by Brad Lancaster www.HarvestingRainwater.com Why buy all food or materials for shade structures for your chickens when you can grow many of these resources and more? Plants native to your area and your…
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The new full-color, revised editions of Brad Lancaster’s books Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volumes 1 and 2 are Independent Press Award winners. In addition, Volume 1 is a semi-finalist for a…
I just released the new, full-color, 3rd edition of Volume 1 in E-BOOK format. This makes the book far more affordable for those outside the U.S., since there are no insanely costly international…
By Brad Lancaster © 2019HarvestingRainwater.com I love turning “wastes” into resources, thus I love the creative reuse of “urbanite” — the abundant “rock” of broken up chunks of discarded concrete rubble. And I…
I’m conducting the giveaway of signed copies of the full-color, 2nd edition of Volume 2 September 27 to October 10, 2019. This giveaway is only for people with mailing addresses in the…
I’m conducting the giveaway of signed copies of the just-released, full-color, 3rd edition of Volume 1 beginning September 25, 2019. This giveaway is only for people with mailing addresses in the United States,…
By Brad Lancaster © 2019 HarvestingRainwater.com I love water and seek it out when I hike—especially tinajas, natural water pools in the desert. Such ephemeral pools can be created with simple strategies in…
by Brad Lancaster © 2018www.HarvestingRainwater.com Greywater harvesting—the practice of directing the drain water from household sink, bathtub, shower, and clothes washers to your landscape plantings—can lead to big water savings. It turns “waste”…
by Brad Lancaster © 2017 www.HarvestingRainwater.com Southern Arizona has a rich water-harvesting history that is too often forgotten or lost. Though sometimes gems are dusted off, unearthed, remembered, or even celebrated—and they…
This blog entry was graciously provided by J. Tabatabaee Yazdi, who hosted me when I presented at the Iranian Rainwater Catchment Systems Association conference in 2014. You can see my writings and photos…