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DESCRIPTION:25th Annual Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Rain\, Tree\, & Food Forest Planting – Tucson\, AZ\n\nSaturday\, April 24\, 2021 @ 8:00 am – 11:00 am\nFree\n \n\n\n\n\nThis planting of rain\, trees\, understory\, & wildflowers is occurring in the Dunbar/Spring neighborhood\, but the planting event is open to anyone from any neighborhood\, and is a great opportunity to see how such an event\, or other Neighborhood Forester endeavors\, could be organized elsewhere.\nNeighborhood volunteers planting street-side water-harvesting basin.Photo: Brad Lancaster\nDate: Saturday\, April 24\, 2021.\nThe stormwater eddy basins (each having over 4\,500-gallon annual capacity) were just completed – so now we can plant. We plant the rain before we plant the plants!\nTime: 8:00 am for a planting demonstration\, then keep going to various parts of the neighborhood. We start early to beat the heat. The demonstration will show you how to plant the rain to maximize its potential\, how to plant food-bearing native trees by seed and/or with nursery stock to maximize passive summer shading/cooling\, and how to recycle/plant prunings and leaves as fertility-building\, carbon-sequestering\, pollutant-filtering\, water-harvesting mulch. End time of 11am is approximate.\nMeeting spot: 902 N. 10th Ave\, Tucson AZ 85705 (south of property\, on 2nd Street)\nOnce we finish planting there\, we’ll move to the following locations in Dunbar/Spring:\n836 N. 10th Ave\n123 W. 4th Street\nThen at 8am on Sunday\, April 25 we’ll do another planting in West University Neighborhood.\nVolunteer planting crew of neighborhood foresters just after planting street-side water-harvesting basin.Hose is giving the just-planted plants a good first watering.\nCome join us in planting native shade trees and understory vegetation within or beside water-harvesting earthworks in the public rights-of-way. The idea is to plant native food-producing\, flood-controlling\, wildlife-habitat-producing\, beautiful\, air- and water-filtering\, living air conditioners. Street trees that shade up to 75% of the street’s surface can also cool summer neighborhood temperatures by up to 20ºF. This enhances the walkability and bikeability of our neighborhoods\, which improves health and drops crime. When we harvest street runoff to irrigate the street trees\, we also reduce water consumption (by reducing our use of drinking water from the municipal supply) and we reduce downstream flooding. Thus far this annual event has resulted in over 1\,600 trees being planted in our neighborhood\, hundreds of understory plants\, and contributed to annually harvesting over one million gallons of stormwater that used to go to the stormdrain—let’s keep going!\n \nWhat to bring: Work clothes\, sun hat\, gloves\, snacks\, and water as we’ll be working outdoors. A pointed shovel\, pruning tools\, and/or hard rake would also be great (and we’ll have some extra tools on hand for those lacking them).\n \n\nBonus: We’ll also help you identify desired native wildflowers to encourage – and pesky invasive weeds to pull – so next year we have more wildflowers and fewer weeds.\nPlanting native wildflower seed around street-side water-harvesting basin.Photo: Brad Lancaster\nAnd you can purchase the new\, full-color\, revised editions of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond at deep discount direct from the author Brad Lancaster.\n \n \nInfo that follows just gives you more info on the program that created the basins we’ll be planting\, to inspire you to sign up for next year’s rain planting or to organize one in other neighborhoods…\n  \n\nWater-Harvesting-Basin-Creation Service:\nThis year we are working with licensed contractors (John Litzel of Little John Excavating and Jeff Rhody of Dryland Design) to:\n• Dig the basin(s) [average size is 5-8 feet long x 5 feet wide x 1 foot deep] with a backhoe\n• Remove excavated soil with backhoe and dump truck\n• Deliver and hand-set local Catalina granite rock to stabilize the basin banks and planting terraces.\n• Drill core holes or curb cuts in the street curb to direct street runoff into the street-side basin for a lifetime of free stormwater irrigation and flood control\n• Handle the permitting\n• You’ll also get advice/input on ideal basin placement and plant selection.\nCosts\nAverage price (after City Rainwater Harvesting Rebate) is expected to be $500 per basin. Actual average cost is $1\,000 per basin with curb coring\, but the rebate covers half the cost up to $500.\nThis is an amazing deal! The average basin can capture over 4\,500 gallons per year (assuming average annual rainfall of 11 inches). Trees and other plantings planted with such basins grow to be healthier and  larger\, and have faster growth rates than those without such basins. And the basins bottoms and planting terrace can be seeded or planted with beautiful native understory plantings. See here for ideas of understory plantings and their ideal planting location.\nThis basin creation price is lower than market rates because we are able to get a bulk deal by pooling many installations and permits into one—it pays to collaborate as a community! We coordinate the design services\, underground utility markings\, permitting\, inspection\, and & contracting so you don’t have to!\nExcavation is done by a backhoe and operator\, excavated soil is removed from site (unless homeowner wants to use it elsewhere on property)\, and includes rock\, professional rockwork\, curb coring\, and wood chip mulch. This new set up with contractors is more sustainable than our past program\, because in the past a few volunteers would have to work for an additional week to finish up what was not completed in the public planting/basin creation day. Additionally\, under the current program basins are larger with much higher capacity – resulting in far more free irrigation stormwater and much more flood control.\nYou can see an example of Dryland Design’s rockwork in the public right of way in front of 236 W. University Blvd. (along with the photos below).\nNative trees (5-gallon size) cost $27 each. Understory plants (1-gallon size) cost $12 each. Native wildflower seed is included in basin price.\nWe highly recommend you plant trees\, understory plants\, and native wildflower seed all at the same time. This makes irrigating them all (to get them established) much easier as you are already irrigating\, and quickly establishes a living sponge of beautiful\, sheltering\, wildlife-supporting\, vegetation including edible and medicinal species.\nExpand or enhance existing water-harvesting basins\nThe basin creation service can also be used to enlarge or enhance existing (but perhaps undersized) basins.\nCreate a curb core to an existing street-side basin\nAverage cost per 4-inch diameter core hole drilled is $75. A fantastic deal\, because once done you get free stormwater for life – as long as you keep the core inlet clear of debris.\nALL TREE\, BASIN\, AND CURB CORING ORDERS MUST BE IN BY JANUARY 1\, 2020. \nEmail Brad at brad@harvestingrainwater.com  or Omar at nativeroots.az@gmail.com to get on the list and get your tree-order form(s)\, maintenance agreements\, and checklist to ensure your site will meet the requirements of this program and the city permit.\nYou can also EMAIL US TO GET ON THE LIST FOR NEXT YEAR\n• 2020 Tree & Understory Order Form is needed for trees that are to be planted in public right-of-way. The prices of these trees have been reduced/subsidized thanks to Trees for Tucson and neighborhood nurseryman Sky Jacobs.\n• Tree-Curb-core-and-Basin-maintenance-agreement-v1.3.-2019 must be filled out\, signed\, and handed in for every address ordering trees.\nRequirements to get the Rain and Tree Planting help of Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Foresters program:\n1. Invasive weeds must be removed from all areas you want to plant rainwater and trees BEFORE the rain and trees are planted.\n2. Must have a continuous pedestrian path minimum 5-feet wide\, cleared to a height of 7 feet\, and having an approved path surface in the public right-of-way adjoining your property.\nApproved pathway materials that maintain public access and walkability:\n• Compacted native soil. Free and already on site!\n• Screened organic material (woodchip) mulch no larger than 1/2-inch in particle size.