Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond by Brad Lancaster

Brad Lancaster: Parkway Gardens Hands-on Workshop, November 3, 2013 — Studio City CA
2013-11-03 13:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Parkway Gardens Hands-on Workshop
Organized by The River Project & Water LA
That no-man’s land between the sidewalk & the street can take a good deal of labor & water to maintain! We’ll show you how you can transform it into a low-maintenance, low-water oasis.
Capture, conserve, & reuse the rain & runoff that usually flows past your property & out to the ocean!
Date: Sunday, November 3, 2013
Time: 1–4 pm
Cost: Free (as long as you’re willing to lend a hand)
General location: Rhodes Avenue & Valley Spring Lane, Studio City
*Please RSVP via Eventbrite for exact address*
Snacks & beverages provided, everyone welcome!

Brad Lancaster: Keynote Speaker at WESTCAS Fall Conference, October 31, 2013 — Tucson AZ
2013-10-31 12:00 - 2013-11-02 13:30
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WESTCAS 2013 FALL CONFERENCE:
Sharing Insights and Opportunities—Has the Arid West Drawn the ‘Shortage Straw’?

October 30 – November 1, 2013
Westward Look Resort
245 E Ina Rd
Tucson AZ 85704
Brad will be delivering the daily keynote on Thursday, October 31, from 12 noon to 1:30 pm.
Click here to download the conference brochure, with general information, conference agenda, and registration materials.
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Who is WESTCAS?
The Arid West has a unique ecosystem. Many months have no rain, and annual precipitation often is less than 12 inches. Consequently, it is essential to protect both the quantity and quality of water supplies. To this end, in 1992 the area’s water and wastewater providers joined together to share their talents and resources, assuming the name Western Coalition of Arid States, or WESTCAS. A grassroots organization, WESTCAS is dedicated to encouraging the development of water programs and regulations which assure adequate supplies of high quality water for those living in the arid regions while protecting the environment.
What does WESTCAS offer?
WESTCAS provides members with a powerful presence in Washington, D.C. and in regional and state regulatory and legislative decision-making; an effective vehicle for information exchange through meetings and publications; the opportunity to help draft federal, regional, state, and local legislation and regulations about water quality and supply.
Who should belong to WESTCAS?
Water and wastewater service providers, including cities and towns, water and irrigation districts, wastewater agencies, Native American nations, and others concerned with management of issues related to water and wastewater supply, such as attorneys, engineering firms, and consulting firms.

Brad Lancaster: Free Public Talk, Free Sun- & Shade-Harvesting Strategies for Passive Heating, Cooling, Lighting, & Power, October 17, 2013 — Tucson AZ
2013-10-17 18:30 - 20:00
Who: Brad Lancaster, in conjunction with Watershed Management Group & hosted by the Jewish Community Center
What: Free public talk on Free Sun- & Shade-Harvesting Strategies for Passive Heating, Cooling, Lighting, & Power
Brad’s books, including the new 2nd edition of Volume 1, will be available for sale & signing after the talk.
Date: Thursday, October 17, 2013
Time: 6:30 – 8 pm
RSVP: Here
Location:
Jewish Community Center
3800 E River Rd, Tucson AZ 85718
(520) 299-3000
FMI:
Tory Syracuse | Associate Director | Watershed Management Group
Email: tsyracuse@watershedmg.org
Office: 520-396-3266, ext. 6
Cell: 520-820-9483

Watershed Management Group, with Brad Lancaster: Water-Harvesting Certification Course, October 7–13, 2013, & March 17–23, 2014 — Tucson AZ
2013-10-07 - 2013-10-13
Brad will be one of several instructors for this classic WMG course.
When:
October 7–13, 2013
March 17–23, 2014
Early registration ends August 16, 2013 for the October 2013 course, and January 24, 2014, for the March 2014 course

Description:
The WMG Water-Harvesting Certification program is designed for professionals, educators, and community organizers seeking comprehensive instruction in water-harvesting systems design and construction. The program offers a unique combination of hands-on and classroom instruction, providing participants with a thorough, on-the-ground understanding of the core practices in this increasingly popular field. Our program provides the highest quality and greatest depth of training in integrative water harvesting offered in the nation.
The course teaches site assessment, design, and installation of:

Greywater systems, gravity-based
Rainwater harvesting landscapes
Roof-top rainwater catchment (cisterns)

The course educational sessions includes:

Lectures on each major topic
Hands-on assessments at the sites where projects will be implemented
Training workshops where participants learn by constructing water harvesting systems at public, residential, or commercial sites
Reading and homework assignments to solidify knowledge gained in the hands-on workshops
Final exam to earn certification

Click here to register for the OCTOBER 2013 course
Click here to register for the MARCH 2014 course

Contact:
Phone: 520-396-3266
Email: tech-trainings@watershedmg.org
Course Fee:

Regular Registration
$ 1,100.00

WMG Training Alumni and Students
$ 1,050.00

Partial Payment Installments (1st payment)
$ 400.00

Brad Lancaster: Public Talk: Integrated Local Harvests, October 3, 2013 — Sedona AZ
2013-10-03 19:00 - 20:30
Please join Ecosa Institute (a sponsored program of Prescott College) and Keep Sedona Beautiful in welcoming Brad Lancaster to Sedona!
Brad will being presenting his newest talk, Integrated Local Harvests, and will have copies of his books available for sale and signing, including the new 2nd edition of Volume 1, Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands & Beyond: Guiding Principles.
Date: Thursday, October 3, 2013
Time: 7 pm
Venue: Keep Sedona Beautiful, 360 Brewer Rd., Sedona
Donations will be greatly appreciated!
The talk:
Integrated Local Harvests:
Simple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Abundance of Your Home, Community, and the Larger World
This dynamic presentation shares patterns and strategies to harvest, integrate, and enhance free local resources—such as rain-, grey-, and stormwaters; sun, wind, and shade; and soil fertility, wild foods, and community fun—in a way that generates far more potential than the sum of their parts. Scarcity is re-visioned into abundance simply through creative cycling and utilization of what is already at hand. Costly and consuming habits and infrastructure, disconnected from their surroundings, are reoriented and reconnected to maximize enriching opportunities.
You’ll see many examples of such transformation, including how once-dying wetlands and creek flows are being regenerated with simple hand-built structures made of on-site materials; how ancient sun- and shade-harvesting sites are informing passively heated, cooled, and powered modern homes and retrofits; and how once-blighted, overheated neighborhood streets are being rejuvenated into thriving greenbelts of water, people, wildlife, art, food, and celebration by planting once-drained stormwater, seed, and yard prunings.
This talk is both an invitation for you to engage and partner with your natural surroundings and community, and a treasure map showing you the way—by planting the rain, dancing with the sun, growing shade, feeding the soil, sailing with the wind, and living as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!
The Book:
Turn water scarcity into water abundance! Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition, is the best-selling, award-winning guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-, sun-, wind-, and shade-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional plan specific to your site and needs.
Clearly written with more than 280 illustrations, this volume helps bring your site to life; reduce your cost of living; endow you with skills of self-reliance; and create community-building, living, air-conditioning vegetation that grows beauty, food, and wildlife habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain, sun, wind, and shade into their life and landscape will invite you to do the same!

