We got ours from a larger farm nearby a few years ago - they had purchased a soy based fertilizer and the distributor didn’t have any return/recycle incentives so the farmer was selling them on the cheap. I think we found the guy through the farm & garden craigslist section but I can’t really speak to how reliable that is anymore. If you’ve got a winter farmers market around you it might be worth asking around there (I’m loathe to suggest fb marketplace but if you’re already there that might be convenient as well)
I’m curious where you got your rain water containers - I’d like to get something around that size this year.
We got ours from a larger farm nearby a few years ago - they had purchased a soy based fertilizer and the distributor didn’t have any return/recycle incentives so the farmer was selling them on the cheap. I think we found the guy through the farm & garden craigslist section but I can’t really speak to how reliable that is anymore. If you’ve got a winter farmers market around you it might be worth asking around there (I’m loathe to suggest fb marketplace but if you’re already there that might be convenient as well)
FB marketplace may be where I end up - I’ve seen big fluid totes on there when I’ve looked in the past.
It’s not too hard to make containers in that size out of chicken-mesh and cement. Search for “ferrocement” and rainwater harvesting jar or so.