\n(Do not apply mulch thicker than a 1-inch depth. Thicker depths bog down small wheels of babycarriages and wheelchairs).\nOne local mulch supplier is Tank’s Green Stuff.\n• Compacted or stabilized ¼ to 3/8-inch minus decomposed granite (DG).  \nThere are natural polymers that can be mixed in with the decomposed granite to better hold it together and stabilize it. DG is available from local landscape material suppliers. (Gary Wittwer\, past Landscape Architect\, City of Tucson Transportation Department told me this can be installed to be American Disabilities Act (ADA)-accessible\n• Pavers/brick\, which can be installed within the grade/slope tolerances of the ADA\n• Maintained concrete sidewalks (ADA-accessible)\nNon-approved\, non-accepted path materials that inhibit public access and walkability:\n• Loose rock or gravel\n• Decomposed granite larger than 3/8-inch in particle size\n• Course organic material (woodchip) mulch larger than 1-inch in size; or organic mulch thicker than 1-inch depth.\nNOTE: If you would like trees for planting on private property\, visit https://tucsoncleanandbeautiful.org/trees-for-tucson/ or call (520) 791-3109. Native and fruit trees are available (ideally you set up a greywater-harvesting system for these fruit trees first\, as they will require more water than native trees as well as regular watering in the hot and dry seasons). Note that the City of Tucson has a greywater-harvesting rebate covering up to half the cost of a greywater system with a rebate cap of $1\,000. \n\n\n\nDunbar Spring Neighborhood Rain Planting and Curb Coring Service flyer 2021\n\n\n\n\n\n \nExcavating and hauling away excavated soil to create street-side basin. \n\n \n \n \nBasin excavated. Checking depth of basin and planting terraces with laser level. \n\n \n \n \nBeautiful rock work stabilizing basin banks and planting terraces. Local surface rock – Catalina granite – used. \n\n \n \n \nDrilling 4-inch core hole to basin. \n\n  \n\nCore hole complete \n\n  \n \nRain and plants planted winter 2-2019 \n\n  \n \nFlourishing plants 6 months after planting 8-2019. Southeast corner 10th Avenue and 1st Street \n \n \nCurb core complete.\nReproduced with permission from Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, Volume 2\, 2nd Edition by Brad Lancaster
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/23027/
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SUMMARY:25th Annual Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Rain\, Tree\, & Food Forest Planting – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION: \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, April 24\, 2021 @ 8:00 am – 11:00 am\nFree\n\n\n\n\nThis planting of rain\, trees\, understory\, & wildflowers is occurring in the Dunbar/Spring neighborhood\, but the planting event is open to anyone from any neighborhood\, and is a great opportunity to see how such an event\, or other Neighborhood Forester endeavors\, could be organized elsewhere. \n\n \nNeighborhood volunteers planting street-side water-harvesting basin.\nPhoto: Brad Lancaster \n\nDate: Saturday\, April 24\, 2021.\nThe stormwater eddy basins (each having over 4\,500-gallon annual capacity) were just completed – so now we can plant. We plant the rain before we plant the plants!\nTime: 8:00 am for a planting demonstration\, then keep going to various parts of the neighborhood. We start early to beat the heat. The demonstration will show you how to plant the rain to maximize its potential\, how to plant food-bearing native trees by seed and/or with nursery stock to maximize passive summer shading/cooling\, and how to recycle/plant prunings and leaves as fertility-building\, carbon-sequestering\, pollutant-filtering\, water-harvesting mulch.\nEnd time of 11am is approximate.\nMeeting spot: 902 N. 10th Ave\, Tucson AZ 85705 (south of property\, on 2nd Street)\nOnce we finish planting there\, we’ll move to the following locations in Dunbar/Spring:\n836 N. 10th Ave\n123 W. 4th Street\nThen at 8am on Sunday\, April 25 we’ll do another planting in West University Neighborhood.\nCome join us in planting native shade trees and understory vegetation within or beside water-harvesting earthworks in the public rights-of-way. The idea is to plant native food-producing\, flood-controlling\, wildlife-habitat-producing\, beautiful\, air- and water-filtering\, living air conditioners. Street trees that shade up to 75% of the street’s surface can also cool summer neighborhood temperatures by up to 20ºF. This enhances the walkability and bikeability of our neighborhoods\, which improves health and drops crime. When we harvest street runoff to irrigate the street trees\, we also reduce water consumption (by reducing our use of drinking water from the municipal supply) and we reduce downstream flooding. Thus far this annual event has resulted in over 1\,600 trees being planted in our neighborhood\, hundreds of understory plants\, and contributed to annually harvesting over one million gallons of stormwater that used to go to the stormdrain—let’s keep going!\n \nWhat to bring: WEAR A MASK\, work clothes\, sun hat\, gloves\, snacks\, and water as we’ll be working outdoors. A pointed shovel\, pruning tools\, and/or hard rake would also be great (and we’ll have some extra tools on hand for those lacking them).\n \n\nBonus: We’ll also help you identify desired native wildflowers to encourage – and pesky invasive weeds to pull – so next year we have more wildflowers and fewer weeds. \n\n \nPlanting native wildflower seed around street-side water-harvesting basin.\nPhoto: Brad Lancaster \n\nAnd you can purchase the new\, full-color\, revised editions of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond at deep discount direct from the author Brad Lancaster.\n \n \nInfo that follows just gives you more info on the program that created the basins we’ll be planting\, to inspire you to sign up for next year’s rain planting or to organize one in other neighborhoods…\n  \n\nWater-Harvesting-Basin-Creation Service:\nThis year we are working with licensed contractors (John Litzel of Little John Excavating and Jeff Rhody of Dryland Design) to:\n• Dig the basin(s) [average size is 5-8 feet long x 5 feet wide x 1 foot deep] with a backhoe\n• Remove excavated soil with backhoe and dump truck\n• Deliver and hand-set local Catalina granite rock to stabilize the basin banks and planting terraces.\n• Drill core holes or curb cuts in the street curb to direct street runoff into the street-side basin for a lifetime of free stormwater irrigation and flood control\n• Handle the permitting\n• You’ll also get advice/input on ideal basin placement and plant selection.\nCosts\nAverage price (after City Rainwater Harvesting Rebate) is expected to be $500 per basin. Actual average cost is $1\,000 per basin with curb coring\, but the rebate covers half the cost up to $500.\nThis is an amazing deal! The average basin can capture over 4\,500 gallons per year (assuming average annual rainfall of 11 inches). Trees and other plantings planted with such basins grow to be healthier and  larger\, and have faster growth rates than those without such basins. And the basins bottoms and planting terrace can be seeded or planted with beautiful native understory plantings. See here for ideas of understory plantings and their ideal planting location.\nThis basin creation price is lower than market rates because we are able to get a bulk deal by pooling many installations and permits into one—it pays to collaborate as a community! We coordinate the design services\, underground utility markings\, permitting\, inspection\, and & contracting so you don’t have to!\nExcavation is done by a backhoe and operator\, excavated soil is removed from site (unless homeowner wants to use it elsewhere on property)\, and includes rock\, professional rockwork\, curb coring\, and wood chip mulch. This new set up with contractors is more sustainable than our past program\, because in the past a few volunteers would have to work for an additional week to finish up what was not completed in the public planting/basin creation day. Additionally\, under the current program basins are larger with much higher capacity – resulting in far more free irrigation stormwater and much more flood control.\nYou can see an example of Dryland Design’s rockwork in the public right of way in front of 236 W. University Blvd. (along with the photos below).