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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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SUMMARY:2020 Rocky Mountain Natural Building Conference - Moab\, Utah
DESCRIPTION:The Natural Building Alliance presents the 2020 Rocky Mountain Natural Building Conference.  This will be our first conference outside of Colorado.  Come join us in Beautiful Moab\, Utah\, the home of Community Rebuilds and endless recreation opportunities.  The event will be held at the Moab Arts and Recreation Center Thursday\, March 26th through Saturday 28th. \nThe theme of the conference is “All Hands In”.  This theme recognizes and celebrates the fact that everything that all of us are doing is important and awesome\, and that we can work together to make it even more awesome. \nOur Keynote Speaker for the event with be Chris Magwood of the Endeavour Centre\, from Peterborough\, Ontario\, Canada.  He will be exploring if Natural Builders are Climate Heroes. Brad Lancaster will also be speaking and teaching at the event on regenerative and integrated harvests of on-site\, free waters.\nThe conference program will include podium presentations\, breakout sessions\, and round-tables\, and will also feature a generous variety of outdoor\, hands-on workshops\, and jovial after-hours gatherings.  And don’t forget… it’s Moab!  We encourage everyone to arrive early or stay late and enjoy this amazing corner of Planet Earth.\nOnline registration for the conference is available at special Early Bird rates until January 15th.  Space at the venue is limited\, so sign up before it fills up!  You can pay via your PayPal account\, a credit card via “Stripe”\, through the Natural Building Alliance website\, or by mailing a good ol’ fashioned check.  Tickets are also available through Eventbrite on our Natural Building Alliance Facebook page.  If you’re an existing NBA member\, please email us for a discount coupon code.\nFor more details see:\nhttps://natural-building-alliance.org/events/2020_rmnbc/ \n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/2020-rocky-mountain-natural-building-conference-moab-utah/
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SUMMARY:Agroforestry conference\, March 17 to 19\, 2020 - Tucson\, Arizona
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRATION NOW OPEN\nSouthwest Agroforestry Action Network\, 2ndAnnual Conference\nSouthwest Agroforestry Challenges and Best Practice Solutions\n \nWHEN:  March 17 – 19\, 2020\nWHERE: Tucson\, AZ\nAGENDA AND REGISTRATION: https://swaan-site.org/\n \nWHO IS SWAAN?\nThe Southwest Agroforestry Action Network (SWAAN) mission: Helping people integrate trees\, crops\, and animals to regenerate Southwest landscapes. SWAAN’s scope of interest is forest-agricultural activities on tribal\, state\, federal\, county\, municipal and private lands in Arizona\, New Mexico\, Colorado and Utah \n \nWHO SHOULD ATTEND \n\nAgricultural producers\, Tribes\, ranchers\, community gardeners and orchardists\, permaculturalists\, water harvesters\, and others who produce food for themselves;\nRepresentatives of government agencies\, cooperative extension\, universities\, and nonprofit organizations who support sustainable solutions for agriculture\, forestry\, and communities through their programs; and\nPeople interested in community food forests and forest-agricultural activities including alley cropping\, forest farming\, riparian forest buffers\, silvopasture\, windbreaks\, and shelterbelts.\n\nAGENDA SUMMARY\nComplete agenda at https://swaan-site.org/\n \nTuesday\, March 17\, Presentations\nUniversity of Arizona\, ENR2 Building\, Room 107\, 1064 E Lowell St\, Tucson\, AZ\nOne day registration fee $40; lunch provided \n\n Dr. James Allen\, SWAAN\, NAU: Introduction to SWAAN and Agroforestry in the Southwest\nDr. Kathleen Merrigan\, Morning Keynote\, ASU Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems: Sustainable Food Systems in the US Southwest\nSusan Stein\, USDA National Agroforestry Center: The National Agroforestry Center\, an Information Resource\nUSDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS): Opportunities for NRCS Financial and Technical Assistance to Support Agroforestry Practices\nDenise Purvis\, Mary McKay\, Harris Heritage Farm\, Sonoita\, AZ: Developing and Sustaining a Family Farm in Southern Arizona\nDr. Ursula Schuch\, Environmental Horticulture\, UA School of Plant Sciences:Best Practice Solutions for Increasing the Success of Agroforestry in Semi-arid Environments of the US Southwest\nBrad Lancaster\, Afternoon Keynote Speaker\, Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond: Best Practices for Providing Sustainable Water Supplies to Urban Trees\nKendall