Brad Lancaster, Guest Instructor with Wayne Weiseman: Water & Earthworks 4-Day Intensive, September 26–29, 2013 — Fountain City WI
2013-09-26 - 2013-09-29
WATER & EARTHWORKS 4-DAY INTENSIVE COURSE
(shortened from previous 9-day format)
September 26–29, 2013
Kinstone Academy of Applied Permaculture
Fountain City, Wisconsin
The Course Basics:
We will learn how to read slope and how water moves by gravity. We will discuss what the hydrological cycle is and its importance in the great web of life. We will learn how to capture water with dams and swales, how to recharge groundwater systems, how to move earth in order to construct earthworks such as ponds, lakes and dams, how to identify the keyline in a landscape, how to assess and construct wetlands for water purification, what kind of vegetation helps to purify water, what to plant in and near swales, ponds, and lakes, how to utilize gray water in orchards and fields, and when the use of septic, leach fields and wells are appropriate. Most of all we will learn that all water used in the landscape and for personal use can be purified and recycled for further use. Water rights and usage are becoming a major issue in the world today: what are these current issues?
Brad Lancaster, an expert in rainwater harvesting and water management approaches, is a guest instructor for 2 days of this course.
For more information and to register:
kinstonecircle.com/1317/water-and-earthworks/

Brad Lancaster: Water Harvesting & Integrated Design Course, September 13–16, 2013—Castellana Grotte (BA), Italy
2013-09-13 - 2013-09-16
September 13–16, 2013
Brad will be teaching in English with translation into Italian. The course is planned to include classroom instruction in water harvesting and integrated design, as well as hands-on work with earthworks and greywater.
For all course details, including costs, registration, site details, and lodging, contact Patrizia Mastroleo of hosting organization Masseria Atipica.

Brad Lancaster: Local Integrated Harvests Talk & Book-Signing, September 7, 2013 — South Tucson AZ
2013-09-07 12:00 - 13:30
Brad will give his newest water-harvesting and integrated-design talk, as well as having his new Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd edition, on hand to sell & sign.
Where:
Sam Lena–South Tucson Branch of Pima County Library
1607 S 6th Ave
Tucson, AZ 85713
(520) 594-5265 (main number)
When:
Saturday, September 7, 2013
12 noon–1:30 pm
Cost: Free
FMI:
Jon Meade, Library Associate
jon.meade@pima.gov
(520) 594-5267
The Talk:
Integrated Local Harvests:
Simple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Abundance of Your Home, Community, and the Larger World
This dynamic presentation shares patterns and strategies to harvest, integrate, and enhance free local resources—such as rain-, grey-, and stormwaters; sun, wind, and shade; and soil fertility, wild foods, and community fun—in a way that generates far more potential than the sum of their parts. Scarcity is re-visioned into abundance simply through creative cycling and utilization of what is already at hand. Costly and consuming habits and infrastructure, disconnected from their surroundings, are reoriented and reconnected to maximize enriching opportunities.
You’ll see many examples of such transformation, including how once-dying wetlands and creek flows are being regenerated with simple hand-built structures made of on-site materials; how ancient sun- and shade-harvesting sites are informing passively heated, cooled, and powered modern homes and retrofits; and how once-blighted, overheated neighborhood streets are being rejuvenated into thriving greenbelts of water, people, wildlife, art, food, and celebration by planting once-drained stormwater, seed, and yard prunings.
This talk is both an invitation for you to engage and partner with your natural surroundings and community, and a treasure map showing you the way—by planting the rain, dancing with the sun, growing shade, feeding the soil, sailing with the wind, and living as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!
The Book:
Turn water scarcity into water abundance! Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition, is the best-selling, award-winning guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-, sun-, wind-, and shade-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional plan specific to your site and needs.
Clearly written with more than 280 illustrations, this volume helps bring your site to life; reduce your cost of living; endow you with skills of self-reliance; and create community-building, living, air-conditioning vegetation that grows beauty, food, and wildlife habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain, sun, wind, and shade into their life and landscape will invite you to do the same!

Brad Lancaster: Local Integrated Harvests Talk & Book-Signing at Western National Parks Association, September 4, 2013 — Oro Valley AZ
2013-09-04 12:00 - 13:30
Brad will give his newest water-harvesting and integrated-design talk, as well as having his new Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd edition, on hand to sell & sign.

Where:
Western National Parks Association Store
12880 N Vistoso Village Drive
Tucson, AZ 85755
(Oro Valley)
When:
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
noon–1:30 pm &
2–3:30 pm
(same talk both times)
Cost:
Free
FMI:
Susan Cross, Education & Outreach Manager
susan@wnpa.org
(520) 789-7405
The Talk:
Integrated Local Harvests:
Simple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Abundance of Your Home, Community, and the Larger World
This dynamic presentation shares patterns and strategies to harvest, integrate, and enhance free local resources—such as rain-, grey-, and stormwaters; sun, wind, and shade; and soil fertility, wild foods, and community fun—in a way that generates far more potential than the sum of their parts. Scarcity is re-visioned into abundance simply through creative cycling and utilization of what is already at hand. Costly and consuming habits and infrastructure, disconnected from their surroundings, are reoriented and reconnected to maximize enriching opportunities.
You’ll see many examples of such transformation, including how once-dying wetlands and creek flows are being regenerated with simple hand-built structures made of on-site materials; how ancient sun- and shade-harvesting sites are informing passively heated, cooled, and powered modern homes and retrofits; and how once-blighted, overheated neighborhood streets are being rejuvenated into thriving greenbelts of water, people, wildlife, art, food, and celebration by planting once-drained stormwater, seed, and yard prunings.
This talk is both an invitation for you to engage and partner with your natural surroundings and community, and a treasure map showing you the way—by planting the rain, dancing with the sun, growing shade, feeding the soil, sailing with the wind, and living as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!
The Book:
Turn water scarcity into water abundance! Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition, is the best-selling, award-winning guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-, sun-, wind-, and shade-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional plan specific to your site and needs.
Clearly written with more than 280 illustrations, this volume helps bring your site to life; reduce your cost of living; endow you with skills of self-reliance; and create community-building, living, air-conditioning vegetation that grows beauty, food, and wildlife habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain, sun, wind, and shade into their life and landscape will invite you to do the same!

Brad Lancaster: Local Integrated Harvests Talk & Book-Signing, August 31, 2013 — Green Valley AZ
2013-08-31 14:00 - 15:30
Brad will give his newest water-harvesting and integrated-design talk, as well as having his new Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd edition, on hand to sell & sign.
Where:
Joyner-Green Valley Branch of Pima County Library
601 N La Cañada Drive
Green Valley, AZ 85614
When:
Saturday afternoon, August 31, 2013
2–3:30 pm
Cost: Free
FMI:
Robin Green, Librarian
robin.green@pima.gov
(520) 594-5295
The Talk:
Integrated Local Harvests:
Simple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Abundance of Your Home, Community, and the Larger World
This dynamic presentation shares patterns and strategies to harvest, integrate, and enhance free local resources—such as rain-, grey-, and stormwaters; sun, wind, and shade; and soil fertility, wild foods, and community fun—in a way that generates far more potential than the sum of their parts. Scarcity is re-visioned into abundance simply through creative cycling and utilization of what is already at hand. Costly and consuming habits and infrastructure, disconnected from their surroundings, are reoriented and reconnected to maximize enriching opportunities.
You’ll see many examples of such transformation, including how once-dying wetlands and creek flows are being regenerated with simple hand-built structures made of on-site materials; how ancient sun- and shade-harvesting sites are informing passively heated, cooled, and powered modern homes and retrofits; and how once-blighted, overheated neighborhood streets are being rejuvenated into thriving greenbelts of water, people, wildlife, art, food, and celebration by planting once-drained stormwater, seed, and yard prunings.
This talk is both an invitation for you to engage and partner with your natural surroundings and community, and a treasure map showing you the way—by planting the rain, dancing with the sun, growing shade, feeding the soil, sailing with the wind, and living as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!
The Book:
Turn water scarcity into water abundance! Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition, is the best-selling, award-winning guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-, sun-, wind-, and shade-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional plan specific to your site and needs.
Clearly written with more than 280 illustrations, this volume helps bring your site to life; reduce your cost of living; endow you with skills of self-reliance; and create community-building, living, air-conditioning vegetation that grows beauty, food, and wildlife habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain, sun, wind, and shade into their life and landscape will invite you to do the same!