\nNative trees (5-gallon size) cost $27 each. Understory plants (1-gallon size) cost $12 each. Native wildflower seed is included in basin price.\nWe highly recommend you plant trees\, understory plants\, and native wildflower seed all at the same time. This makes irrigating them all (to get them established) much easier as you are already irrigating\, and quickly establishes a living sponge of beautiful\, sheltering\, wildlife-supporting\, vegetation including edible and medicinal species.\nExpand or enhance existing water-harvesting basins\nThe basin creation service can also be used to enlarge or enhance existing (but perhaps undersized) basins.\nCreate a curb core to an existing street-side basin\nAverage cost per 4-inch diameter core hole drilled is $75. A fantastic deal\, because once done you get free stormwater for life – as long as you keep the core inlet clear of debris.\nALL TREE\, BASIN\, AND CURB CORING ORDERS MUST BE IN BY JANUARY 1\, 2020. \nEmail Brad at brad@harvestingrainwater.com  or Omar at nativeroots.az@gmail.com to get on the list and get your tree-order form(s)\, maintenance agreements\, and checklist to ensure your site will meet the requirements of this program and the city permit.\nYou can also EMAIL US TO GET ON THE LIST FOR NEXT YEAR\n• 2021 Tree & Understory Order Form is needed for trees that are to be planted in public right-of-way. The prices of these trees have been reduced/subsidized thanks to Trees for Tucson and neighborhood nurseryman Sky Jacobs.\n• Maintenance & Stewarding Agreement must be filled out\, signed\, and handed in for every address ordering trees.\nRequirements to get the Rain and Tree Planting help of Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Foresters program:\n1. Invasive weeds must be removed from all areas you want to plant rainwater and trees BEFORE the rain and trees are planted.\n2. Must have a continuous pedestrian path minimum 5-feet wide\, cleared to a height of 7 feet\, and having an approved path surface in the public right-of-way adjoining your property.\nApproved pathway materials that maintain public access and walkability:\n• Compacted native soil. Free and already on site!\n• Screened organic material (woodchip) mulch no larger than 1/2-inch in particle size.\n(Do not apply mulch thicker than a 1-inch depth. Thicker depths bog down small wheels of babycarriages and wheelchairs).\nOne local mulch supplier is Tank’s Green Stuff.\n• Compacted or stabilized ¼ to 3/8-inch minus decomposed granite (DG).  \nThere are natural polymers that can be mixed in with the decomposed granite to better hold it together and stabilize it. DG is available from local landscape material suppliers. (Gary Wittwer\, past Landscape Architect\, City of Tucson Transportation Department told me this can be installed to be American Disabilities Act (ADA)-accessible\n• Pavers/brick\, which can be installed within the grade/slope tolerances of the ADA\n• Maintained concrete sidewalks (ADA-accessible)\nNon-approved\, non-accepted path materials that inhibit public access and walkability:\n• Loose rock or gravel\n• Decomposed granite larger than 3/8-inch in particle size\n• Course organic material (woodchip) mulch larger than 1-inch in size; or organic mulch thicker than 1-inch depth.\nNOTE: If you would like trees for planting on private property\, visit https://tucsoncleanandbeautiful.org/trees-for-tucson/ or call (520) 791-3109. Native and fruit trees are available (ideally you set up a greywater-harvesting system for these fruit trees first\, as they will require more water than native trees as well as regular watering in the hot and dry seasons). Note that the City of Tucson has a greywater-harvesting rebate covering up to half the cost of a greywater system with a rebate cap of $1\,000. \n\n\n\nDunbar Spring Neighborhood Rain Planting and Curb Coring Service flyer 2021\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nExcavating and hauling away excavated soil to create street-side basin. \n\n \n \n\n  \nBasin excavated. Checking depth of basin and planting terraces with laser level. \n\n \n \n\n  \nBeautiful rock work stabilizing basin banks and planting terraces. Local surface rock – Catalina granite – used. \n\n \n \n\n  \nDrilling 4-inch core hole to basin. \n\n  \n\nCore hole complete \n\n  \n\n  \nRain and plants planted winter 2-2019 \n\n  \n\n  \nFlourishing plants 6 months after planting 8-2019. Southeast corner 10th Avenue and 1st Street \n \n \nCurb core complete.\nReproduced with permission from Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, Volume 2\, 2nd Edition by Brad Lancaster
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/25th-annual-dunbar-spring-neighborhood-rain-tree-food-forest-planting-tucson-az/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20210723T110000
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SUMMARY:Plant the Rain to Grow Abundance - a Zoom presentation
DESCRIPTION:Note the starting times 11:00am EDT time zone in the U.S. / 6:00pm Damascus\, Syria \n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/plant-the-rain-to-grow-abundance-a-zoom-presentation/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20210925T080000
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SUMMARY:Hands-on tree care\, pruning & mulching workshop Saturday\, September 25\, 2021
DESCRIPTION:For all the info on this workshop in Tucson\, AZ \nSee: \nHands-on tree care\, pruning & mulching workshop Saturday\, September 25\, 2021
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/hands-on-tree-care-pruning-mulching-workshop-saturday-september-25-2021/
LOCATION:Dunbar Community Garden\, NW corner of 11th Ave and University Blvd\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85705\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210930
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211002
DTSTAMP:20220120T214329Z
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SUMMARY:Desert Green XXV
DESCRIPTION:The theme of the conference is ReGen: Success in a Changing World \nBrad Lancaster will be giving the following keynote presentations: \n  \nPlant Your Free On-site Waters to Grow Abundance\nBy Brad Lancaster author of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\,\nHarvestingRainwater.com \nThis presentation shows us how we can collaborate with thriving living systems watered solely by free on-site waters such as rainwater\, stormwater\, greywater\, and air-conditioning condensate. Dynamic results include passive cooling\, big savings of money and resources\, flood control\, water resiliency\, climate change mitigation\, and greater health and beauty. Best of all\, it’s about just more consciously using and re-cycling what you already have freely at hand. \n  \nRe-hydrating and Re-enlivening Our Communities with Rain-watered Neighborhood Food Forestry\nBy Brad Lancaster\, author of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\,\nHarvestingRainwater.com & NeighborhoodForesters.org \n This presentation is about efforts empowering citizens to effectively plant the rain and native food-bearing vegetation to grow vibrant and resilient abundance where they live\, work\, and play. Dramatic results include cooler neighborhoods\, healthier eating\, a revitalization of indigenous cuisine\, deeper connections with people and place\, reduced flooding\, skill building\, greater soil fertility\, and more beauty and joy. The strategies and practices are accessible to all and most are free or cost no more than the price of a shovel. \n  \nBrad will also have the new\, full-color editions of his books on hand for sale direct from him at deep discount. And Brad will be available to sign your books if desired. \n  \nFor more info\, check out the event’s website: \nhttp://www.desert-green.org/
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/desert-green-xxv/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211017
DTSTAMP:20220120T214206Z
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SUMMARY:2021 Rocky Mountain Natural Building Conference
DESCRIPTION:Brad will present\, and co-facilitate a workshop\, along with many other dynamic presenters and instructors.\nSee the event’s website\, https://natural-building-alliance.org/events/2020_rmnbc/\, for more info
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/2021-rocky-mountain-natural-building-conference/
LOCATION:Moab Art & Recreation Center\, 111 E 100 N\, Moab\, UT\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211108
