In this video, Brad Lancaster shows how native food-bearing trees and understory vegetation planted within or beside passive rain- and stormwater-harvesting rain gardens is able to shade and cool the neighborhood street by…
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May 3, 2023
We planted over 60,000 gallons of annual stormwater, 36 native food-bearing trees and bush trees, & 114 multi-use native understory plants in this year’s annual neighborhood rain & native food forest planting. See…
December 12, 2022
A case study planting rain and neighborhood native food forests to grow regenerative abundance By Brad Lancaster (Author) and Karryn Olson (Editor) with The Regenerative Economy Collaborative I get up predawn to pee,…
November 29, 2022
Brad Lancaster HarvestingRainwater.com Check out the newly published paper “Green stormwater infrastructure in a semi-arid climate: The influence of rain gardens on soil moisture over seven years” by Aaron T. Kauffman of Southwest…
November 22, 2022
by Brad Lancaster To address dwindling Colorado River water supplies, upon which many communities depend, western cities are committing to reducing ornamental grass and its associated water use (figures 1 and 2). That’s…
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September 24, 2022
by Brad Lancaster My heart sinks, but I also want to act, when I read of, and experience, suffering as is often the case with worsening climate conditions, such as how my desert…
September 20, 2022
This system works great as a temporary drip irrigation system to get your newly planted plants established. Move them around as needed. Once your plants are established, this bucket irrigation system moves on…
September 10, 2022
Drought-deciduous plants have adapted to drop many or all of their leaves in dry seasons and/or drought to conserve water.Then revive with a quick, vibrant growth of leaves upon arrival of the rains,…
August 23, 2022
This is a wonderful example in this time of great need for water conservation and collaboration, which I’ve added to my Self-Guided Water Tour of Tucson. See the story and photos in the…
August 4, 2022
Chiricahua Mountains, southern Arizona, USA By Brad Lancasterwww.HarvestingRainwater.com The following is a revised excerpt from the first edition of my book Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2… Nestled in the western…