Brad Lancaster: "Integrated Local Harvests" Public Talk & Book-Signing, August 24, 2013 — Santa Fe NM
2013-08-24 18:30 - 21:00
Saturday, August 24, 2013

Starting at 4:30 pm, there will be info tables set up outside the entrance to encourage informal conversations and networking with people and organizations (not including Brad) promoting local water, local food, and sustainable neighborhoods.
Indoor seating will begin at 6 pm
Starting at 6:30 pm, local groups sponsoring the event will present brief introductions to their work. Current sponsors are Carbon Economy, Sustainable Santa Fe, and Homegrown NM.
Brad will begin his talk at 7 pm. The talk will be ASL-interpreted.
Brad’s books—including the new & expanded 2nd edition of Volume 1, will be available after his talk for sale and signing.
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James A. Little Theater
New Mexico School for the Deaf
1060 Cerrillos Road
Santa Fe, NM 87505
(505) 827-6760
Suggested donation: $5–$10 (no one turned away)
To prepay, go to: bradlancaster.eventbrite.com
Click to download the flyer.
BRAD’S TALK:
Integrated Local Harvests:
Simple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Abundance of Your Home, Community, and the Larger World
This dynamic presentation shares patterns and strategies to harvest, integrate, and enhance free local resources—such as rain-, grey-, and stormwaters; sun, wind, and shade; and soil fertility, wild foods, and community fun—in a way that generates far more potential than the sum of their parts. Scarcity is re-visioned into abundance simply through creative cycling and utilization of what is already at hand. Costly and consuming habits and infrastructure, disconnected from their surroundings, are reoriented and reconnected to maximize enriching opportunities.
You’ll see many examples of such transformation, including how once-dying wetlands and creek flows are being regenerated with simple hand-built structures made of on-site materials; how ancient sun- and shade-harvesting sites are informing passively heated, cooled, and powered modern homes and retrofits; and how once-blighted, overheated neighborhood streets are being rejuvenated into thriving greenbelts of water, people, wildlife, art, food, and celebration by planting once-drained stormwater, seed, and yard prunings.
This talk is both an invitation for you to engage and partner with your natural surroundings and community, and a treasure map showing you the way—by planting the rain, dancing with the sun, growing shade, feeding the soil, sailing with the wind, and living as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!
FMI about the event: Contact homegrownewmexico.org, or call (505) 473-1403 or (505) 216-0675
BRAD’S BOOK:
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands & Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition
Turn water scarcity into water abundance! Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition, is the best-selling, award-winning guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-, sun-, wind-, and shade-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional plan specific to your site and needs.
Clearly written with more than 280 illustrations, this volume helps bring your site to life; reduce your cost of living; endow you with skills of self-reliance; and create community-building, living, air-conditioning vegetation that grows beauty, food, and wildlife habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain, sun, wind, and shade into their life and landscape will invite you to do the same!

Brad Lancaster: Woodbine Ecology Center Water-Harvesting Workshop, August 17–19, 2013 — Sedalia CO
2013-08-17 - 2013-08-19
Plant the Rain
Water-Harvesting Earthworks & Greywater Workshop with Brad Lancaster
Woodbine Ecology Center
Sedalia, CO
August 17–19, 2013

Full 3-Day Water-Harvesting Course: $425
Early-Bird Discounted Price (by July 15): $375

1-Day Greywater-only Option (August 19): $175
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EARTHWORKS: How to Plant the Rain (and Other On-site Waters) to Grow Sustainable Abundance
In order to better see the whole and our place within the hydrologic cycle, each earthworkshop begins with participants learning the Water-Harvesting Principles; basic watergy facts; integration of sun, water, and community; oasis zones; how to think like a plant; and various earthworks strategies. We then assess the site, identifying water resources and watersheds, asking and answering relevant site-specific questions, and testing our observations with simple tools. Equipped with a deeper understanding of the site and its water, we then place and create water-harvesting earthworks, guided by the Principles, key integration techniques, and the goal of living within the site’s sustainable water budget. Depending on the site, typical earthworks created in an workshop can include infiltration basins/rain gardens, one-rock check dams, contour berm ‘n basins/swales or boomerang berm ‘n basins, and terracing. Time and resources permitting, we will plant guilds of vegetation within/beside the earthworks and view a presentation of earthworks from around the world.
GREYWATER Assessment and Harvesting Class
This class begins with Brad’s greywater-harvesting presentation, followed by a hands-on site assessment of greywater-harvesting potential, analyzing the accessibility, quality, and volume of greywater that can be harvested on the site. The assessment will include how to make and use a simple, effective, cheap water level that can be used in creating all water-harvesting earthworks. Simple calculations and a soil percolation test will be used to determine the size of greywater-harvesting earthworks so they work, don’t flood, and don’t puddle. The session will wrap up with determining what plants can be planted in balance with the harvested greywater, so that, once established, the plants will thrive, irrigated only by harvested greywater and rainwater—no potable municipal or well water.
REGISTER HERE
Brad’s Plant the Rain course to be followed by Eric Toensmeier‘s 6-day course, Garden Like a Forest (August 23–28).
Register for both full courses by July 15 and save $175.

Brad Lancaster: Public Talk & Book Signing: Integrated Local Harvests, August 16, 2013 — Sedalia CO
2013-08-16
Brad will give a public talk and have his new Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd edition, on hand to sell & sign.
Where:
Woodbine Ecology Center, Sedalia CO
When:
Friday evening, August 16, 2013
Time TBA
More details to come…
The Talk:
Integrated Local Harvests:
Simple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Abundance of Your Home, Community, and the Larger World
This dynamic presentation shares patterns and strategies to harvest, integrate, and enhance free local resources—such as rain-, grey-, and stormwaters; sun, wind, and shade; and soil fertility, wild foods, and community fun—in a way that generates far more potential than the sum of their parts. Scarcity is re-visioned into abundance simply through creative cycling and utilization of what is already at hand. Costly and consuming habits and infrastructure, disconnected from their surroundings, are reoriented and reconnected to maximize enriching opportunities.
You’ll see many examples of such transformation, including how once-dying wetlands and creek flows are being regenerated with simple hand-built structures made of on-site materials; how ancient sun- and shade-harvesting sites are informing passively heated, cooled, and powered modern homes and retrofits; and how once-blighted, overheated neighborhood streets are being rejuvenated into thriving greenbelts of water, people, wildlife, art, food, and celebration by planting once-drained stormwater, seed, and yard prunings.
This talk is both an invitation for you to engage and partner with your natural surroundings and community, and a treasure map showing you the way—by planting the rain, dancing with the sun, growing shade, feeding the soil, sailing with the wind, and living as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!
The Book:
Turn water scarcity into water abundance! Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition, is the best-selling, award-winning guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-, sun-, wind-, and shade-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional plan specific to your site and needs.
Clearly written with more than 280 illustrations, this volume helps bring your site to life; reduce your cost of living; endow you with skills of self-reliance; and create community-building, living, air-conditioning vegetation that grows beauty, food, and wildlife habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain, sun, wind, and shade into their life and landscape will invite you to do the same!