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211121
DTSTAMP:20210405T000032Z
CREATED:20210405T000032Z
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SUMMARY:Water Harvesting Design Certification: Fall 2021
DESCRIPTION:November 8 and 10\, 2021 (virtual)\nNovember 15-20\, 2021 (in person)\nMore info at:\nhttps://watershedmg.org/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-fall-2021
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-fall-2021/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20211121T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20211121T110000
DTSTAMP:20220120T214030Z
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UID:25453-1637485200-1637492400@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Guided Water-Harvesting Home & Neighborhood Block Tour with Brad Lancaster – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: 9am – 11am\, Sunday\, November 21\, 2021 \nWHERE: 813 N. 9th Avenue\, Tucson\, AZ 85705 \nCOST: $10 per person. Must pay/register in advance. No-shows cannot be refunded.\nLimited number of spaces. First paid\, first served. \nEvent is sold out. \nI may give another tour in December or January – periodically check the Events page of my website for details. \n\nFor those of you who will miss the in-person tour\, see link below for a video of a tour of my place from 2016 \n\n\nCome tour with the guy who wrote the books on water harvesting and more! \nBrad Lancaster\, author of the just released\, full-color\, revised editions of his award-winning books “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, Volumes 1 and 2” will guide this tour of he and his brother’s family’s water-harvesting & landscape design award-winning 1/8th-acre urban property and surrounding block of the neighborhood. \n \n100\,000 gallons of rain and stormwater is harvested annually on the property and in the adjoining public right-of-way. You’ll see examples of: \n• an integrated “tiny house” where a one-car garage was converted into a cottage or “garottage” that passive heats and cools itself for free with well-designed winter sun access & summer shading. 75% of its building materials were salvaged from the waste stream;\n• solar cooking\, solar water heating\, and solar power;\n• legal & inexpensive site-built composting toilets\, which helped legalize such toilets state-wide;\n• organic gardens getting 95+% of their irrigation needs met by harvested rainwater;\n• inexpensive gravity-fed rainwater harvesting systems providing safe & delicious rainwater for all domestic needs including drinking – with no expensive pumps or mechanical filtration systems;\n• extensive gravity-fed greywater harvesting systems turning “waste” waters into resource waters.\n• how a joyous 20 plus-years of car-free life has been possible (cargo bicycle is key)\, and saves over $8\,000 annually \nIn the neighborhood part of the tour you’ll see:\n• water-harvesting traffic-calming features that helped turn a dangerous streets into welcoming bicycle boulevards\,\n• street-runoff harvesting strategies that use street runoff to freely irrigate street trees and control flooding – and new evolutions and improvements on these strategies\n• learn how these once “pre-legal” street runoff-harvesting strategies were legalized\, rebated\, and mandated\n• native food forests doubling as wildlife and pollinator corridors that canopy over public foot paths\,\n• how an annual neighborhood rain and tree planting effort has resulted in the planting of over 1\,500 trees and hundreds of understory plants in the neighborhood\n• how a county grant helped pay for water-harvesting strategies harvesting over 1 million gallons of annual stormwater in and along the streets\n• how a neighborhood-organized Neighborhood Foresters program is training up the neighborhood to steward these features and is implementing more.\n• public art & other strategies reclaiming the commons for more life! \n  \nJust in time for the holidays – Brad will also be selling (at deep discount) & signing copies of the just released & revised\, full-color editions of his award-winning books; and Plant the Rain t-shirts\, caps\, and stickers.\nhttps://old.www.harvestingrainwater.com/shop/
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/guided-water-harvesting-home-neighborhood-block-tour-with-brad-lancaster-tucson-az-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20220122T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20220122T160000
DTSTAMP:20220121T145432Z
CREATED:20220121T144634Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220121T145432Z
UID:25471-1642860000-1642867200@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Pruning 2.0: Hands-on overhead tree pruning workshop & overhead utility line safety - Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:See here for all the details
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/pruning-2-0-hands-on-overhead-tree-pruning-workshop-overhead-utility-line-safety-tucson-az/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20220212T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20220212T120000
DTSTAMP:20220121T150011Z
CREATED:20220121T150011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220121T150011Z
UID:25474-1644656400-1644667200@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Pruning 1.0: Hands-on pruning\, tree care\, & mulching workshop - Tucson\,AZ
DESCRIPTION:See here for all the info
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/pruning-1-0-hands-on-pruning-tree-care-mulching-workshop-tucsonaz/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20220216T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20220216T130000
DTSTAMP:20220211T155532Z
CREATED:20220211T155532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220211T155532Z
UID:25735-1645012800-1645016400@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Planting the Rain - a virtual presentation
DESCRIPTION:Available for viewing February 16th \nPresentations in the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill Spring 2022 lecture series\, Planting the Seeds for Tomorrow: The Tumamoc Resilience Garden will be available on-demand on their website starting on the date listed for each presentation. \nRegistration is not required. Clicking on the image below or this link will take you to the event website.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/planting-the-rain-a-virtual-presentation/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220228
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220313
DTSTAMP:20211122T145117Z
CREATED:20210405T000433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211122T145117Z
UID:22986-1646006400-1647129599@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Water Harvesting Design Certification - Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:February 28 and March 2\, 2022 (virtual)\nMarch 7 – 12 (in person\, in Tucson\, Arizona)\nMore info at:\nhttps://watershedmg.org/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-spring-2022
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-spring-2020/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220228
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220313
DTSTAMP:20220120T213914Z
CREATED:20220120T213914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220120T213914Z
UID:25451-1646006400-1647129599@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Water Harvesting Design Certification: Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:February 28 and March 2\, 2022 (virtual) \nMarch 7 – 12 (in person\, in Tucson\, Arizona) \nMore info at:\nhttps://watershedmg.org/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-spring-2022
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-tucson-az/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220302
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220305
DTSTAMP:20211117T181457Z
CREATED:20211117T181457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211117T181457Z
UID:24411-1646179200-1646438399@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Land and Water Summit - Albuquerque\, NM
