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SUMMARY:Grassland Restoration Workshop utilizing water-harvesting\, erosion-control strategies at Buenos Aires Wildlife Refuge\, Altar Valley\, Arizona
DESCRIPTION:  \nSee the flyer for details.\nStrategies we will teach and build include: rock-mulch rundowns\, one-rock dams\, sheet flow collectors (media lunas horns down)\, sheet flow spreaders (media lunas horns up)\, and plug and spread – all of these are explained with case studies in the full-color edition “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, Volume 2\, 2nd Edition“. \nThese strategies work well in rural\, suburban\, and urban settings. \nRegister at avcarestorationworkshop.eventbrite.com.  \n  \nBe prepared to be outdoors all day\, dress accordingly. Bring gloves and simple hand tools such as pointed shovel if you have them. Otherwise we’ll have extra.\nAlso bring water and the lunch and snacks you’ll need throughout the day.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/grassland-restoration-workshop-utilizing-water-harvesting-erosion-control-strategies-at-buenos-aires-wildlife-refuge-altar-valley-arizona/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20250316T090000
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SUMMARY:Guided Water-Harvesting Home & Neighborhood Block Tour with Brad Lancaster – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: 9am – 11am\, Sunday\, March 16\, 2025 \nWHERE: 813 N. 9th Avenue\, Tucson\, AZ 85705 \nCOST: $15 per person. Must pay/register in advance. No-shows cannot be refunded.\nLimited number of spaces. First paid\, first served. \nSOLD OUT. \nCheck back on this Events page for future tours.\nWe regularly do fall tours and a late winter tour. \nCome tour with the guy who wrote the books on water harvesting and more! \nBrad Lancaster\, author of the just released\, full-color\, revised editions of his award-winning books “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, Volumes 1 and 2” will guide this tour of he and his brother’s family’s water-harvesting & landscape design award-winning 1/8th-acre urban property and surrounding block of the neighborhood. \n100\,000 gallons of rain and stormwater is harvested annually on the property and in the adjoining public right-of-way. You’ll see examples of: \n• an integrated “tiny house” where a one-car garage was converted into a cottage or “garottage” that passive heats and cools itself for free with well-designed winter sun access & summer shading. 75% of its building materials were salvaged from the waste stream;\n• solar cooking\, solar water heating\, and solar power;\n• legal & inexpensive site-built composting toilets\, which helped legalize such toilets state-wide;\n• organic gardens getting 95+% of their irrigation needs met by harvested rainwater;\n• inexpensive gravity-fed rainwater harvesting systems providing safe & delicious rainwater for all domestic needs including drinking – with no expensive pumps or mechanical filtration systems;\n• extensive gravity-fed greywater harvesting systems turning “waste” waters into resource waters.\n• how a joyous 20 plus-years of car-free life has been possible (cargo bicycle is key)\, and saves over $8\,000 annually \nIn the neighborhood part of the tour you’ll see:\n• water-harvesting traffic-calming features that helped turn a dangerous streets into welcoming bicycle boulevards\,\n• street-runoff harvesting strategies that use street runoff to freely irrigate street trees and control flooding – and new evolutions and improvements on these strategies\n• learn how these once “pre-legal” street runoff-harvesting strategies were legalized\, rebated\, and mandated\n• native food forests doubling as wildlife and pollinator corridors that canopy over public foot paths\,\n• how an annual neighborhood rain and tree planting effort has resulted in the planting of over 1\,500 trees and hundreds of understory plants in the neighborhood\n• how a county grant helped pay for water-harvesting strategies harvesting over 1 million gallons of annual stormwater in and along the streets\n• how a neighborhood-organized Neighborhood Foresters program is training up the neighborhood to steward these features and is implementing more.\n• public art & other strategies reclaiming the commons for more life! \n  \nBrad will also be selling (at deep discount) & signing copies of the newly released & revised\, full-color editions of his award-winning books; and Plant the Rain t-shirts\, caps\, and stickers. \n  \n  \nFor self-guided water tours in Tucson see: \nhttps://www.harvestingrainwater.com/tour/ \n  \n  \nHere is a video of a 2016 tour of my place (more evolutions have since occurred)…
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/29932/