Kroesen\, Mission Garden/Friends of Tucson’s Birthplace: Mission Garden: Tucson’s Agricultural Origins\nJacobo Marcus\, Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture Institute: High Desert Food Forests\nAnn Audrey\, Linking Edible Arizona Forests (LEAF) Network: Resources for Growing Edible Trees in Agroforestry Systems in Arizona\nCori Dolan\, Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management: Resources Available to Help Support Trees in Arizona\n\nWednesday\, March 18\, Fieldtrips\nOne day registration fee\, $40\, lunch provided \n\nMission Garden\, Tucson\, AZ: Time line gardens covering 4000 years with extensive tree and garden plantings\nDunbar-Spring Neighborhood\, Tucson\, AZ: Neighborhood Foresters tree-planting program in public rights-of-way supported by water harvesting and Brad Lancaster’s permaculture homestead with water harvesting\, solar power and edible trees\nHarris Heritage Growers\, Sonoita\, AZ: Tour of U-Pick Family Farm in southern Arizona with trees\, crops and animals\n\nThursday\, March 19\, SWAAN Business Meeting \nUA/Pima County Cooperative Extension Office\, 4210 N Campbell Avenue\, Tucson\, AZ \nConference participants and public are invited to attend.\n \nKEYNOTE SPEAKERS\n Dr. Kathleen Merrigan\, Director\, Arizona State University Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems\nDr. Kathleen Merrigan helped write the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990. As the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture from 2009 to 2013\, she managed the Know Your Farmer\, Know Your Foodinitiative to support local and regional food systems. She became the first female chair of the ‘Ministerial Conference of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization in 2009 and was named one of Time magazine’s “100 most influential people in the world” in 2010. Prior to coming to ASU’s Swette Center\, Dr. Merrigan was the executive director of sustainability at George Washington University\, leading their Sustainability Collaborative and Food Institute.\n \nBrad Lancaster\, Author of the book series Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and BeyondBrad Lancaster isa dynamic teacher\, consultant\, and designer of regenerative systems that sustainably enhance local resources and our global potential. Lancaster has taught water harvesting and sustainable design throughout North America as well as in the Middle East\, Asia\, Europe\, Africa\, 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. In Tucson\, with just 11 inches of annual rainfall\, he and his brother harvest around 100\,000 gallons of rainwater a year on an eighth-acre urban lot and adjoining vegetated right-of-way.\n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/agroforestry-conference-tucson-arizona/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200315T090000
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SUMMARY:24th Annual Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Rain\, Tree\, & Food Forest Planting - Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:This 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.\nDate: Sunday\, March 15\, 2020.\nThe stormwater eddy basins (each having over 4\,500-gallon annual capacity) were just completed – so now we can plant. Got to plant the rain before we plant the plants!\nTime: 9:00 am for a planting demonstration\, then keep going to various parts of the neighborhood. 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 noon is approximate.\nMeeting spot: 948 N. 10th Ave\, Tucson AZ 85705\nOnce we finish planting there\, we’ll move to other locations in Dunbar/Spring and West University neighborhoods\n902 N. 10th Ave\n236 W. University Blvd\n2nd Street and Main Avenue\n1015 N. 5th Ave.\n9th Avenue and University Blvd.\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 as we reduce downstream flooding. Thus far this annual event has resulted in over 1\,500 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\, 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 \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. (Those wanting to learn how to set rock and work with\, and learn from\, the contractor will likely have this opportunity – contact Brad if this interests you).\n• Drill core holes 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 $450 – $500 per basin. Actual average cost is $900 to $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 at the two basins recently created on the south side of the Dunbar/Spring Community Garden on University Blvd between 11th Ave and Main Ave.\, and the basin at the SE corner of 10th Ave and First Street (photos below).\nNative trees (5-gallon size) cost $25 each. Understory plants (1-gallon size) cost $10 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.