Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond by Brad Lancaster

Saturday, December 19, 2009
12:05 pm

Mrs. Green Goes Mainstream

The FIRST EVER “green” radio talk show in Tucson airing Saturdays. Listen at 12:05 PM on NEWSTALK 790 KNST or click here to listen live. Mrs. Green interviews exciting and fun guests from all over the country covering every green topic you can imagine: solar, fashion, food, gardening, school programs, alternative fuel, organic wines, green golf courses, sustainability. It’s all on the list! Bringing her passion and energy to the show, Mrs. Green asks “what if living green can be fun?” Listeners from all over the country can call in to talk to Mrs. Green or ask questions of her guests. The KNST phone number is 520-880-KNST (5678).

Green Streets Block Party
Saturday, April 10, 2010, 4 – 7 pm

Join Watershed Management Group for an evening fundraiser that will include live music from Spirit Familia and catered dinner featuring local, organic ingredients.  The event will begin with tours of WMG’s award winning work to green neighborhood streets in the Rincon Heights Neighborhood.  We’ll be closing off two street blocks around the Feld Davis park (8th St. & Martin) in the Rincon Heights neighborhood for this festive party!

Event tickets are available at a price of $25 for adults, $15 for children ages 7 to 14, and children 6 and under for free.  You may purchase tickets online at watershedmg.org/earthmonth, or by sending a check made out to Watershed Management Group, PO Box 65953, Tucson AZ 85728.  Please indicate how many will be attending with your check or purchase online.  Tickets must be purchased in advance!  For more information, contact Lisa Shipek at lisa@watershedmg.org or by calling 520-396-3266.

This presentation is a part of the New Mexico Organic Farming Conference.

For more information about the conference, including schedule and registration, visit:
www.farmtotablenm.org/fts/new-mexico-organic-farming-conference-february-19-20/

Brad’s talk is on Friday, February 19, 2010, from 1:30 – 3 pm

Location: Marriott Pyramid
5151 San Francisco Road NE
Albuquerque NM 87109

Water Harvesting: Planting the Rain to Grow Abundance
Brad Lancaster, author of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volumes 1 & 2, is back by popular demand. Brad will cover the basic elements of harvesting rainwater, from how to identify sources, to understanding the flow of water, to guiding water to its destination. The talk will focus on the principles of rainwater assessment and harvesting, and the principles learned will be applicable to any situation from urban garden, to orchard, to ranch. Following his talk, Brad will be available to sign copies of his book, available for sale on site.

Brad will be speaking at 10 am and 2 pm on February 20, 2010.

See below for the full seminar schedule.

Dates: Saturdays from January 9 to February 20, 2010.

Location: Santa Fe Greenhouses, 2904 Rufina St, Santa Fe NM 87507

Cost: $7.50 per seminar with a $5 discount coupon for use in the SFG store.
There is also a Seminar Pass available for all 7 seminars for $35.

For more information: Call (505) 473-2700 or toll free (877) 811-2700, or visit santafegreenhouses.com/events.php

Santa Fe Greenhouses presents:
“Plant it Together: Food, Flowers and Fun”

Seminar Schedule

1/9/2010 @ 2pm, Xeriscaping is Green:  Integrating Food, Flowers and Environmentally Responsible Landscaping
Presented by David Salman, President & Chief Horticulturist, Santa Fe Greenhouses
Learn how you can be an eco-contributor with “green” xeriscaping. Discover the essential connections in your garden and landscape between plant diversity, pollinators, growing food and living soils that create the web of life. This talk will provide practical information for creating a water thrifty landscape that provides food, beauty and enjoyment in an environmentally friendly fashion.

1/16/2010 @ 2pm, Designing Integrity: Natives and Edibles as Foundation Plants
Presented by Christie Green, Landscape Designer and Proprietress of Down to Earth, LLC
Christie Green will engage participants in the landscape design process with particular attention to incorporating native and edible plant species as resilient, useful foundation plantings for all garden types and sizes. Ecological integrity and ingenuity inform Christie’s designs; she will share suggestions for approaching the landscape with fresh creativity.

1/23/2010 @ 2pm, Vegetable Gardening Basics
Presented by Jim Sais – Horticultural Consultant and Co-host of NM Gardentalk on KKOB Radio
Growing a vegetable garden is healthful, cost effective and rewarding.  One of New Mexico’s favorite gardening teachers will discuss designing and planning your veggie garden from seed choices to tried and true care and planting techniques.

1/30/2010 @ 2pm, Building your Soil Naturally
Presented by Greg Birkenfeld, President of Soil Mender
The foundation of every garden is healthy, living soil.  Learn about adding natural and organic soil amendments to develop rich and fertile soil.  Start your garden right with Greg’s down and dirty soil secrets and reap the benefits!

2/6/2010 @ 2pm, Junque Yards: Creative Gardening with Found Objects
Presented by Scott Calhoun, Author and Landscape Designer
Join award-winning gardening author Scott Calhoun as he shares his creative ideas on how to repurpose found objects and use them in your landscape. Back by popular demand, Scott’s humor, excellent photography and innovative sense of design will entertain and inspire you to have fun in your garden. There will be a book signing following his talk.

2/13/2010 @ 2pm, Grow Your Own Fruit
Presented by Ron Walser, Fruit specialist, NMSU’s Agricultural Science Center at Los Lunas
Ron will share his 35 years of experience and knowledge in researching and organically growing fruits and berry plants as the urban small farm specialist. Attendees will come away with knowledge of the best techniques and fruit varieties for Northern New Mexico.