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SUMMARY:Community planting of new street-side\, water-harvesting basins in the public right-of-way of Dunbar/Spring neighborhood – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: 7am – 10am\, Saturday\, April 19\, 2025 \nWHERE: 224 W. 2nd Street\, Tucson\, AZ \n\n\nCome help us plant six new street-side\, water-harvesting\, eddy basins along 2nd Street (and University Blvd) — an installation in the public commons\, planted and stewarded by the participating public. \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\nDate: Saturday\, April 19\, 2025.\nThe stormwater eddy basins (each having over 4\,500-gallon annual capacity) are being wrapped up now – so now we can plant. Got to plant the rain before we plant the plants! \nTime: 7:00 am for a planting demonstration led by Brad Lancaster\, 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.\nEnd time of ten is approximate (with a good showing of folks we’ll likely finish up early). \nCost: FREE—plus your planting help \nMeeting spot:\n224 W. 2nd Street\nFive of the six basins are within a half block of one another on 2nd Street. The one on University Blvd is at 40 W. University Blvd—we’ll do that one last\n\n \nCome join us in planting native shade trees\, understory vegetation\, wildflowers\, and seed 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. \nThis 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 reduce water consumption as we reduce downstream flooding we naturally bioremediate/filter pollutants\, and help indirectly and directly recharge our groundwater. Thus far this annual event has resulted in over 1\,700 trees being planted in our neighborhood/waterhood\, thousands 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! \nThanks to Little John Excavating for doing the basin excavation\, Churchman Sand & Gravel for the catalina granite rock\, and Dryland Design for doing the excellent rockwork. \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\nALSO COME TO OUR next planting event in the West University neighborhood in one to two weeks.\nDetails coming soon \n \nFor info and photos from past plantings see here \n  \nFor more info on our Annual Neighborhood Rain\, Tree\, & Food Forest Planting see here \n  \nFor more info on these and many other water harvesting strategies\, check out the full-color\, revised editions of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond available at deep discount direct from the author Brad Lancaster. \n \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/community-planting-of-new-street-side-water-harvesting-basins-in-the-public-right-of-way-of-dunbar-spring-neighborhood-tucson-az/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20250419T130000
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SUMMARY:Arizona Illustrated Native Plants Screening & Panel - Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHERE: ENR2 building\, University of Arizona\, Tucson\, AZ \n  \nBrad Lancaster will be part of the screening’s panel moderated by Tony Paniagua. \nMore info in the link below. \nwww.azpm.org/plants
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/arizona-illustrated-native-plants-screening-panel-tucson-az/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20250427T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20250427T100000
DTSTAMP:20250424T225918Z
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SUMMARY:Community planting of new street-side\, water-harvesting basins in the public rights-of-ways of Dunbar/Spring & West University neighborhoods – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: 7am – 10am\, Sunday\, April 27\, 2025 \nWHERE: We start 7am on the south (2nd Street) side of 902 N. 10th Avenue in the Dunbar/Spring neighborhood.\nThen around 8am we plan to plant a basin on the west (2nd Ave) side of 612 E. 2nd Street in the West University neighborhood. \n\n\nCome help us plant two large new street-side\, water-harvesting\, eddy basins — installations in the public commons\, planted and stewarded by the participating public. \nThis planting of rain\, trees\, understory\, & wildflowers is occurring in the Dunbar/Spring & West University neighborhoods\, 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\nDate: Sunday\, April 27\, 2025.\nThe stormwater eddy basins (each having over 4\,500-gallon annual capacity) are being wrapped up now – so now we can plant. Got to plant the rain before we plant the plants! \nTime: 7:00 am for a planting demonstration led by Brad Lancaster and community planting\, then we’ll keep going to the next basin. 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 ten is approximate (with a good showing of folks we’ll likely finish up early). \nCost: FREE—plus your planting help \nMeeting spot:\nSouth side of 902 N. 10th Avenue\nin the Dunbar/Spring neighborhood\nThen with that site planted we will move to the west side of\n612 E. 2nd Street in the West University neighborhood\n\n \nCome join us in planting native shade trees\, understory vegetation\, wildflowers\, and seed 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.\nStreet trees that shade up to 75% of the street’s surface can also cool summer neighborhood temperatures by up to 20ºF. \nThis 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 reduce water consumption as we reduce downstream flooding we naturally bioremediate/filter pollutants\, and help indirectly and directly recharge our groundwater. Thus far this annual event has resulted in over 1\,700 trees being planted in our neighborhood/waterhood\, thousands 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! \nThanks to Little John Excavating for doing the basin excavation\, Churchman Sand & Gravel for the catalina granite rock\, and Dryland Design for doing the excellent rockwork. \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\nALSO COME TO OUR next planting event in the West University neighborhood in one to two weeks.\nDetails coming soon \n \nFor info and photos from past plantings see here \n  \nFor more info on our Annual Neighborhood Rain\, Tree\, & Food Forest Planting see here \n  \nFor more info on these and many other water harvesting strategies\, check out the full-color\, revised editions of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond available at deep discount direct from the author Brad Lancaster. \n \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/community-planting-of-new-street-side-water-harvesting-basins-in-the-public-rights-of-ways-of-dunbar-spring-west-university-neighborhoods-tucson-az/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20250508T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20250508T193000