\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 2020\n\n\n\n\n\nExcavating and hauling away excavated soil to create street-side basin.\n \n\nBasin excavated. Checking depth of basin and planting terraces with laser level.\n \n\nBeautiful rock work stabilizing basin banks and planting terraces. Local surface rock – Catalina granite – used.\n \n\nDrilling 4-inch core hole to basin.\n \nCore hole complete\n \nRain and plants planted winter 2-2019\n \nFlourishing plants 6 months after planting 8-2019. Southeast corner 10th Avenue and 1st Street\n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/24th-annual-dunbar-spring-neighborhood-rain-tree-food-forest-planting-january-18-2020-tucson-az/
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SUMMARY:Water Harvesting Certification Course - Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:For full course details please visit: watershedmg.org/learn/training/certification \nGeneral Course Schedule \n\nSunday\, March 8\, 4pm-6pm\nMonday\, March 9 – Saturday\, March 14\, 8am-5pm (slight variations day-to-day)\nSunday\, March 15\, 10am-4:30pm\n\nCertification course curriculum\nThe curriculum provides detailed instruction on water-harvesting systems\, planning\, design\, and installation for retrofitting urban areas. The course includes: \n\nIn-depth site assessment and integrated system design of rainwater harvesting earthworks\, rain tanks\, and greywater features\nHands-on training workshops to install water-harvesting systems at public\, residential\, or commercial sites\nReading and homework assignments to solidify knowledge gained in hands-on workshops\nFinal exam to earn certification\n\nThe Water Harvesting Design Certification course is designed and administered by WMG staff with assistance from professionals who teach and implement water-harvesting practices. Cost includes lunch and snacks provided each day of the training.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/water-harvesting-certification-course-tucson-az/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200222T090000
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SUMMARY:Hands-On Tree Care\, Pruning & Mulching Workshop Saturday\, February 22\, 2020
DESCRIPTION:Starts at 9am\, stay as long as you can or want\nCost: $5 suggested donation\, though no one will be turned away due to lack of funds.\nWhere: the The Revolutionary Petunia/Dunbar Community Garden/Orchard space (NW corner of 11th Ave and University Blvd). Tucson\, Arizona\nOpen to all. Learn how you can organize similar Neighborhood Forester efforts in your neighborhood.\nAfter demonstration we will move to various parts of the neighborhood to get supervised hands-on experience as we help prune native food-bearing trees in our neighborhood’s public rights-of-way.\nThis is an incredible learning opportunity as every six months we revisit and rework areas pruned so we see the effect of our good work and mistakes\, thereby enabling us to improve and evolve with the expert guidance from certified arborist Aleck MacKinnon.\nWe’ll also cover how to prune to keep trees below power lines out of conflict with the utility lines.\nProfessionals can get continued education credits for the workshop from Aleck.\nInstructors: certified arborist Aleck MacKinnon of the Pedaling Arborist\, assisted by Brad Lancaster and Omar Ore-Giron of the Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Foresters.     \nBring pruning tools if you have them. We’ll provide for those that don’t. \n\nMulch service turning “wastes” into resources:\nAfter the pruning\, Omar will offer a service Dunbar/Spring neighbors to haul prunings to Tank’s Materials and deliver a half cubic yard of mulch in return. Minimum cost is $20\, based on volume.\nThis way the pruned biomass is recycled back into the root zone of the trees it came from. Nothing is thrown away or removed from the natural system.\nNOTE: All public rights-of-ways adjoining properties must maintain a continuous clear walkway area a minimum 5 feet wide and 7 feet tall to make our neighborhood walkways and forests accessible for all.\nSee our Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Walkability Study here.\nSponsored by the Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Foresters \nand Desert Harvesters\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/hands-on-pruning-mulching-workshop-saturday-february-22-2019/