Watershed Management Group & Brad Lancaster: WMG Co-op Potluck & Talk and Book-Signing with Brad, August 1, 2013 — Tucson AZ
2013-08-01 17:30 - 20:00
Join WMG on August 1 for their Co-op potluck & a talk and book signing with Brad!

Thursday, August 1, 2013
5:30–6:30 p.m. Co-op Potluck
6:30–8 p.m. Brad’s Talk
Habitat for Humanity Community Room
3501 N Mountain Ave
Tucson
Watershed Management Group’s Tucson Co-op is joining forces with Brad for WMG’s summer Co-op Potluck and Speaker event. Brad just released the long-awaited new edition of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, and invites you to celebrate the occasion with him!
Brad’s talk, Integrated Local Harvests: Simple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Abundance of Your Home, Community, and the Larger World, will explore strategies to harvest, integrate, and enhance free local resources—such as rain-, grey-, and stormwater; sun, wind, and shade; and soil fertility, wild foods, and community fun—in a way that generates far more potential than the sum of their parts.
You’re welcome to arrive early for the local-foods potluck, or just come for the talk. For more information, and to register for the event, click here.

Brad Lancaster: Free Public Talk, Book Release & Water-Harvesting Demo, July 27, 2013 — Tucson AZ
2013-07-27 11:00 - 13:00
Brad has dedicated much of the past two years to the updating and expansion of the 2nd edition of Volume 1 of his Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands & Beyond book series.
Now that it’s finished, he invites all Tucsonans and visitors to the desert to come help him celebrate its completion and release, hear his latest talk that reflects the new & classic content of this new edition—integrated design; guiding principles to harvest free resources such as water, wind, sun, shade, and community; what the water-energy-carbon nexus is and what it has to do with you—and see a simple but epiphany-inspiring demonstration outside on the plaza on the core whys and hows of water harvesting. Copies of the new edition will be available for sale & signing!
Brad’s hope is that you’ll walk away afterwards with new ideas and inspiration to simultaneously enhance the vibrant quality of all our lives, our community, our economy, and our environment!
WHEN:
Saturday, July 27, 2013
11 am – 1 pm
WHERE:
Pima County Public Library
Main Downtown Branch
101 N Stone Ave
Tucson AZ 85701
COST:
Free!
DETAILS ABOUT BRAD’S TALK
Integrated Local Harvests: Simple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Abundance of Your Home, Community, and the Larger World
This dynamic presentation shares patterns and strategies to harvest, integrate, and enhance free local resources—such as rain-, grey-, and stormwaters; sun, wind, and shade; and soil fertility, wild foods, and community fun—in a way that generates far more potential than the sum of their parts. Scarcity is re-visioned into abundance simply through creative cycling and utilization of what is already at hand. Costly and consuming habits and infrastructure, disconnected from their surroundings, are reoriented and reconnected to maximize enriching opportunities.
You’ll see many examples of such transformation, including how once-dying wetlands and creek flows are being regenerated with simple hand-built structures made of on-site materials; how ancient sun- and shade-harvesting sites are informing passively heated, cooled, and powered modern homes and retrofits; and how once-blighted, overheated neighborhood streets are being rejuvenated into thriving greenbelts of water, people, wildlife, art, food, and celebration by planting once-drained stormwater, seed, and yard prunings.
This talk is both an invitation for you to engage and partner with your natural surroundings and community, and a treasure map showing you the way—by planting the rain, dancing with the sun, growing shade, feeding the soil, sailing with the wind, and living as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!
I will cover all the above and more in an entertaining and informative way. I’ll show folks myriad ways we can simultaneously enhance the quality of all our lives, our community, our economy, and our environment. I’ll show folks how we can all enhance more vibrant life.
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT HIS BOOK
“This book’s simple techniques (and the principles behind them) can help you save bunches of money, and make the landscape around you more productive and beautiful, with less work and upkeep than you can imagine.”
—Kevin Dahl, former Executive Director of Native Seeds/SEARCH and author of Native Harvest: Gardening with Authentic Southwestern Crops
“This wonderful book overflows with effective ways to beneficially cycle and enhance local water supplies, while maximizing free power from the sun.”
—Sandra Postel, founding director, Global Water Policy Project; Freshwater Fellow of the National Geographic Society
“This is an important book about using rainfall as the primary driver in creating and restoring landscapes for agriculture and communities. It is ecological design at its best.”
—John Todd, Ph.D., Research Professor and Distinguished Lecturer; President, Ocean Arks International

Brad Lancaster: San Diego Sustainable Living Institute Hands-on Earthworks & Greywater Workshop, June 29–30, 2013 — Lakeside CA
2013-06-29 - 2013-06-30
Join Brad and the San Diego Sustainable Living Institute for this hands-on water-harvesting workshop!

WHEN:
June 29–30, 2013
9 am – 5 pm each day
WHERE:
Blue Sky Ranch
Lakeside, California
HOW MUCH:
$350 for both days
$200 for one day only
WHAT:
This 2-day workshop will teach people how to plant water back in the landscape to create abundant gardens that not only provide food, but also shade, habitat, community, and more—using rainwater and greywater! When most people think about rainwater harvesting, the first thing that comes to mind is usually a barrel or a tank. However, there is a far cheaper, more widely applicable, and larger storage capacity method for harvesting rainwater: passive rain gardens or earthworks. A rain garden or earthwork is a term for sculpting the landscape to direct rainwater to where you need it and away from where you do not. These rain gardens then fill up and accumulate water every time it rains. There is no need to mess with hoses, plumbing parts, or expensive pumps. Just stand back and watch rainwater runoff walkways, driveways, patios, and other hardscapes right to where you need it. In this way you can double or even triple the amount of water that your plants would naturally receive and eliminate erosion at the same time!
Combining seasonal rainwater harvesting with year round perennial household greywater ensures that our gardens and landscapes are hydrated and water abundant. The greywater portion of the workshop will train people on how to best use greywater with the least amount of effort, materials, and energy. Greywater is any water generated from a shower, tub, washing machine, or sink that is re-used again for irrigation or other uses. Brad will show you how to design and install a simple, gravity fed greywater system from start to finish.
In this workshop, participants will learn everything they need to start harvesting rainwater and greywater. It will be a great opportunity for those with previous experience in Permaculture to take their knowledge to the next level, in addition to providing an excellent foundation to those just starting out. There will be a mix of theory and plenty of hands-on applications as all participants will assess the site and then install passive rainwater and greywater systems.
FMI: sdsustainable.org/event/rainwater-harvesting-earthworks