DTSTAMP:20250503T165210Z
CREATED:20250430T230843Z
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SUMMARY:Brad Lancaster water-harvesting presentation followed by Q and A and book signing - Sedona\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:Prior to Brad’s talk at 6pm\, there will be a screening of Episode 4: Country roads\, City Roads” from the 5-part documentary series “Thinking Like Water“.\nThis episode shows how water-whisperer Bill Zeedyk and those he has mentored are transforming dirt roads\, paved roads\, and driveways that dehydrate and devegetate the land\, into roads that rehydrate and revegetate the land\, while also reducing flooding\, erosion\, and costs of the roads themselves.\n \nBrad’s presentation then starts at 7pm\n \nPlanting the rain to grow abundance\nSimple and effective ways to create true oases that enhance the health and hydrology of our communities\n\nThis dynamic presentation shares patterns and strategies to harvest\, integrate\, and enliven free local resources—such as rain-\, grey-\, and stormwaters; along with 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 and transformed 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. \nYou’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; 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. \nThis 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 fertile shade\, and more—to live as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!\n(Duration: 1 hour plus Q&A and book signing afterward) \n\nCost for the just screening and Brad’s talk is $22 \nMore info and tickets here \n  \nLocation:\nSedonya\nConscious Living Center\n120 Deer Trail Drive\nSedona\, AZ 86336 \n\nTel. (832) 748-0777
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/brad-lancaster-water-harvesting-presentation-followed-by-q-and-a-and-book-signing-sedona-az/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20250510T060000
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SUMMARY:Community planting of new street-side\, water-harvesting basins in the public commons of West University neighborhood & Catalina Park – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: 6am – 10am\, Saturday\, May 10\, 2025 \nWHERE: We start 6am on the northwest corner of Catalina Park (5th Avenue and 1st Street)\nthen head to 3rd Ave and 2nd Street\,\nand finally 3rd Ave and 1st Street. \n\n\nCome help us plant six large new street-side\, water-harvesting\, eddy basins — installations in the public commons\, planted and stewarded by the participating public. \nThis planting of rain\, trees\, understory\, & wildflowers is occurring in the West University 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. \nThe stormwater eddy basins (each having over 5\,000-gallon annual capacity) are being wrapped up now – so now we can plant.\nGot to plant the rain before we plant the plants! \n\nWe begin with a 6:00 am to beat the heat with a planting demonstration led by Brad Lancaster and community planting\, then we’ll keep going to the next basin.\nThe demonstration will show you how to plant the rain to maximize its potential\, how to plant food-bearing native trees and understory plants 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 ten is approximate (with a good showing of folks we’ll likely finish up early). \nCost: FREE—plus your planting help \nMeeting spot:\nSoutheast corner of 1st Street and 5th Avenue\nin the West University neighborhood \n  \nCome join us in planting native shade trees\, understory vegetation\, wildflowers\, and seed within or beside water-harvesting earthworks in the public rights-of-way.\nThe idea is to plant native food-producing\, flood-controlling\, wildlife-habitat-producing\, beautiful\, air- and water-filtering\, living air conditioners.\nStreet trees that shade up to 75% of the street’s surface can also cool summer neighborhood temperatures by up to 20ºF. \nThis 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 reduce water consumption as we reduce downstream flooding we naturally bioremediate/filter pollutants\, and help indirectly and directly recharge our groundwater. Thus far this annual event has resulted in over 1\,700 trees being planted in our neighborhood/waterhood\, thousands 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! \nThanks to Little John Excavating for doing the basin excavation\, Churchman Sand & Gravel for the catalina granite rock\, and Dryland Design for doing addition excavation plus the excellent rock work. \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  \nFor info and photos from past plantings see here \n  \nFor more info on our Annual Neighborhood Rain\, Tree\, & Food Forest Planting see here \n  \nFor more info on these and many other water harvesting strategies\, check out the full-color\, revised editions of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond available at deep discount direct from the author Brad Lancaster. \n \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/community-planting-of-new-street-side-water-harvesting-basins-in-the-public-commons-of-west-university-neighborhood-catalina-park-tucson-az-tucson-az/