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, March 4\, 2022 Brad will give the following presentation\, followed up with a panel discussion. \nRe-hydrating and Re-enlivening Our Communities with Rain-watered Neighborhood Food Forestry\nThis presentation is about neighborhood forestry efforts empowering citizens\, and contractors\, to effectively plant the rain and native food-bearing vegetation to grow vibrant and resilient abundance where they live\, work\, and play. Then train them up and support them with the education\, guidance\, collaborations\, and policy that enable them to better steward the plantings for decades to come. Dramatic results include cooler neighborhoods\, healthier eating\, a revitalization of indigenous cuisine\, deeper connections with people and place\, reduced flooding\, skill building\, greater soil fertility\, and more beauty and joy. The strategies and practices are accessible to all and most are free or cost no more than the price of a shovel. \nFor more details on the summit see:\nhttps://www.landandwatersummitnm.org/
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/land-and-water-summit-albuquerque-nm/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20220313T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20220313T110000
DTSTAMP:20220310T192827Z
CREATED:20211122T152933Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220310T192827Z
UID:24413-1647162000-1647169200@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Guided Water-Harvesting Home & Neighborhood Block Tour with Brad Lancaster – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: 9am – 11am\, Sunday\, March 13\, 2022 \nWHERE: 813 N. 9th Avenue\, Tucson\, AZ 85705 \nCOST: $12 per person. Must pay/register in advance. No-shows cannot be refunded.\nLimited number of spaces. First paid\, first served. \nSOLD OUT \n  \nCome tour with the guy who wrote the books on water harvesting and more! \nBrad Lancaster\, author of the just released\, full-color\, revised editions of his award-winning books “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, Volumes 1 and 2” will guide this tour of he and his brother’s family’s water-harvesting & landscape design award-winning 1/8th-acre urban property and surrounding block of the neighborhood. \n100\,000 gallons of rain and stormwater is harvested annually on the property and in the adjoining public right-of-way. You’ll see examples of: \n• an integrated “tiny house” where a one-car garage was converted into a cottage or “garottage” that passive heats and cools itself for free with well-designed winter sun access & summer shading. 75% of its building materials were salvaged from the waste stream;\n• solar cooking\, solar water heating\, and solar power;\n• legal & inexpensive site-built composting toilets\, which helped legalize such toilets state-wide;\n• organic gardens getting 95+% of their irrigation needs met by harvested rainwater;\n• inexpensive gravity-fed rainwater harvesting systems providing safe & delicious rainwater for all domestic needs including drinking – with no expensive pumps or mechanical filtration systems;\n• extensive gravity-fed greywater harvesting systems turning “waste” waters into resource waters.\n• how a joyous 20 plus-years of car-free life has been possible (cargo bicycle is key)\, and saves over $8\,000 annually \nIn the neighborhood part of the tour you’ll see:\n• water-harvesting traffic-calming features that helped turn a dangerous streets into welcoming bicycle boulevards\,\n• street-runoff harvesting strategies that use street runoff to freely irrigate street trees and control flooding – and new evolutions and improvements on these strategies\n• learn how these once “pre-legal” street runoff-harvesting strategies were legalized\, rebated\, and mandated\n• native food forests doubling as wildlife and pollinator corridors that canopy over public foot paths\,\n• how an annual neighborhood rain and tree planting effort has resulted in the planting of over 1\,500 trees and hundreds of understory plants in the neighborhood\n• how a county grant helped pay for water-harvesting strategies harvesting over 1 million gallons of annual stormwater in and along the streets\n• how a neighborhood-organized Neighborhood Foresters program is training up the neighborhood to steward these features and is implementing more.\n• public art & other strategies reclaiming the commons for more life! \n  \nBrad will also be selling (at deep discount) & signing copies of the newly released & revised\, full-color editions of his award-winning books; and Plant the Rain t-shirts\, caps\, and stickers. \nhttps://www.harvestingrainwater.com/shop/
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/guided-water-harvesting-home-neighborhood-block-tour-with-brad-lancaster-tucson-az/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond":MAILTO:bradlank@gmail.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220406
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220410
DTSTAMP:20220115T191035Z
CREATED:20220115T191035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220115T191035Z
UID:25309-1649203200-1649548799@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Conference on World Affairs\, Boulder\, Colorado
DESCRIPTION:For more information see:\nhttps://www.colorado.edu/cwa/
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/conference-on-world-affairs-boulder-colorado/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20220421T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20220421T200000
DTSTAMP:20220415T035231Z
CREATED:20220414T161351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220415T035231Z
UID:25884-1650565800-1650571200@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Sneak preview of "Water Harvester: An Invitation to Abundance" documentary\, plus tour of water-harvesting earthworks at the Tumamoc Resilience Garden
DESCRIPTION:WHERE:\nThe Boat House at the base of Tumamoc Hill\n(on the right/west side of road up the Hill\, look for stone building just after you pass the entrance gate)\n1675 W. Anklam Rd.\nTucson\, Arizona 85745 \n  \nTour of the Tumamoc Resilience Gardens led by Brad Lancaster\n6:30pm to 7pm\nThe Tumamoc Resilience Garden at the base of Tumamoc Hill east of the Shrine House (white adobe house with turquoise trim) will be an inspirational setting where our community can have hands-on participation in how to live in the desert in a hotter and drier future.\nBrad Lancaster designed the just finished passive water-harvesting earthworks that are the topographical foundation of the Garden\, and will harvest rainfall and stormwater runoff to provide free\, on-site irrigation to the garden\, help recharge our groundwater\, and control flooding and erosion on the hill and downstream.\nInstallation of the earthworks was done by Little John Excavating and Dryland Design.\nBrad will lead a 30-minute tour of these earthworks and share what is to come next. \nSee here to view a video of Brad’s presentation Planting the Seeds for Tomorrow: The Tumamoc Resilience Garden – Planting the Rain \n  \nScreening of the film “Water Harvester: An Invitation to Abundance”\n7pm to 8pm \nThe Desert Laboratory will host the screening of the new half hour documentary Water Harvester: An Invitation to Abundance by Arizona Public Media producer/director David Fenster. Be the first to see it! \nClick image below to view the trailer\n \nScreening will be followed by questions and answers with David Fenster and Brad Lancaster.\nBrad will also be on hand to sell and sign the new full-color editions of his books Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond \n  \nParking\nIt can be difficult to park right at the entrance of Tumamoc Hill so we encourage you to walk or ride a bike to the event. \nIf you drive to Tumamoc Hill\, park on the street along Anklam Road. \nDo NOT park in the parking lots of Saint Mary’s Hospital or the medical offices along Anklam Road\, as these spaces are designated for physicians and employees of the medical facilities as well as patients and their families. Please note that parking regulations are enforced in these lots.   \nIf you ride a bicycle\, please lock your bike to a metal post/bike rack at the entrance.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/first-screening-of-brad-lancaster-water-harvester-an-invitation-to-abundance-plus-tour-of-the-just-finished-water-harvesting-earthworks-at-the-tumamoc-resilience-garden/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20220917T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20220917T110000
DTSTAMP:20220908T221126Z
CREATED:20220908T221011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220908T221126Z