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SUMMARY:Guided Water-Harvesting Home & Neighborhood Tour with Brad Lancaster - Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION: \nSOLD OUT\n– To be notified of the next tour email brad at admin@www.harvestingrainwater.com\n \nWHERE: 813 N. 9th Avenue\, Tucson\, Arizona\nWHEN: 10am to noon\, Saturday\, February 15\, 2020\nCOST: $10 per person. Must pay/register in advance: \n\nSOLD OUT\n– To be notified of the next tour email brad at admin@www.harvestingrainwater.com\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 neighborhood.\nThis is a rare opportunity as Brad does not give many public tours.\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\n \n \nIn the neighborhood part of the tour you’ll see:\n• water-harvesting traffic-calming features that helped turn a dangerous streets into a welcoming bicycle boulevards\,\n• street-runoff harvesting strategies that use street runoff to freely irrigate street trees and control flooding – and new evolutions 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 just released & revised\, full-color editions of his award-winning books; and Plant the Rain t-shirts\, caps\, and stickers.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/guided-water-harvesting-home-neighborhood-tour-with-brad-lancaster-tucson-az-2/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200209
DTSTAMP:20190823T034233Z
CREATED:20190823T034233Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190823T034233Z
UID:11669-1581152400-1581152400@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Spring 2020 - Permaculture Design Course\, Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:Dates for the the upcoming Spring 2020 course are the following five weekends:\n-February 8th and 9th\n-February 15th and 16th\n-February 29th and March 1st\n-March 14th and 15th\n-March 21st and 22nd\nGenerally\, class runs from 9AM to 5:30 PM each day. The cost for the course is $785. There is an OPTIONAL textbook cost of about $42 for a copy of Introduction to Permaculture by Bill Mollison\, available on the Internet\, but it is not required. You will be able to complete the course with just the 175 page notebook supplied as part of the course fee.  Also highly recommended  is Brad Lancaster’s Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, Volume 1\, 3rd Edition. A limited number of partial scholarships are available to cover the course fee.\nFor more information see here
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/spring-2020-permaculture-design-course-tucson-az/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200210
DTSTAMP:20200116T202052Z
CREATED:20200116T202052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200116T202052Z
UID:16078-1581120000-1581292799@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Borderlands Regional Watershed Restoration Practitioners Workshop - Arivaca\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:  \nSaturday and Sunday\, February 8-9\, 2020 in Arivaca\, AZ \nHosted by the Altar Valley Conservation Alliance\n \nSponsored by the USFWS Partners for Fish and Wildlife program \n  \nJoin other practitioners such as Steve Carson of Rangeland Hands\, Brad Lancaster of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, Jeff Rhody and Omar Ore-Giron of Dryland Designs\, and many more in the Southwest borderlands region to design and implement treatments for drainages and begin aligning professional approaches and strategies specific to our region.  The hands-on work emphasis will be on the uplands of dryland watersheds.   \n  \nAt the workshop\, we will: \n\n\nTreat drainages on the Noon Ranch to encourage infiltration and native plant growth\, slow erosion\, and move toward connecting channels with the floodplain \n\n\nStrengthen connections among practitioners in our region working in urban\, suburban\, and rural contexts to grow our awareness of a community of practitioners \n\n\nDiscuss the following concepts among practitioners: \n\n\nStrategies\, approaches\, terminology\, reading the landscape\, and best practices for treating drainages and uplands \n\n\nDesigning work according to various land management goals (e.g.\, designing for cattle use\, wildlife habitat\, recreation\, etc.)  \n\n\nLinks between rural/wildland work\, road work\, and urban work   \n\n\nMaterials\, resources\, and activities needed to improve professional capacity and the overall quality of work in our region \n\n\nUsing these practices to support local economies in restoring watersheds and developing provisioning economies/food systems \n\n\n\n\nIncorporate materials and lessons learned into the Altar Valley Watershed Plan and other planning efforts  \n\n\n  \nAll practitioners and aspiring practitioners are welcome to join the workshop\, so please forward this invitation to whomever may be interested!  The draft agenda is attached; please plan to bring your own lunches and tools. All are welcome to participate in a potluck dinner and campout near the Noon Ranch on Saturday night! \n  \nPlease RSVP here! \n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/borderlands-regional-watershed-restoration-practitioners-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200124T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200124T203000