Brad Lancaster: Book Signing & Public Talk: Integrated Local Harvests, June 28, 2013 — San Diego CA
2013-06-28 18:30 - 20:00
Thanks to Josh Robinson of San Diego Sustainable Living Institute for making this free public talk possible!
WHEN:
Friday evening, June 28
6:30–8 pm
WHERE:
County of San Diego’s Chambers Room
5520 Overland Avenue, San Diego CA 92123
Park in the parking structure off of Farnum, and from the elevator walk west past the cafeteria and turn to the right. Chambers Room is on the right.
FMI:
Contact SDSLI at info@sdsustainable.org

ABOUT THE NEW, EXPANDED EDITION OF VOLUME 1—AVAILABLE FOR SALE & SIGNING:
Turn water scarcity into water abundance! Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition, is the best-selling, award-winning guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-, sun-, wind-, and shade-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional plan specific to your site and needs.
Clearly written with more than 280 illustrations, this volume helps bring your site to life; reduce your cost of living; endow you with skills of self-reliance; and create community-building, living, air-conditioning vegetation that grows beauty, food, and wildlife habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain, sun, wind, and shade into their life and landscape will invite you to do the same!
ABOUT THE TALK:
Integrated Local Harvests:
Simple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Abundance of Your Home, Community, and the Larger World
This dynamic presentation shares patterns and strategies to harvest, integrate, and enhance free local resources—such as rain-, grey-, and stormwaters; sun, wind, and shade; and soil fertility, wild foods, and community fun—in a way that generates far more potential than the sum of their parts. Scarcity is re-visioned into abundance simply through creative cycling and utilization of what is already at hand. Costly and consuming habits and infrastructure, disconnected from their surroundings, are reoriented and reconnected to maximize enriching opportunities.
You’ll see many examples of such transformation, including how once-dying wetlands and creek flows are being regenerated with simple hand-built structures made of on-site materials; how ancient sun- and shade-harvesting sites are informing passively heated, cooled, and powered modern homes and retrofits; and how once-blighted, overheated neighborhood streets are being rejuvenated into thriving greenbelts of water, people, wildlife, art, food, and celebration by planting once-drained stormwater, seed, and yard prunings.
This talk is both an invitation for you to engage and partner with your natural surroundings and community, and a treasure map showing you the way—by planting the rain, dancing with the sun, growing shade, feeding the soil, sailing with the wind, and living as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!
ABOUT BRAD:
Brad Lancaster is a dynamic teacher, consultant, and designer of regenerative systems that sustainably enhance local resources and our global potential. He is also the author of the award-winning, best-selling book series Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond; the information-packed website www.HarvestingRainwater.com; and the ‘Drops in a Bucket’ Blog.
Brad has taught throughout North America as well as in the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. His hometown projects have included working with the City of Tucson and other municipalities to legalize, incentivize, and provide guidance on water-harvesting systems, demonstration sites, and policy. He has likewise collaborated with state agencies to promote practices that transform local “wastes” into enhanced soil fertility. Brad’s aim is always to boost communities’ true health and wealth by using simple overlapping strategies to augment the region’s hydrology, ecosystems, economies, local food and renewable power production, citizens’ capabilities and cooperation, joy, and beauty.
Brad lives his talk on an oasis-like demonstration site he created and continually improves with his brother and neighbors in downtown Tucson, Arizona. On this eighth of an acre and surrounding public right-of-way, they harvest 100,000 gallons of rainwater a year where less than 12 inches fall from the sky. In addition, the site’s sun-, wind-, and shade-harvesting systems power both Brad’s and his brother’s homes, and help power those of their neighbors. Brad is motivated in his work by the tens of thousands of people he has helped inspire to do likewise, go further, and continue our collective evolution.

Brad Lancaster: Book Signing & Public Talk: Integrated Local Harvests, June 26, 2013 — Los Angeles CA
2013-06-26 19:30 - 21:00
Thanks to event sponsors:
Los Angeles Eco-Village Collaborative,
CRSP Institute for Urban Eco-Villages,
Urban Soil-Tierra Urbana Co-op,
Beverly-Vermont Community Land Trust, and
Greywater Action
for making this event possible!
WHEN:
Wednesday evening, June 26
7:30–9 pm
WHERE:
L.A. Eco-Village
117 Bimini Place
Los Angeles CA 90004
COST:
$5–$10 sliding scale (no one turned away)
CLICK HERE FMI
ABOUT THE NEW, EXPANDED EDITION OF VOLUME 1—AVAILABLE FOR SALE & SIGNING:
Turn water scarcity into water abundance! Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition, is the best-selling, award-winning guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-, sun-, wind-, and shade-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional plan specific to your site and needs.
Clearly written with more than 280 illustrations, this volume helps bring your site to life; reduce your cost of living; endow you with skills of self-reliance; and create community-building, living, air-conditioning vegetation that grows beauty, food, and wildlife habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain, sun, wind, and shade into their life and landscape will invite you to do the same!
ABOUT THE TALK:
Integrated Local Harvests:
Simple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Abundance of Your Home, Community, and the Larger World
This dynamic presentation shares patterns and strategies to harvest, integrate, and enhance free local resources—such as rain-, grey-, and stormwaters; sun, wind, and shade; and soil fertility, wild foods, and community fun—in a way that generates far more potential than the sum of their parts. Scarcity is re-visioned into abundance simply through creative cycling and utilization of what is already at hand. Costly and consuming habits and infrastructure, disconnected from their surroundings, are reoriented and reconnected to maximize enriching opportunities.
You’ll see many examples of such transformation, including how once-dying wetlands and creek flows are being regenerated with simple hand-built structures made of on-site materials; how ancient sun- and shade-harvesting sites are informing passively heated, cooled, and powered modern homes and retrofits; and how once-blighted, overheated neighborhood streets are being rejuvenated into thriving greenbelts of water, people, wildlife, art, food, and celebration by planting once-drained stormwater, seed, and yard prunings.
This talk is both an invitation for you to engage and partner with your natural surroundings and community, and a treasure map showing you the way—by planting the rain, dancing with the sun, growing shade, feeding the soil, sailing with the wind, and living as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!
ABOUT BRAD:
Brad Lancaster is a dynamic teacher, consultant, and designer of regenerative systems that sustainably enhance local resources and our global potential. He is also the author of the award-winning, best-selling book series Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond; the information-packed website www.HarvestingRainwater.com; and the ‘Drops in a Bucket’ Blog.
Brad has taught throughout North America as well as in the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. His hometown projects have included working with the City of Tucson and other municipalities to legalize, incentivize, and provide guidance on water-harvesting systems, demonstration sites, and policy. He has likewise collaborated with state agencies to promote practices that transform local “wastes” into enhanced soil fertility. Brad’s aim is always to boost communities’ true health and wealth by using simple overlapping strategies to augment the region’s hydrology, ecosystems, economies, local food and renewable power production, citizens’ capabilities and cooperation, joy, and beauty.
Brad lives his talk on an oasis-like demonstration site he created and continually improves with his brother and neighbors in downtown Tucson, Arizona. On this eighth of an acre and surrounding public right-of-way, they harvest 100,000 gallons of rainwater a year where less than 12 inches fall from the sky. In addition, the site’s sun-, wind-, and shade-harvesting systems power both Brad’s and his brother’s homes, and help power those of their neighbors. Brad is motivated in his work by the tens of thousands of people he has helped inspire to do likewise, go further, and continue our collective evolution.

