THIS TOUR DIDN’T REACH THE MINIMUM REGISTRATIONS TO MAKE IT A GO—SORRY!

PLEASE KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THE NEXT TOUR AFTER COOLER WEATHER RETURNS.

Brad Lancaster, author of the award-winning, best-selling book series, Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, will lead this 2.5-hour tour of his home property (this is the only home property that will be on the tour) and sites within the public rights-of-ways of the Dunbar/Spring neighborhood.
A portion of the proceeds from the tour will help fund ongoing integrated water-harvesting, native food-tree planting, traffic-calming, and education efforts within the public realm of the neighborhood.
Some of the many features to be included in the tour:

• Low-tech, low-cost, gravity-fed (no pumps) potable rainwater-harvesting system providing for household water needs (including drinking water)

• Rainwater-harvesting tanks doubling as summer sun- and winter shade-harvesting systems, privacy/property fences, fire breaks, and more

• Passive, gravity-fed greywater-harvesting systems that reuse all household drainwater for safe irrigation of food plants that also help passively shade/cool buildings in summer while retaining the sun’s heat and light gain in winter.

• Flood-controlling, heat-island abating, and carbon-sequestering public gardens and orchards irrigated ONLY with on-site rainwater

• A tiny-house one-car-garage-to-cottage conversion resulting in a passively heated and cooled garottage

• Numerous strategies on how to maximize the harvest of winter sun AND summer shade in a way that reduces your water consumption, carbon emissions, and costs—these strategies work in ALL seasons, rather than working in only one season at the expense of others

• Sculpture that celebrates the seasonally changing path of the sun and the design of homes and gardens that make the most of the winter sun and summer shade

• Solar cooking, power, hot water, heating, lighting, and clothes drying

• Low-tech, low-cost, legal site-built compost toilet

• Self-regenerating living mulch machines that naturally bioremediate pollutants from street runoff

• Novel urban-wildlife habitat such as pollinator fences and shade screens

• Neighborhood-history sign project

• Neighborhood-scale water harvesting, native food-tree planting, traffic calming, and art—all celebrating and enhancing the story and potential of Place

For visual previews of some of these features: Click to enlarge the images below, check out these sun- and shade-harvesting and water-harvesting & cistern set-up videos, &/or read this enhanced stormwater-harvesting blog post.

• For the tour to have been held as planned would have required a minimum of 15 tickets sold by 7 pm MST on Thursday, April 2—which we did not reach. All ticket-holders will receive an email (at their PaypPal-related address) by 12 noon on Friday, April 3, either to confirm the tour or to announce its cancellation. If the tour is cancelled, all ticket-holders will receive a full refund. If the tour will be held as expected, the email will include details and logistics of the tour, including the address.
• If you wish to cancel your ticket(s) you must email us at admin@Harvesting Rainwater.com with your cancellation request by 7 pm MST on Thursday, April 2, to receive a refund. After that time, your ticket purchase becomes a donation in the event you are not able to attend or sell/give away your ticket.
• Tickets are transferable (you may give/sell your ticket to another person). When you arrive for the tour, simply provide the name of the original ticket-purchaser and we’ll check you in on our tour list.
• After you complete your ticket purchase, you will receive an automated confirmation email from PayPal and be brought back to this page. When one of us humans sees your purchase, we’ll generate a second confirmation email via PayPal. Thanks for your interest and support!