DTSTAMP:20200108T203709Z
CREATED:20200108T203709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200108T203709Z
UID:15695-1579892400-1579897800@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Water Harvesting Presentation\, Book Release & Signing with Brad Lancaster - Phoenix\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHERE: University of Arizona Maricopa County Cooperative Extension\, Palo Verde Room\n4341 E. Broadway Rd\, Phoenix\, AZ 85040\nWHEN: 7:00pm\, Friday\, January 24th\nCOST: Free \n\n\nJoin award-winning author\, Brad Lancaster for an evening of storytelling\, celebration\, and interaction as he shares new evolutions of inexpensive and highly effective strategies\, policies\, and practices that make the most of free on-site resources—such as the harvest of rainwater\, storm water\, greywater\, air conditioning condensate\, and more.\n\n\n \n\n\nAll can be implemented at home\, in your landscape\, your neighborhood and beyond in a way that collaborates with\, rather than fights\, the living systems that sustain us.\n\n\nStories and highlights from the newly released & revised\, full-color editions of Brad’s award-winning books will be featured.\n\n\n \n\n\nBrad will also be doing book signing\, and a limited number of the newly released full-color\, revised & expanded editions of Brad’s books will be available for purchase at deep discount on a first come\, first serve basis.\n\n\n \n\n\nPlant the Rain t-shirts\, caps\, and stickers will also be available for purchase.\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/water-harvesting-presentation-book-signing-with-brad-lancaster-phoenix-az/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200117T130000
DTSTAMP:20191213T230337Z
CREATED:20191213T230337Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191213T230337Z
UID:14526-1579262400-1579266000@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:ReEnlivening\, ReWilding\, & ReHydrating Our Communities presentation with Brad Lancaster - Tempe\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: 12 noon to 1:15pm\, Friday\, January 17\, 2020\nWHERE: Wrigley Hall\, Room 481\nArizona State University\, Tempe campus\nCOST: Free – if you preregister\nREGISTER NOW: Here\nHOST: JulieAnn Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability\, Arizona State University\nJoin award-winning author\, Brad Lancaster\, as he shares inexpensive\, and highly effective\, strategies that make the most of free on-site resources—such as the harvest of rainwater\, storm water\, greywater\, air conditioning condensate\, and more.\nAll can be implemented at home\, in your landscape\, your neighborhood and beyond.\nStories and highlights from the newly revised\, full-color editions of Brad’s award-winning books Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond will be featured.\nThere will be a book signing immediately following the lecture.\nA limited number of books will be available for purchase for at deep discount on a first come\, first serve basis.\nA light lunch will be served – but you must preregister here.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/water-harvesting-presentation-book-release-book-signing-tempe-az/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200116T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200116T203000
DTSTAMP:20191213T225205Z
CREATED:20191213T225205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191213T225205Z
UID:14511-1579201200-1579206600@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Water Harvesting Book Release\, Talk\, and Book Signing with Brad Lancaster - Phoenix\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: 7:00pm\, Thursday\, January 16\nWHERE: Changing Hands Bookstore\, 300 W Camelback Rd.\, Phoenix\, AZ 85013\nCOST: Free\nJoin award-winning author\, Brad Lancaster\, as he shares inexpensive\, and highly effective\, strategies that make the most of free on-site resources—such as the harvest of rainwater\, storm water\, greywater\, air conditioning condensate\, and more.\nAll can be implemented at home\, in your landscape\, your neighborhood and beyond.\nStories and highlights from the newly revised\, full-color editions of Brad’s award-winning books\nwill be featured.\nThere will be a book signing immediately following the lecture.\nA limited number of books will be available for purchase at deep discount on a first come\, first serve basis.\nBrad will also have Plant the Rain t-shirts\, caps\, and stickers available for purchase.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/water-harvesting-book-release-talk-and-book-signing-with-brad-lancaster-phoenix-az/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200115T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200115T200000