Brad Lancaster: Book Signing & Public Talk: Integrated Local Harvests, June 25, 2013 — Santa Barbara CA
2013-06-25 19:30 - 21:00
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network &
Sweetwater Collaborative Present:
Booksigning & Evening Talk with
Brad Lancaster

author of
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond,
Volume 1, 2nd Edition
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
7:30 pm, $5 donation
Santa Barbara Central Library, Faulkner Gallery
40 East Anapamu St, Santa Barbara
Click poster below to download:

Rainwater-harvesting expert Brad Lancaster returns to Santa Barbara with his newly published 2nd edition of his award-winning, best-selling book Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, on Tuesday, June 25.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Turn water scarcity into water abundance! Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition, is the best-selling, award-winning guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-, sun-, wind-, and shade-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional plan specific to your site and needs.
Clearly written with more than 280 illustrations, this volume helps bring your site to life; reduce your cost of living; endow you with skills of self-reliance; and create community-building, living, air-conditioning vegetation that grows beauty, food, and wildlife habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain, sun, wind, and shade into their life and landscape will invite you to do the same!
ABOUT THE TALK:
Integrated Local Harvests:
Simple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Abundance of Your Home, Community, and the Larger World
This dynamic presentation shares patterns and strategies to harvest, integrate, and enhance free local resources—such as rain-, grey-, and stormwaters; sun, wind, and shade; and soil fertility, wild foods, and community fun—in a way that generates far more potential than the sum of their parts. Scarcity is re-visioned into abundance simply through creative cycling and utilization of what is already at hand. Costly and consuming habits and infrastructure, disconnected from their surroundings, are reoriented and reconnected to maximize enriching opportunities.
You’ll see many examples of such transformation, including how once-dying wetlands and creek flows are being regenerated with simple hand-built structures made of on-site materials; how ancient sun- and shade-harvesting sites are informing passively heated, cooled, and powered modern homes and retrofits; and how once-blighted, overheated neighborhood streets are being rejuvenated into thriving greenbelts of water, people, wildlife, art, food, and celebration by planting once-drained stormwater, seed, and yard prunings.
This talk is both an invitation for you to engage and partner with your natural surroundings and community, and a treasure map showing you the way—by planting the rain, dancing with the sun, growing shade, feeding the soil, sailing with the wind, and living as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!
Co-sponsored by Santa Barbara Permaculture Network & Sweetwater Collaborative
For more information, please call (805) 962-2571, margie@sbpermaculture.org
ABOUT BRAD:
Brad Lancaster is a dynamic teacher, consultant, and designer of regenerative systems that sustainably enhance local resources and our global potential. He is also the author of the award-winning, best-selling book series Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond; the information-packed website www.HarvestingRainwater.com; and the ‘Drops in a Bucket’ Blog.
Brad has taught throughout North America as well as in the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. His hometown projects have included working with the City of Tucson and other municipalities to legalize, incentivize, and provide guidance on water-harvesting systems, demonstration sites, and policy. He has likewise collaborated with state agencies to promote practices that transform local “wastes” into enhanced soil fertility. Brad’s aim is always to boost communities’ true health and wealth by using simple overlapping strategies to augment the region’s hydrology, ecosystems, economies, local food and renewable power production, citizens’ capabilities and cooperation, joy, and beauty.
Brad lives his talk on an oasis-like demonstration site he created and continually improves with his brother and neighbors in downtown Tucson, Arizona. On this eighth of an acre and surrounding public right-of-way, they harvest 100,000 gallons of rainwater a year where less than 12 inches fall from the sky. In addition, the site’s sun-, wind-, and shade-harvesting systems power both Brad’s and his brother’s homes, and help power those of their neighbors. Brad is motivated in his work by the tens of thousands of people he has helped inspire to do likewise, go further, and continue our collective evolution.

Event Sponsors:
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
www.sbpermaculture.org
&
Sweetwater Collaborative
www.sweetwatercollaborative.org

Brad Lancaster: Sierra EcoSummit & Festival, June 23, 2013 — Groveland CA
2013-06-23
Complete information to come.
Meanwhile, check out basic event info at www.sierraecosummit.org.

Brad Lancaster & Great Basin Permaculture: One-Day Water-Harvesting Seminar, June 22, 2013 — Las Vegas NV
2013-06-22 09:00 - 17:00
Join Great Basin Permaculture and Brad Lancaster for a one-day seminar in water harvesting and conservation!
WHAT:
A one-day seminar on the most important issue challenging our community’s vitality. Brad Lancaster, a leading authority in the water-conservation movement, will teach Las Vegans how to achieve more with less—moving the discussion beyond typical restrictions to topics such as rainwater harvesting, designing for resilience, and earthwork construction.
WHEN:
Saturday, June 22
9 am: Networking breakfast and registration
10 am – 5 pm: Presentations, breakout sessions, roundtable discussions. Lunch will be served.
WHERE:
Downtown Construction Zone
102 S 7th St, between Fremont St & Carson Ave
WHY:
Finding new ways to live sustainably is an imperative to keeping our community healthy and strong. Recently, the Colorado River was named the most endangered in the country, and the Bureau of Reclamation recently released a report forecasting severe water loss due to climate change. This seminar will be packed with strategies attendees can implement immediately. Lancaster will teach specific pathways to resilience; for instance, how to use greywater for landscaping… and make it legal—as it already is in our surrounding states!
FMI:
Contact Peter Frigeri at peter@greatbasinpermaculture.org

Brad Lancaster: Public Talk: Integrated Local Harvests, June 20, 2013 — Boulder UT
2013-06-20 18:00 - 20:00
Integrated Local Harvests:
Simple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Abundance of Your Home, Community, and the Larger World
The talk will be followed by book sales & signing of Brad’s new edition of Volume 1

When: Thursday, June 20, 6–8 pm.
Where: Red House Farm, Boulder, Utah
Cost: Free. Donations welcome to cover the speaker’s travel expenses.
Join Brad Lancaster, author of the award-winning books Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond (Volumes 1 and 2), to celebrate the new edition of his first book and to explore different ways to create an a natural abundance. Brad will share a diverse array of strategies to assess your on-site resources, maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional plan specific to your site and needs.
This dynamic presentation shares patterns and strategies to harvest, integrate, and enhance free local resources – such as rainwater, greywater, and stormwaters; sun, wind, and shade; and soil fertility, wild foods, and community fun – in a way that generates far more potential than the sum of their parts. Scarcity is re-visioned into abundance simply through creative cycling and utilization of what is already at hand. Costly and consuming habits and infrastructure, disconnected from their surroundings, are reoriented and reconnected to maximize enriching opportunities.You’ll see many examples of such transformation, including how once-dying wetlands and creek flows are being regenerated with simple hand-built structures made of on-site materials; how ancient sun- and shade-harvesting sites are informing passively heated, cooled, and powered modern homes and retrofits; and how once-blighted, overheated neighborhood streets are being rejuvenated into thriving greenbelts of water, people, wildlife, art, food, and celebration by planting once-drained stormwater, seed, and yard prunings.
This talk is both an invitation for you to engage and partner with your natural surroundings and community, and a treasure map showing you the way—by planting the rain, dancing with the sun, growing shade, feeding the soil, sailing with the wind, and living as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!
The talk is hosted by True Nature Sustainable Living & Wilderness School (special thanks to Eden Gal!) and will be followed by a book signing of Brad’s new edition of Rainwater Harvesting Volume 1.