UID:27177-1663401600-1663412400@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Pruning 1.0: Hands-on pruning\, tree care\, & mulching workshop - Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:Join certified arborist Aleck MacKinnon and neighborhood forester Brad Lancaster in the Dunbar/Spring neighborhood in Tucson\, Arizona for this hands-on workshop. \nGet all the info HERE
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/pruning-1-0-hands-on-pruning-tree-care-mulching-workshop/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221107
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221120
DTSTAMP:20220603T220329Z
CREATED:20220603T220329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220603T220329Z
UID:26367-1667779200-1668902399@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Water Harvesting Design Certification Course - Tucson\, Arizona
DESCRIPTION:For more info on this Watershed Management Group course\, plus how to register see:\nhttps://watershedmg.org/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-fall-2022 \nBrad will teach the morning of November 15th\, and he will also offer a guided tour of his place and some of his neighborhood’s rain-irrigated native food forest work\, Sunday November 20th.\nSign up for the tour once it is posted on Brad’s Events page.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-course-tucson-arizona/
LOCATION:watershed management group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20221120T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20221120T110000
DTSTAMP:20221120T154525Z
CREATED:20221113T232804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221120T154525Z
UID:27395-1668934800-1668942000@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Guided Water-Harvesting Home & Neighborhood Block Tour with Brad Lancaster – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: 9am – 11am\, Sunday\, November 20\, 2022 \nWHERE: 813 N. 9th Avenue\, Tucson\, AZ 85705 \nCOST: $14 per person. Must pay/register in advance. No-shows cannot be refunded.\nLimited number of spaces. First paid\, first served. \nSOLD OUT \n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\nCome tour with the guy who wrote the books on water harvesting and more! \nBrad Lancaster\, author of the just released\, full-color\, revised editions of his award-winning books “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, Volumes 1 and 2” will guide this tour of he and his brother’s family’s water-harvesting & landscape design award-winning 1/8th-acre urban property and surrounding block of the neighborhood. \n100\,000 gallons of rain and stormwater is harvested annually on the property and in the adjoining public right-of-way. You’ll see examples of: \n• an integrated “tiny house” where a one-car garage was converted into a cottage or “garottage” that passive heats and cools itself for free with well-designed winter sun access & summer shading. 75% of its building materials were salvaged from the waste stream;\n• solar cooking\, solar water heating\, and solar power;\n• legal & inexpensive site-built composting toilets\, which helped legalize such toilets state-wide;\n• organic gardens getting 95+% of their irrigation needs met by harvested rainwater;\n• inexpensive gravity-fed rainwater harvesting systems providing safe & delicious rainwater for all domestic needs including drinking – with no expensive pumps or mechanical filtration systems;\n• extensive gravity-fed greywater harvesting systems turning “waste” waters into resource waters.\n• how a joyous 20 plus-years of car-free life has been possible (cargo bicycle is key)\, and saves over $8\,000 annually \nIn the neighborhood part of the tour you’ll see:\n• water-harvesting traffic-calming features that helped turn a dangerous streets into welcoming bicycle boulevards\,\n• street-runoff harvesting strategies that use street runoff to freely irrigate street trees and control flooding – and new evolutions and improvements on these strategies\n• learn how these once “pre-legal” street runoff-harvesting strategies were legalized\, rebated\, and mandated\n• native food forests doubling as wildlife and pollinator corridors that canopy over public foot paths\,\n• how an annual neighborhood rain and tree planting effort has resulted in the planting of over 1\,500 trees and hundreds of understory plants in the neighborhood\n• how a county grant helped pay for water-harvesting strategies harvesting over 1 million gallons of annual stormwater in and along the streets\n• how a neighborhood-organized Neighborhood Foresters program is training up the neighborhood to steward these features and is implementing more.\n• public art & other strategies reclaiming the commons for more life! \n  \nJust in time for the holidays\nBrad will also be selling (at deep discount) & signing copies of the newly released & revised\, full-color editions of his award-winning books; and Plant the Rain t-shirts\, caps\, and stickers. \n  \n  \nFor self-guided water tours in Tucson see: \nhttps://www.harvestingrainwater.com/tour/ \n  \n  \nHere is a video of a 2016 tour of my place (more evolutions have since occurred)…
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/guided-water-harvesting-home-neighborhood-block-tour-with-brad-lancaster-tucson-az-3/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond":MAILTO:bradlank@gmail.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221211
DTSTAMP:20221113T225238Z
CREATED:20221113T225238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221113T225238Z
UID:27393-1670198400-1670716799@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Water Harvesting Design Certification Course – Tucson\, Arizona
DESCRIPTION:For more info on this Watershed Management Group course\, plus how to register see: \nhttps://watershedmg.org/learn/training/certification \nBrad will teach the morning of December 6th\, and he may also offer a guided tour of his place and some of his neighborhood’s rain-irrigated native food forest work\, Sunday December 11th.\nSign up for the tour once it is posted on Brad’s Events page.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-course-tucson-arizona-3/
LOCATION:watershed management group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20221211T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20221211T170000
DTSTAMP:20221123T153204Z
CREATED:20221123T153204Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221123T153204Z
UID:27426-1670770800-1670778000@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Guided Water-Harvesting Home & Neighborhood Block Tour with Brad Lancaster – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: 3pm – 5pm\, Sunday\, December 11\, 2022 \nWHERE: 813 N. 9th Avenue\, Tucson\, AZ 85705 \nCOST: $14 per person. Must pay/register in advance. No-shows cannot be refunded.\nLimited number of spaces. First paid\, first served. \n  \n  \n\n\n \n\n\nNumber of participants\n\n\nOne person $14.00 USDtwo people $28.00 USDThree people $42.00 USDFour people $56.00 USD \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nCome tour with the guy who wrote the books on water harvesting and more! \nBrad Lancaster\, author of the just released\, full-color\, revised editions of his award-winning books “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, Volumes 1 and 2” will guide this tour of he and his brother’s family’s water-harvesting & landscape design award-winning 1/8th-acre urban property and surrounding block of the neighborhood. \n100\,000 gallons of rain and stormwater is harvested annually on the property and in the adjoining public right-of-way. You’ll see examples of: \n• an integrated “tiny house” where a one-car garage was converted into a cottage or “garottage” that passive heats and cools itself for free with well-designed winter sun access & summer shading. 75% of its building materials were salvaged from the waste stream;\n• solar cooking\, solar water heating\, and solar power;\n• legal & inexpensive site-built composting toilets\, which helped legalize such toilets state-wide;\n• organic gardens getting 95+% of their irrigation needs met by harvested rainwater;\n• inexpensive gravity-fed rainwater harvesting systems providing safe & delicious rainwater for all domestic needs including drinking – with no expensive pumps or mechanical filtration systems;\n• extensive gravity-fed greywater harvesting systems turning “waste” waters into resource waters.