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SUMMARY:2025 International Master Gardener Conference
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual conference\, so you can attend from anywhere. \nGet all the details including how to register in the link below: \nhttps://www.imgc2025.com/ \n  \nBrad Lancaster will be giving a presentation on Day 3 of the conference. See below for presentation description… \n  \nSince 1993\, Brad has operated a successful permaculture and regenerative design\, consulting\, and education business rooted in integrated\, sustainable approaches to landscape design\, planning\, and daily living. His journey into this work began with a deep fascination for how we can live in better harmony with our environment—especially in drylands like the Sonoran Desert\, where he lives. \n \nThis session will include how he got into working with these natural elements—how observing the intense desert climate sparked a passion for harvesting water\, capturing shade\, and harnessing the sun to create comfort\, beauty\, and abundance. Through his work and lifestyle\, he has developed many fun innovations and shared countless adventures in collaborating with the environment. \n\nIntegrated Sun- & Shade-Harvesting for Buildings\, Neighborhoods\, Gardens\, and Landscapes will explore simple\, cost-effective strategies for harnessing winter sun and summer shade to improve comfort\, conserve resources\, and boost garden productivity. Topics will include seasonal sun paths\, ideal tree and building orientation\, passive solar design\, optimizing roof overhangs\, integrating wind and water strategies\, solar cooking\, solar rights\, and retrofitting structures and landscapes for greater energy efficiency. Along the way\, you’ll be inspired by the power of working with the elements rather than against them.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/2025-international-master-gardener-conference/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20250923T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20250923T190000
DTSTAMP:20250529T000208Z
CREATED:20250416T174426Z
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SUMMARY:Santa Fe Livability Speaker Series\, Session 3\, with Brad Lancaster
DESCRIPTION:WHERE: \nSITE Santa Fe\, 1606 Paseo de Peralta\, Santa Fe\, NM 87501 \nMore info to come\, along with other events with Brad in Santa Fe Sept 22-24. \nJoin Brad Lancaster\, author of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond and co-founder of NeighborhoodForesters.org\, for an inspiring discussion on how simple\, low-cost strategies can transform our homes\, neighborhoods\, and community into thriving oases of abundance. Brad will share practical ways to work with natural systems—harvesting rainwater\, reusing greywater\, growing shade\, building fertile soil\, and revitalizing public spaces—to create healthier\, more resilient environments. \nThrough compelling real-world examples\, you’ll see how hand-built structures have restored wetlands\, how sun and shade are harnessed to power homes naturally\, and how stormwater can be redirected to grow beauty\, food\, and community. Brad will highlight how these regenerative practices can shape local development and the land development code. By incentivizing green infrastructure and integrating water-harvesting landscapes into urban design\, these approaches support long-term water security\, climate resilience\, and vibrant public spaces. \nIt’s more than a presentation—it’s a call to action and a practical roadmap to engage and partner with your natural surroundings and to further embed sustainability into the city’s growth and development. Come learn how to turn scarcity i \n  \nMore info at the series at: \nhttps://www.livabilityspeakerseries.com/ \n  \n  \n\n\n\n \n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/santa-fe-livability-speaker-series-session-3-with-brad-lancaster/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251013T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251018T170000
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SUMMARY:Water Harvesting Design Certification Course – Tucson\, Arizona
DESCRIPTION:For more info on this Watershed Management Group course\, plus how to register see: \nhttps://watershedmg.org/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-october-2025 \nBrad will teach October 13 or 1 4\, and he will also offer a guided tour of his place and some of his neighborhood’s rain-irrigated native food forest work\, Sunday October 19th.\nSign up for the tour once it is posted on Brad’s Events page. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-course-tucson-arizona-9/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251019T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251019T100000
DTSTAMP:20250925T143019Z