Brad Lancaster: Hands-on Earthworks & Acequia Workshop, June 9, 2013 — Albuquerque NM
2013-06-09 10:00 - 16:00
Date: Sunday, June 9, 2013
Time: 10 am to 4 pm
Brad will be leading a hands-on workshop at Kalyx Studio Learning Center in Bernalillo County’s South Valley.
Participants will learn and practice earthwork techniques used in water-harvesting systems. The workshop will focus specifically on earthworks that can be implemented to improve the efficiency of acequia irrigation for the home garden.
Although we will be constructing a system that combines traditional desert-gardening practices with water-harvesting techniques as applied to acequia irrigation, all of the techniques relate directly to working with rainwater and greywater systems.
At this time the workshop is full, but there is a wait list in the event of cancellations. Inquiries can be directed to workshop organizer Leslie Buerk at info@kalyxstudio.com.

Brad Lancaster: Free Public Talk on Water-Harvesting & Integrated Design, June 7, 2013 — Albuquerque NM
2013-06-07 18:00 - 20:00
Brad will give his classic water-harvesting talk with new material on integrated design.

Time: 6–8 pm
Venue: Garcia Honda Auditorium—George Pearl Hall
University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning, Albuquerque
Cost: Free
Refreshments graciously provided by La Montañita Co-op.
We are crossing our fingers that the much-awaited new edition of Brad’s Volume 1 in the Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond series will be hot off the press and available for sale and signing after Brad’s talk. Volume 2 will be available.
FMI: Contact Amanda at Erda Gardens: info@erdagardens.org | (505) 610-1538 | www.erdagardens.org
Thank you to the following organizations for making this event happen!

Erda Gardens and Learning Center
Kalyx Studio
Permaculture Institute
Querencia Green
University of New Mexico’s Sustainability Studies Program

Brad Lancaster: Conferencia Pública de Cosecha de Agua de Lluvia y Reforestación Urbana, 24–25 de mayo 2013 — La Paz, México
2013-05-24 19:30 - 22:00
Niparajá A.C. y Raíz De Fondo A.C. te invitan a:

“Conferencia Pública de Cosecha de Agua de Lluvia y Reforestación Urbana”
Ponente Principal: Brad Lancaster
Presentación: 7:30PM – 10:00PM viernes, 24 de mayo 2013, Jardín Comunitario Sabores De La Tierra (Nayarit #40, Col. Manglito, a media cuadra de la playa)
Intervención: 9:00AM – 1:00PM sábado, 25 de mayo 2013, Jardín Comunitario Encinas (Calle Guillermo Prieto 1016, esq. Encinas, Col. Centro)

Tú puedes crear tu propio OASIS en tu patio, en la banqueta frente de tu casa, en espacios públicos… Y lo puedes hacer con AGUA DE LLUVIA.
Este evento es gratuito y abierto a todo público, y será hablado en español y inglés simultaneamente. ¡Invita a quien quieras!
Canalizando el agua pluvial correctamente y a muy bajo costo, podemos crear espacios verdes, recargar acuíferos y reducir inundaciones en sus espacios públicos y desarrollos. En este evento se reunirá el sector público, turístico, de la construcción y el público en general para aprender de alternativas comprobadas que aumentarán la calidad de vida para todos que habitamos en Baja California Sur.
Brad Lancaster nos visita desde Tucson, Arizona, una región con un clima desértico y población muy parecidos a La Paz. En su patio urbano de 500 m2 él logra recolectar más de 375,000 litros de agua pluvial al año para alimentar su jardín de plantas comestibles, medicinales y de sombra. Autor de dos libros sobre el tema, Brad ha diseñado e instalado docenas de proyectos públicos y particulares para capturar, guardar y utilizar el agua pluvial para reforestar paisajes urbanos.
Este evento es gratuito y abierto a todo público. ¡Invita a quien quieras!
Para mayores informes visita: www.raizdefondo.org
También, si quieres saber más sobre el tema sugerimos que veas la pagina de Brad Lancaster www.www.harvestingrainwater.com/ y este video en Youtube para tener una idea de que tanta agua podemos recolectar en La Paz….
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Public Conference on Rainwater Harvesting and Urban Reforestation
Theory: 19:30 hrs. Friday, May 24, Sabores De La Tierra Community Garden (Nayarit #40, Col. El Manglito, a half block from the beach)
Practice Installation: 09:00 hrs. Saturday, May 25, Encinas Community Garden (Guillermo Prieto #1016, corner of Encinas, Col. Centro)
You can create your own OASIS in your patio, on the sidewalk in front of your home, in public spaces… And you can do it with RAIN WATER.
This Friday and Saturday we’ll teach you how with BRAD LANCASTER, author of 2 books on the subject and leader in the urban reforestation in drylands. This workshop is free and open to the public. For more info visit www.raizdefondo.org Invite a friend!
(This event will be spoken in English and Spanish simultaneously.)

Brad Lancaster: Free Public Talk on Water Harvesting and Integrated Design, April 12, 2013—Phoenix AZ
2013-04-12 18:00 - 19:30
Brad will be giving a version of his classic water-harvesting talk, updated to include more information on integrated design.
Date: Friday, April 12, 2013
Time: 6–7:30 pm
Location: Phoenix City Hall, 200 W Washington St, Phoenix
Room: Assembly Rooms A, B, & C
Free parking at City Hall garage if you arrive before 6 pm!
Event information can also be found on the City of Phoenix’s Water Services Facebook page, at WaterUseItWisely.com and on Water—Use It Wisely’s Facebook page (if not yet posted, it will be soon!).
Thanks to the City of Phoenix for hosting this event on behalf of ADWR and AMWUA as part of Water Awareness Month!

WMG Instructors: Water-Harvesting Certification Course, April 5–13, 2013 — Tucson AZ
2013-04-05 - 2013-04-13
Note: Brad is one of many instructors for this course.

The WMG Water Harvesting Certification program is a hands-on training course that provides certification in water-harvesting-system design and implementation. WMG’s goal is to transfer water-harvesting knowledge to those who will utilize these practices in their professions and, in turn, teach the practices to others. Our program provides the highest quality and greatest depth of training in integrative water harvesting offered in the nation.
The course teaches design, implementation, and installation of:

Greywater systems
Water-harvesting earthworks
Plastic cisterns

Early Registration: Apply by January 21, 2013. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the course is full, so early applications are encouraged. $1,100 course fee, including gourmet local-food lunch each day of the training.
Regular Registration: Apply by February 25, 2013. $1,250 course fee, including gourmet local-food lunch each day of the training.
For more information and to apply visit http://watershedmg.org/tech-trainings

Brad Lancaster & Joel Glanzberg: 4-Day Permaculture Interactive Series, March 13–16, 2013 — Moab UT
2013-03-13 - 2013-03-16
Click image below to visit Community Rebuilds’ website for event details and maps.
Click image above to visit Community Rebuilds’ website

Brad Lancaster: Dig In! Food and Farming Festival, March 1–2, 2013 — Fayetteville AR
2013-03-01
Click image above to visit the Festival website
The festival will be taking place at the University of Arkansas Global Campus in Fayetteville
From the Dig In! organizers:
Here’s an overview of the 2013 festival! We hope you will consider buying a supporter pass if you are able, but remember the conference is offered by donation also so that it is available to everyone. Suggested donation is $5 per class, film, talk. It’s going to be a great time.