DTSTAMP:20191213T225740Z
CREATED:20191213T225740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191213T225740Z
UID:14521-1579113000-1579118400@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Water Harvesting Book Release\, Interactive Presentation\, & Book Signing with Brad Lancaster - Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: 6:30 pm\, Wednesday\, January 15th\nWHERE: EXO Roast & Bar\, 403 N 6th Ave\, Tucson\, AZ 85705\nCOST: Free \n\n\nJoin award-winning author\, Brad Lancaster for an evening of storytelling\, celebration\, and interaction as he shares new evolutions of inexpensive and highly effective strategies\, policies\, and practices that make the most of free on-site resources—such as the harvest of rainwater\, storm water\, greywater\, air conditioning condensate\, and more.\n\n\n \n\n\nAll can be implemented at home\, in your landscape\, your neighborhood and beyond in a way that collaborates with\, rather than fights\, the living systems that sustain us.\n\n\nStories and highlights from the newly released & revised\, full-color editions of Brad’s award-winning books will be featured.\n\n\n \n\n\nBrad will also be doing book signing\, and a limited number of books will be available for purchase at deep discount on a first come\, first serve basis.\n\n\n \n\n\nPlant the Rain t-shirts\, caps\, and stickers will also be available for purchase.\n\n\n\n\n  
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/water-harvesting-book-release-interactive-presentation-book-signing-with-brad-lancaster-tucson-az/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20191221T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20191221T120000
DTSTAMP:20191214T001156Z
CREATED:20191214T001156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191214T001156Z
UID:14532-1576922400-1576929600@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Guided Water-Harvesting Home & Neighborhood Tour with Brad Lancaster - Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: 10am – 12pm\, Saturday\, December 21\, 2020\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. \n\n \n\n\n\nNumber of home tour attendees\n\n\nOne person $10.00 USDTwo people $20.00 USDThree people $30.00 USDFour people $40.00 USDFive people $50.00 USD\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 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 a welcoming bicycle boulevards\,\n• street-runoff harvesting strategies that use street runoff to freely irrigate street trees and control flooding – and new evolutions 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://www.harvestingrainwater.com/shop/
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/guided-water-harvesting-home-neighborhood-tour-with-brad-lancaster-tucson-az/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20191202T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20191202T200000
DTSTAMP:20191029T051057Z
CREATED:20191029T051057Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191029T051057Z
UID:13177-1575309600-1575316800@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Water Harvesting Presentation & Book Signing with Brad Lancaster in Las Vegas\, NV
DESCRIPTION:Date and time: Monday\, December 2\, 6:00pm\nPlace: University of Nevada Cooperative Extension\, Lifelong Learning Center\, Classrooms A\, C\, D\n850 Paradise Road #105\, Las Vegas\, NV 89123\nCost: FREE\nTurn water scarcity into abundance!\nThis dynamic presentation shares inexpensive\, and highly effective\, strategies that\nmake the most of free on-site resources—such as the harvest of rainwater\,\nstormwater\, greywater\, air conditioning condensate\, and more. You can implement all\nat home\, in your landscape\, your neighborhood\, and beyond with numerous benefits\nsuch as flood control; reduced bills; local food production; beauty; street tree orchards;\nwildlife habitat; regenerating the flows of springs\, creeks\, wetlands\, and rivers;\ncommunity-building; and joy.\nStories and highlights from the newly revised\, full-color editions of Brad’s award-winning\nbooks\, and Desert Harvesters’ Eat Mesquite and More will be featured. And the books will be available for sale at deep discount!\nFlyer for Brad Lancaster presentation in Las Vegas
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/water-harvesting-presentation-book-signing-with-brad-lancaster-in-las-vegas-nv/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191206
DTSTAMP:20191008T191724Z