\n• how a joyous 20 plus-years of car-free life has been possible (cargo bicycle is key)\, and saves over $8\,000 annually \nIn the neighborhood part of the tour you’ll see:\n• water-harvesting traffic-calming features that helped turn a dangerous streets into welcoming bicycle boulevards\,\n• street-runoff harvesting strategies that use street runoff to freely irrigate street trees and control flooding – and new evolutions and improvements on these strategies\n• learn how these once “pre-legal” street runoff-harvesting strategies were legalized\, rebated\, and mandated\n• native food forests doubling as wildlife and pollinator corridors that canopy over public foot paths\,\n• how an annual neighborhood rain and tree planting effort has resulted in the planting of over 1\,500 trees and hundreds of understory plants in the neighborhood\n• how a county grant helped pay for water-harvesting strategies harvesting over 1 million gallons of annual stormwater in and along the streets\n• how a neighborhood-organized Neighborhood Foresters program is training up the neighborhood to steward these features and is implementing more.\n• public art & other strategies reclaiming the commons for more life! \n  \nBrad will also be selling (at deep discount) & signing copies of the newly released & revised\, full-color editions of his award-winning books; and Plant the Rain t-shirts\, caps\, and stickers. \n  \n  \nFor self-guided water tours in Tucson see: \nhttps://www.harvestingrainwater.com/tour/ \n  \n  \nHere is a video of a 2016 tour of my place (more evolutions have since occurred)…
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/guided-water-harvesting-home-neighborhood-block-tour-with-brad-lancaster-tucson-az-5/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond":MAILTO:bradlank@gmail.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20230126T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20230126T190000
DTSTAMP:20230103T222345Z
CREATED:20230103T221430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230103T222345Z
UID:27599-1674752400-1674759600@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Water Harvester: An Invitation to Abundance—free movie screening
DESCRIPTION:I’ll be at the screening along with director/producer David Fenster for a question and answer panel after the screening. \nI’ll also be signing my books Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, which will be available for purchase at the event. \n  \nTo reserve a seat at the screening go to the event website here \n  \nAnd to view the film at your leisure\, view it here. \n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/water-harvester-an-invitation-to-abundance-free-movie-screening/
LOCATION:Tohono Chul Park\, Tucson\, AZ
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20230207T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20230207T120000
DTSTAMP:20230124T214017Z
CREATED:20230124T213544Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230124T214017Z
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SUMMARY:7th Biennial Russian River-Friendly Landscaping Event
DESCRIPTION:7th Biennial Russian River-Friendly Landscaping Event\nJoin industry professionals to discuss practical practices to capture rainwater\, carbon\, and greater potential in urban landscapes. \n\nBy Russian River Watershed Association\n\n\n\nWhen:\nTue\, February 7\, 2023\, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST\n\n\nWhere:\nUtilities Field Operations 35 Stony Point Road Santa Rosa\, CALIFORNIA 95401\n\n\nMore info at:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/7th-biennial-russian-river-friendly-landscaping-event-tickets-498915759467\n\n\n\n\nDoors open at 7:30 AM  \nContinental breakfast will be provided. CEU Certificates are available upon request! \nOur Featured Speakers: \nBrad Lancaster (Keynote Speaker): Teacher\, Consultant\, Designer of regenerative systems\, and Author of the Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond book series \nObi Kaufmann: American Naturalist\, Author\, and Illustrator \nRebecca Burgess: Executive Director of Fibershed\, Board Chair of the Carbon Cycle Institute\, Author \nLocal Resources – Lightening talks \n\nIntegrating Locally Sourced Compost XINCI TAN\, ZERO WASTE SONOMA\nRussian River Rainwater Catchment Systems JESSICA POLLITZ\, SONOMA RCD\n\nWith Additional Special Guests Panel – Where the shovel meets the soil: Best Practical Practices \n\nConstruct and Maintain Garden Sink Landscapes\nBusiness Cases (Obstacles/Challenges and Opportunities to Maintaining Landscapes)
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/7th-biennial-russian-river-friendly-landscaping-event/
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SUMMARY:Water Harvesting Design Certification Course – Tucson\, Arizona
DESCRIPTION:For more info on this Watershed Management Group course\, plus how to register see:\nhttps://watershedmg.org/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-spring-2023 \nBrad will teach the morning of March 7th\, and he will also offer a guided tour of his place and some of his neighborhood’s rain-irrigated native food forest work\, Sunday March 12th.\nSign up for the tour once it is posted on Brad’s Events page.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-course-tucson-arizona-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20230311T100000
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SUMMARY:Sustainable Landscapes Expo - Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:Time:\n10am – 2pm \nLocation:\n4210 N. Campbell Ave.\, Tucson\, AZ 85705 \n  \nBrad Lancaster will give the following two dynamic one hour-long presentations at the event with questions and answers afterward: \n  \n10:30 am to 11:30 am:\nPlanting the Rain to grow regenerative abundance: Water-harvesting principles and practices \n  \nNoon to 1pm:\nRe-hydrating and Re-enlivening Our Communities with Rain- (and greywater-) watered Home & Neighborhood Food Forestry \n  \nMore info in the link below… \nhttps://pimasmartscape.arizona.edu/sustainable-landscapes-expo \n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/sustainable-landscapes-expo-tucson-az/
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SUMMARY:Guided Water-Harvesting Home & Neighborhood Block Tour with Brad Lancaster – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: 9am – 11am\, Sunday\, March 12\, 2023 \nWHERE: 813 N. 9th Avenue\, Tucson\, AZ 85705 \nCOST: $14 per person. Must pay/register in advance. No-shows cannot be refunded.\nLimited number of spaces. First paid\, first served. \n  \nSOLD OUT\nNext tours will be November 19\, 2023 and March 10\, 2024\n(Though I may schedule others\, and I usually post tours—and start taking sign ups—a month before the tour on my Events page—so keep checking back)\n \n\n  \nCome tour with the guy who wrote the books on water harvesting and more! \nBrad Lancaster\, author of the just released\, full-color\, revised editions of his award-winning books “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, Volumes 1 and 2” will guide this tour of he and his brother’s family’s water-harvesting & landscape design award-winning 1/8th-acre urban property and surrounding block of the neighborhood. \n100\,000 gallons of rain and stormwater is harvested annually on the property and in the adjoining public right-of-way. You’ll see examples of: \n• an integrated “tiny house” where a one-car garage was converted into a cottage or “garottage” that passive heats and cools itself for free with well-designed winter sun access & summer shading. 75% of its building materials were salvaged from the waste stream;\n• solar cooking\, solar water heating\, and solar power;\n• legal & inexpensive site-built composting toilets\, which helped legalize such toilets state-wide;\n• organic gardens getting 95+% of their irrigation needs met by harvested rainwater;\n• inexpensive gravity-fed rainwater harvesting systems providing safe & delicious rainwater for all domestic needs including drinking – with no expensive pumps or mechanical filtration systems;\n• extensive gravity-fed greywater harvesting systems turning “waste” waters into resource waters.