. We went there three times--first to just scope out the selection. Second, we inadvertently went to buy our rain barrel right when they were closing, but had no idea. We took a little stroll around the store on our third trip back to get the right part. They TONS of knee pad/kneeling pads, a good selection of garden saws, and a lot of other stuff for installing sprinklers, etc. Things I know nothing about, but they know their stuff. They even gave me the forms for the rebate! There's easy parking, and if you live in town, the place is conveniently located in Mapunapuna.