CREATED:20191008T191724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191008T191724Z
UID:12524-1575291600-1575550800@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:ARCSA Conference in Las Vegas\, Nevada
DESCRIPTION:Brad will be presenting at the conference Dec. 3 at 1pm.\nHere’s a brief synopsis of the presentation:\nPlant the Rain\, Recycle Your Drain Water\, and Save Energy; While Growing Resilience\, Abundance\, and Joy\nby Brad Lancaster\, author of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, and HarvestingRainwater.com\n \nIn most communities – even dryland communities more rain falls (for free) on the community than all its citizens consume of municipal water. Thus the potential of harvesting rainwater is huge\, especially when one considers the energy and monetary costs of pumping and transporting water. 20% of the state of California’s energy consumption goes to transporting and treating water. In the City of Tucson it is over 44%.\nWater-harvesting potential and energy savings dramatically increase still more when you integrate it with the recycling of once-used water\, or greywater. You don’t need to buy tanks\, pumps\, and filters—you can grow them in a way that heats buildings in winter and cools them in summer for free. Gravity-fed systems and pipeless systems can also be utilized which never fail from power outages or leaks.\nIntegrating water-harvesting with flood control takes things even further\, by shifting the focus from drainage to infiltration—results in millions of dollars saved per project\, enhanced quality of life\, and more income for cities and businesses.\nBleak streets and parking lots of exposed pavement can become street food forests and parking orchards irrigated with nothing more than the stormwater from the hardscape. Storm drains become storm parks. Crime drops\, the heat-island effect becomes the cool-island effect\, and life flourishes. This is available to us all everywhere if we make a simple mental shift. Numerous case studies and strategies to be shared\, along with Water-Energy-Carbon Nexus charts for at-home perusal comparing the energy consumption of various sources of water\, water needs of various energy sources (that may be used to pump or treat that water)\, and the carbon emitted by the water and energy sources.\n \nFor more info on the conference see:\nhttps://www.arcsa.org/event/2019conference
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/arcsa-conference-in-las-vegas-nevada/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20191119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20191119T193000
DTSTAMP:20191028T223441Z
CREATED:20191028T223441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191028T223441Z
UID:13154-1574186400-1574191800@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Water Harvesting Presentation & Book Signing with Brad Lancaster in Silver City\, NM
DESCRIPTION:Date and time: Tuesday\, November 19th\, 6:00pm\nPlace: El Sol Theatre\, 406 N. Bullard Street\, Silver City\, NM 88061\nBring a blanket – wonderful old theater can be cold\nCost: $5 suggested donation\,\nthough no one turned away due to lack of funds\nTurn water scarcity into abundance!\nThis dynamic presentation shares inexpensive\, and highly effective\, strategies that\nmake the most of free on-site resources—such as the harvest of rainwater\,\nstormwater\, greywater\, air conditioning condensate\, and more. You can implement all\nat home\, in your landscape\, your neighborhood\, and beyond with numerous benefits\nsuch as flood control; reduced bills; local food production; beauty; street tree orchards;\nwildlife habitat; regenerating the flows of springs\, creeks\, wetlands\, and rivers;\ncommunity-building; and joy.\nStories and highlights from the newly revised\, full-color editions of Brad’s award-winning\nbooks will be featured. And the books will be available for sale at deep discount!\nBook tour flyer 2019 Silver City
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/water-harvesting-presentation-and-book-signing-with-brad-lancaster/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20191110T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20191110T173000
DTSTAMP:20191028T224151Z
CREATED:20191028T224151Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191028T224151Z
UID:13159-1573403400-1573407000@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Water Harvesting Presentation & Book Signing with Brad Lancaster in Truth or Consequences\, NM