\n• how a joyous 20 plus-years of car-free life has been possible (cargo bicycle is key)\, and saves over $8\,000 annually \nIn the neighborhood part of the tour you’ll see:\n• water-harvesting traffic-calming features that helped turn a dangerous streets into welcoming bicycle boulevards\,\n• street-runoff harvesting strategies that use street runoff to freely irrigate street trees and control flooding – and new evolutions and improvements on these strategies\n• learn how these once “pre-legal” street runoff-harvesting strategies were legalized\, rebated\, and mandated\n• native food forests doubling as wildlife and pollinator corridors that canopy over public foot paths\,\n• how an annual neighborhood rain and tree planting effort has resulted in the planting of over 1\,500 trees and hundreds of understory plants in the neighborhood\n• how a county grant helped pay for water-harvesting strategies harvesting over 1 million gallons of annual stormwater in and along the streets\n• how a neighborhood-organized Neighborhood Foresters program is training up the neighborhood to steward these features and is implementing more.\n• public art & other strategies reclaiming the commons for more life! \n  \nBrad will also be selling (at deep discount) & signing copies of the newly released & revised\, full-color editions of his award-winning books; and Plant the Rain t-shirts\, caps\, and stickers. \n  \n  \nFor self-guided water tours in Tucson see: \nhttps://www.harvestingrainwater.com/tour/ \n  \n  \nHere is a video of a 2016 tour of my place (more evolutions have since occurred)…
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/guided-water-harvesting-home-neighborhood-block-tour-with-brad-lancaster-tucson-az-4/
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SUMMARY:Land & Water Restoration Workshop - Buenos Aires Wildlife Refuge\, Arizona
DESCRIPTION:March 20-25\, 2023 \n  \nPlease join the Altar Valley Conservation Alliance (AVCA) and restoration experts Brad Lancaster\, Omar Ore-Giron\, and Kyle Thompson as we restore arroyos on the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge. Throughout the week\, we will: \n\nLearn about site assessment and design techniques applicable in rural and urban settings\nBuild rock & brush grade-control\, water harvesting\, & induced meandering structures (one-rock dams\, baffles\, etc.) in the Puertocito Wash\nMaintain existing structures at the Arroyo Hondo Wash using innovative rock and brush techniques\nConduct monitoring of stream morphology and vegetation\nWork in a system where roads\, tanks\, and arroyos are modified together to harvest rainwater\n\nPractitioners and volunteers are welcome for this free workshop any and all days from March 20-25. Camping is available on the Refuge. \n  \nHands-on land & water restoration workshop in Buenos Aires Wildlife Refuge – SW Arizona \nThis is a great opportunity to get some hands-on experience with placement\, design\, and construction of water-harvesting erosion control and induced meandering structures in different sized arroyos to reconnect these downcut waterways with their floodplains for greater water spread and rehydration. In addition\, we’ll cover rolling dips—a strategy that diverts water off dirt roads where the water can do maximum good in the adjoining landscape. \nThese strategies work great in BOTH the urban and rural setting. If you aren’t familiar with them\, here is your opportunity to change that. Every water harvesting practitioner should know when and where to use these structures and how to effectively hybridize them when appropriate. \n  \nTo see similar projects in Altar Valley\, along with before and after photos see here. \n  \nFor more information\, please contact Julia Guglielmo\, AVCA Conservation & Science Director\, at julia@altarvalleyconservation.org. \nMore info & to register see link below \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/buenos-aires-national-wildlife-refuge-restoration-workshop-tickets-554283796757
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/land-water-restoration-workshop-buenos-aires-wildlife-refuge-arizona/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20230429T070000
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SUMMARY:Hands-on cholla bud harvesting\, processing\, eating\, & planting workshop - Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:The cholla cactus flower buds just started blooming in our neighborhood this week\, so its time to harvest some (but not all)! \nCome join us as we harvest cholla flower buds from neighborhood-grown staghorn cholla cactus\, then process and enjoy the delicious bounty. \n  \nGet all the details here
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/hands-on-cholla-bud-harvesting-processing-feasting-planting-workshop-tucson-az/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20230629T190000
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SUMMARY:Cool Boulder: Planting Rain - An Evening with Brad Lancaster\, Pioneer in Resilient Landscapes - Boulder\, Colorado
DESCRIPTION:What: Cool Boulder is excited to offer you an evening with rainwater planting pioneer\, Brad Lancaster\, sharing stories and inspirational examples of how planting rain could help create landscapes and communities that are resilient to climate change\, as well as healthier and happier places to live! \n\n\nBrad Lancaster has worked with communities all over the world to bring both indigenous and traditional knowledge of rainwater planting together with contemporary approaches and technologies that enable us to live and thrive on the water that comes to us for free from the sky. He will share stories from his experiences with these different places and cultures. \n\n\nRecognizing that Colorado’s future climate will much more closely resemble places like New Mexico\, we need to learn from those who have already been adapting to a limited ground/surface water future. Brad will share the emerging lessons and best practices that are reshaping both the way we approach infrastructure development and water policy\, both in his native home of Tucson\, AZ (average rainfall 10-12”/yr) and elsewhere. Learn about specific approaches being taken in other communities and examples of household and community projects that are easily implemented at both levels. \n\n\nGet a chance to meet others in the community who are interested in exploring these new approaches to rainwater planting! \n\n\nThis event is free\, but you must register on this Eventbrite page to attend in-person. A livestream and recording will be available as well. (more details below) \n\n\n\n\nWhen: Thursday\, June 29th; 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. \n\n\nWhere: Boulder JCC\, Levin Hall; 6007 Oreg Avenue\, Boulder\, CO\, 80303 \n\n\nImportant Details: \n\n\nInformal reception prior to presentation with hors d’oeuvers and non-alcoholic beverages\, a presentation from Brad Lancaster followed by a Q&A session and an opportunity to have Brad sign copies of his books “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond” Vols 1-3! \n\n\nThis event is free\, but you must register on this Eventbrite page to attend in-person. \n\n\nDue to space limitations\, if you register for the event but can no longer attend\, please unregister so that someone else can sign up and enjoy this opportunity. Thank you! \n\n\nIf you are not able to attend in-person\, or are not available on the evening of Thursday\, June 29th\, this event will also be livestreamed and recorded and will be hosted on the Cool Boulder website. More details to come\, so stay tuned at www.coolboulder.org! \n\n\n\n\nIf you are interested in learning more about planting rain\, Brad’s innovating work and the techniques he has developed\, check out the following resources: \n\n\nBrad has literally written the book on rainwater harvesting practices! \n\n\nA short movie was recently made about Brad\, called\, “Water Harvester: An Invitation to Abundance“\, which shows some of the amazing transformations he’s helped create. \n\n\nHe has also done a number of great talks\, including this Ted Talk from a few years ago. \n\n\n  \nALSO check out the two follow up workshops on July 1st \nCool Boulder: A Two-Part Workshop with specialist\, Brad Lancaster\, on Planting Rain and Growing Absorbent Landscapes \n \n  \nhttps://www.coolboulder.org/cool-boulder-partners-events/planting-rain-with-pioneer-brad-lancaster
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/cool-boulder-planting-rain-an-evening-with-brad-lancaster-pioneer-in-resilient-landscapes-boulder-colorado/
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