All events take place at UA Global Campus on the Fayetteville Square. Map here. When you arrive, check in at registration booth in street-level lobby. You will get a detailed program at check in.
Thursday, February 28

After School Special—4:00-5:30 p.m. What’s on Your Plate – a fun-filled movie about where food comes
from. The film follows two eleven-year-old city kids as they talk to food activists, farmers, new friends,
storekeepers, their families, and the viewer, in their quest to understand what’s on all of our plates. This
movie is free and open to the public – everyone welcome. This is a great film for kids, but adults will love it
too. Donations gratefully accepted. A co-production with Apple Seeds, Inc.

Evening—Films: Festival Starters 7 p.m. Truck Farm and 7:55 Fresh This showing of Fresh sponsored by the Fayetteville Chapter of The Weston A. Price Foundation.

Friday, March 1: Farmer Friday
One morning track designed for farmers and aspiring farmers. A second morning track for gardeners with some experience. Followed by a special keynote presentation of interest to both groups and and to water conservationists too. Farmer Friday is offered by donation, with $20 suggested for the full day, but we want Farmer Friday available to all growers who are interested, so please come as you are!

9:00-9:30 Registration and Welcome: Street level Lobby

Farmers Morning Session 1: 9:30 to 10:45—”How to Sell More” Lori Boatwright, Public and Media Coordinator, Fayetteville Farmers Market, and Nicki McNelly, Manager, Bentonville Farmers Market

Farmers Morning Session 2: 11:00-12:00—”Small Farm Financing” Charlie Stockton, FORGE, Financing Ozark Rural Growth and Economy (forgeonline.com)

Gardeners Morning Session 1: 9:30 to 10:45—“The Generous Garden: Designing Landscapes That Give As They Grow” with Leigh Wilkerson & “Backyard Fruit” with Guy Ames.

Gardeners ( & Growers welcome too) Session 2: 11:00-12:00 — “Fundamentals of no-till gardening: start and run a garden or farm with no machine, high yields and great peace” with Patrice Gros.

12 noon: Lunch and Conversation: Lunch provided by Ozark Natural Foods for full-day participants.

Afternoon Keynote Session & Conversation: 1:00-4:00—“Planting the Rain: Principles, Practices, and Tips for Water-Harvesting Earthworks & more” Brad Lancaster, author of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond. Food is virtual water – originating from the source of irrigation. Local, sustainable food is all the rage, but we can take it further by growing that food with local, sustainable water. This talk covers the growing of food using rainwater for irrigation. Case studies include rain-fed greenhouses, dryfarming, backyard market gardens , and climate-appropriate plantings.

Friday Evening, March 1: Opening Night & Film Premieres!!

Opening Reception sponsored by BHK Kafe and Arsaga’s at The Depot— 5: 30 p.m. Come and kick off the main festival with all of our friends, supporters, volunteers, teachers, and sponsors. (This ticketed event is included in Foodie, Locavore, and Friend of the Farm Passes, or $15 per ticket)

Farmer Friday: FILM PREMIERE NIGHT starts at 7 p.m. Join us for the Arkansas premieres of Eating Alabama at 7 p.m. and To Make a Farm* at 8:15. Two delightful new films, not to be missed, were the favorites of your Dig In! coordinators and are the highlight of our film series. Included in supporters passes; suggested donation $5/film.

Saturday, March 2: The Big Day!
Classes & Films Included in all Festival Passes or $5 suggested donation per session; seed swap and information/vendor fair are free.
8-9 Registration & Coffee. Info & Vendor Fair Opens. Info/Vendor fair.
CLASS SCHEDULE:
9-10am Concurrent Class Session 1
EMMA: EASY BRASSICAS & COOL WEATHER GREENS
DANA & LEIGH: EDIBLE LANDSCAPES
MARY: CANNING & PRESERVING
PATRICE: WINTER HARVEST
CHEF LEWIS: COOKING IN SEASON

1030-1130am Concurrent Class Session 2

MARIAH & IRA: BACKYARD CHICKENS
JANE: COMPOSTING FOR BETTER SOILS
KARYN: EASY HERBS TO GROW AND COOK
TIFFANY: BUDGET BEGINNER ORGANIC GARDENS
CHEF TUESDAY: COOKING IN SEASON

1130-130p Lunch Break/ Vendor Fair/ Interest Group Roundtables/ FREE Community Seed Swap by Fayetteville Community Garden Coalition.
11:30-12:30 Sponsored Tasting: Lean Green Gourmet. Visit their table in the Information & Vendor Fair
12:30-1:30 Sponsored Tasting: Greenhouse Grille Visit their table in the Information & Vendor Fair
12:00-1:00 Interest Roundtables: Community conversations, totally casual. Meet up with other folks who share your interests and share information.
•Lexicon of Food: What do the terms organic, local, locavore really mean? Farmer James Maginot of Beyond Organics Farm will moderate this discussion on the terminology of the food movement.
•Urban Gardening: Peter Nierengarten, Director of Sustainability and Strategic Planning for the City of
Fayetteville will moderate this conversation on the particular challenges and opportunities of growing within cities.
•Find Your Food: Local Markets, CSAs & More. Farmers Mariah and Ira of Summer Kitchen Farm will moderate this conversation on exploring options to eat more locally.

130-330p PUBLIC KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: BRAD LANCASTER
Classic Water-Harvesting Presentation: Turning Drains Into Sponges and Water Scarcity Into Water Abundance
This inspiring presentation shares eight universal principles of water harvesting along with simple strategies that turn water scarcity into water abundance. They empower you to create integrated water-sustainable landscape plans at home and throughout your community. Rainwater harvesting is the process of capturing rain and making the most of it as close as possible to where it falls. You’ll see examples enhancing local food security, passively cooling cities in summer, reducing costs of living and energy consumption, controlling erosion, averting flooding, reviving dead waterways, minimizing water pollution, building community, creating celebration, and more.
3:30-4:00 Sponsored Tasting: Ozark Natural Foods Tasting table in the Information & Vendor Fair area (4th Floor).
400-500pm Concurrent Class Session 3
CELESTE: MAKING MEDICINALS WITH HERBS
CAT & LUCY: FERMENTED FOODS FOR BEGINNERS
LEIGH: BEGINNER BEEKEEPING
GUY: GROWING BACKYARD FRUIT
HERB: SEED SAVING (Followed by an “Advanced Seed Savers Exchange” by Fayetteville Community Garden Coalition. See details here.

Saturday Evening—FESTIVAL FILMS: Make A Difference Night Films start at 6:30 King Corn (90 min) , 8:10 Big River (27 min) 8:40 Homegrown Revolution (14 min) (Included in all Festival Passes, or $5 per film suggested donation)
Stay tuned to this page for more news coming soon. You will receive a program with all event details when you register at the festival Thurs, Fri or Sat. Please join us.
Cost: The festival is offered by donation. It is a not-for-profit event and your contributions and those of our sponsors make the festival happen. If you can, please consider a supporters pass. You can also get a pass at the festival and/or donate what you can. Mainly: we want everyone to be able to attend—so come as you are!
Map, directions, parking info here: http://diginfestival.com/map_parking/

Regular Registration Deadline for WMG's Water-Harvesting Certification Course, Spring 2013 — Tucson AZ
2013-02-25