DESCRIPTION:Date and time: Sunday\, November 10 – 4:30 pm\nPlace: Truth or Consequences Brewery\n410 N. Broadway\, Truth or Consequences\, NM 87901\nCost: FREE\nTurn water scarcity into abundance!\nThis dynamic presentation shares inexpensive\, and highly effective\, strategies that\nmake the most of free on-site resources—such as the harvest of rainwater\,\nstormwater\, greywater\, air conditioning condensate\, and more. You can implement all\nat home\, in your landscape\, your neighborhood\, and beyond with numerous benefits\nsuch as flood control; reduced bills; local food production; beauty; street tree orchards;\nwildlife habitat; regenerating the flows of springs\, creeks\, wetlands\, and rivers;\ncommunity-building; and joy.\nStories and highlights from the newly revised\, full-color editions of Brad’s award-winning books Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond will be featured. The books will be available for sale at deep discount!\nBook tour flyer 2019 Truth or Consequences
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/water-harvesting-presentation-book-signing-with-brad-lancaster-in-truth-or-consequences-nm/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191105
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191109
DTSTAMP:20191007T213740Z
CREATED:20191007T213740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191007T213740Z
UID:12496-1572944400-1573232400@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Localizing California Waters: Integrated Water Solutions For Healthy Communities
DESCRIPTION:Where: Rush Creek & Evergreen Lodges in Yosemite\, California \nThe Localizing California Waters (LCW) Conference connects unlikely allies towards the broader goal of water management throughout California by discussing local water approaches in an intimate setting. \nLCW breaks down barriers to alignment through presentations\, round table discussions\, workshops and information networking to work towards an outcome of innovative solutions to local and global climate challenges by advancing local water policy and enacting best water management practices at an accelerated pace. \nThis year\, we’re focusing on activating the Water Portfolio. \nFor more info see:\nhttps://localizingcaliforniawaters.org/
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/localizing-california-waters-integrated-water-solutions-for-healthy-communities/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191111
DTSTAMP:20190318T230755Z
CREATED:20190318T230755Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190318T230755Z
UID:11385-1572800400-1573405200@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Watershed Management Group w/ Brad Lancaster: Water-Harvesting Certification Course\, November 3–10\, 2019 — Tucson AZ
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URL:https://watershedmg.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1093#new_tab
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191021
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191206
DTSTAMP:20190910T185955Z
CREATED:20190910T185955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190910T185955Z
UID:11798-1571616000-1575590399@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Online Rainwater Harvesting Course
DESCRIPTION: \nNote: Enrollment remains open until the night of October 27th. \nRainwater Harvesting Course Structure\nWEEK 1 RAINWATER HARVESTING PRINCIPLES: You will share stories of people and sites that are using rainwater harvesting to enhance their lives and communities.\nWEEK 2 SITE ASSESSMENT: You will discover how to analyze the rainwater resources in your climate and on your site\, as well as the water requirements that you need to plan for.\nWEEK 3 WATER COLLECTION STRATEGY: You will decide what features and systems to use and the reasons behind making the best choices for your site.\nWEEK 4 RAINWATER HARVESTING DESIGNS: You will integrate your rainwater harvesting strategies into a wider plan that also considers the sun\, plants\, soils\, and more.\nWEEK 5 TECHNICAL SYSTEMS DETAILS: You will refine the conceptual plan you are developing to bring you closer to installing the plan on your site. \nLearning Formats\nYou will assess your on-site rainwater resources and learn to apply a diversity of strategies to maximize their potential. This expert-led course features: \n\nvideo lectures\nexercises\nassignments\ncustom made spreadsheets and templates\n\nThe course also features the work of Arizona rainwater harvesting author Brad Lancaster. Brad’s best-selling-award-winning book “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond Volume 1″ is the textbook for the course. Brad is also the featured lecturer\, alongside Andrew Millison\, the course’s developer.\n \nFor more information and to register see:\nhttps://pace.oregonstate.edu/catalog/permaculture-rainwater-harvesting-online-course
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/online-rainwater-harvesting-course/
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