2/20/2010 @ 10am & 2pm, Water Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond
Presented by Brad Lancaster, Author/Integrated Systems Designer/Consultant
In his best-selling, award-winning books, Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1 and Volume 2, Brad Lancaster encourages us to turn water scarcity into water abundance by welcoming rainwater, storm water runoff, and grey water into our lives, landscape, and soil.  Sharing techniques and strategies from around the world, some ancient, some new, from the home scale to the neighborhood and community scale, readers are empowered to create their own integrated water-sustainable landscape plans, and implement them.

Right-of-Way Water Harvesting Workshop
Saturday, November 21, 2009
12:30 pm – 5 pm

Join Watershed Management Group (WMG) to learn how to harvest stormwater from neighborhood streets! As part of WMG’s and Rincon Heights’ model program to improve water quality in urban neighborhoods, we’ll be shaping basins and swales, laying rock work and gravel, and planting native vegetation. This workshop will be of particular interest to those who want to learn more about working in the City of Tucson’s right-of-way (between sidewalk and curb) to harvest rain water from adjacent properties, sidewalks, and from street runoff via curb cuts. The workshop will include information on city requirements, and hands-on practice working within this valuable and often overlooked public space.  Instruction in Spanish will be available.

There is space for 15 people at this free, public workshop. To reserve your spot, please RSVP (required) to:

James MacAdam
520-396-3266
james@watershedmg.org

Right-of-Way Water Harvesting Workshop
Saturday, October 24, 2009
8 am – 12:30 pm

Join Watershed Management Group (WMG) to learn how to harvest stormwater from neighborhood streets! As part of WMG’s and Rincon Heights’ model program to improve water quality in urban neighborhoods, we’ll be shaping basins and swales, laying rock work and gravel, and planting native vegetation. This workshop will be of particular interest to those who want to learn more about working in the City of Tucson’s right-of-way (between sidewalk and curb) to harvest rain water from adjacent properties, sidewalks, and from street runoff via curb cuts. The workshop will include information on city requirements, and hands-on practice working within this valuable and often overlooked public space.  Instruction in Spanish will be available.

There is space for 15 people at this free, public workshop. To reserve your spot, please RSVP (required) to:

James MacAdam
520-396-3266
james@watershedmg.org

For the latest Symposium details, including schedule, presenters, registration, and contact info visit: getthegreenback.net.

2010 Peak to Prairie
Landscape Symposium

An educational forum inspiring the communities of Southern Colorado to create appealing and enduring landscapes suitable for our soils, climate and finite water resources.

Friday, February 26 & Saturday, February 27

Doubletree Hotel’s World Arena
1775 E Cheyenne Mountain Blvd
Colorado Springs, CO 80906-4030

Brad will be speaking twice during the Symposium:

Passive Earthworks Strategies on Friday, February 26, from 9-10 am, and

Keynote Address: Basic Rainwater Strategies on Saturday, February 27, from 8-9 am

More about the Symposium:
Homeowners and industry professionals will learn the latest landscape design tips, trends and more at the 2010 Peak to Prairie Landscape Symposium.

This two-day event will focus on creating and maintaining unique and sustainable landscapes in our semi-arid climate. Regional experts will present on a variety of subjects, including the latest in water-wise landscape design, plant selection, installation and maintenance.

Ever looked at an actively eroding gully or headcut and wondered what to do about it?

Erosion leaves the landscape drier and less productive, and is especially serious in semi-arid environments since soils develop at extremely slow rates.

A free gully rehabilitation workshop will be conducted September 27, 2009, from 9am to 4pm in the Mimbres Valley of New Mexico (30 miles east of Silver City) for producers, landowners, land managers, and anyone concerned with watershed health.

If you’re interested in learning about restoration techniques you can actually use to improve your land, then this is the workshop for you.  During the workshop, participants will learn hands-on how to design, construct, and maintain a variety of different erosion control structures using low-cost techniques and local materials that dissipate the energy of water, capture sediment, and retain moisture.  These structures promote vegetation establishment, which further anchors the soil.

GullyRegister early since space is limited to 20 people.  For more information and to register, please contact Rebecca Benavidez at (575)-388-1416. The workshop will be instructed by Craig Sponholtz of Dryland Solutions, Inc., and is sponsored by the Grant Soil and Water Conservation District and the New Mexico Environment Department.

Brad will be working with students at the Academy during the day on February 23 & 24, 2010.

Please see the next entry for details on a public talk to be given in the evening on Wednesday, February 24, in Simms Auditorium on the Albuquerque Academy campus.

For more information about Albuquerque Academy, please visit them online at www.aa.edu.

ProGreen Expo runs from February 9-12.

Details about Brad’s presentation:

Water Harvesting to Turn Scarcity into Abundance

Thursday, February 11, 2010

9:15 – 10:15 am

Room 603

Intermediate/Advanced Class
Water-harvesting principles and simple, effective strategies to empower you to create integrated water-sustainable landscapes.  The harvest of rainwater, greywater, stormwater and air conditioning condensate will all be discussed. Low-cost, passive, dynamic strategies will be emphasized, which can result in huge water savings, local food security, flood control, summer cooling and more.

Location:
Colorado Conference Center
700 14th St, Denver, Colorado

For the most current ProGreen EXPO info, visit progreenexpo.com/index.html.

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email:info@progreenexpo.com

toll-free:
(800) 397-6665 (EXPO)

phone:
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