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SUMMARY:Guided Water-Harvesting Home & Neighborhood Block Tour with Brad Lancaster – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: 8am – 10am\, Sunday\, October 19\, 2025 \nWHERE: 813 N. 9th Avenue\, Tucson\, AZ 85705 \nCOST: $15 per person. Must pay/register in advance. No-shows cannot be refunded.\nLimited number of spaces. First paid\, first served. \n  \n\n\n$15.00 \nBuy now \n\n\n  \nCome tour with the guy who wrote the books on water harvesting and more! \nBrad Lancaster\, author of the just released\, full-color\, revised editions of his award-winning books “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, Volumes 1 and 2” will guide this tour of he and his brother’s family’s water-harvesting & landscape design award-winning 1/8th-acre urban property and surrounding block of the neighborhood. \n100\,000 gallons of rain and stormwater is harvested annually on the property and in the adjoining public right-of-way. You’ll see examples of: \n• an integrated “tiny house” where a one-car garage was converted into a cottage or “garottage” that passive heats and cools itself for free with well-designed winter sun access & summer shading. 75% of its building materials were salvaged from the waste stream;\n• solar cooking\, solar water heating\, and solar power;\n• legal & inexpensive site-built composting toilets\, which helped legalize such toilets state-wide;\n• organic gardens getting 95+% of their irrigation needs met by harvested rainwater;\n• inexpensive gravity-fed rainwater harvesting systems providing safe & delicious rainwater for all domestic needs including drinking – with no expensive pumps or mechanical filtration systems;\n• extensive gravity-fed greywater harvesting systems turning “waste” waters into resource waters.\n• how a joyous 20 plus-years of car-free life has been possible (cargo bicycle is key)\, and saves over $8\,000 annually \nIn the neighborhood part of the tour you’ll see:\n• water-harvesting traffic-calming features that helped turn a dangerous streets into welcoming bicycle boulevards\,\n• street-runoff harvesting strategies that use street runoff to freely irrigate street trees and control flooding – and new evolutions and improvements on these strategies\n• learn how these once “pre-legal” street runoff-harvesting strategies were legalized\, rebated\, and mandated\n• native food forests doubling as wildlife and pollinator corridors that canopy over public foot paths\,\n• how an annual neighborhood rain and tree planting effort has resulted in the planting of over 1\,500 trees and hundreds of understory plants in the neighborhood\n• how a county grant helped pay for water-harvesting strategies harvesting over 1 million gallons of annual stormwater in and along the streets\n• how a neighborhood-organized Neighborhood Foresters program is training up the neighborhood to steward these features and is implementing more.\n• public art & other strategies reclaiming the commons for more life! \n  \nBrad will also be selling (at deep discount) & signing copies of\n• the newly released & revised\, full-color editions of his award-winning books \n• the new SPANISH EDITION of his book Cosecha de agua de lluvia para zonas áridas y más allá \n• Plant the Rain t-shirts\, caps\, and stickers \n• Siembra la lluvia caps and stickers \n  \n  \nFor self-guided water tours in Tucson see: \nhttps://www.harvestingrainwater.com/tour/ \n  \n  \nHere is a video of a 2016 tour of my place (more evolutions have since occurred)…
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/guided-water-harvesting-home-neighborhood-block-tour-with-brad-lancaster-tucson-az-11/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251103T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251108T170000
DTSTAMP:20250405T192340Z
CREATED:20250405T192139Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250405T192340Z
UID:30785-1762156800-1762621200@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Water Harvesting Design Certification Course – Tucson\, Arizona
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more info on this Watershed Management Group course\, plus how to register see: \nhttps://watershedmg.org/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-november-2025 \n  \nBrad will teach November 3 or 4\, and he will also offer a guided tour of his place and some of his neighborhood’s rain-irrigated native food forest work\, Sunday November 9th.\nSign up for the tour once it is posted on Brad’s Events page.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-course-tucson-arizona-10/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251109T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251109T110000
DTSTAMP:20251030T211241Z
CREATED:20250405T191000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251030T211241Z
UID:30779-1762678800-1762686000@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Guided Water-Harvesting Home & Neighborhood Block Tour with Brad Lancaster – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: 9am – 11am\, Sunday\, November 9\, 2025 \nWHERE: 813 N. 9th Avenue\, Tucson\, AZ 85705 \nCOST: $15 per person. Must pay/register in advance. No-shows cannot be refunded.\nLimited number of spaces. First paid\, first served. \n  \n\n\n$15.00 \nBuy now \n\n\n  \nCome tour with the guy who wrote the books on water harvesting and more! \nBrad Lancaster\, author of the just released\, full-color\, revised editions of his award-winning books “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, Volumes 1 and 2” will guide this tour of he and his brother’s family’s water-harvesting & landscape design award-winning 1/8th-acre urban property and surrounding block of the neighborhood. \n100\,000 gallons of rain and stormwater is harvested annually on the property and in the adjoining public right-of-way. You’ll see examples of: \n• an integrated “tiny house” where a one-car garage was converted into a cottage or “garottage” that passive heats and cools itself for free with well-designed winter sun access & summer shading. 75% of its building materials were salvaged from the waste stream;\n• solar cooking\, solar water heating\, and solar power;\n• legal & inexpensive site-built composting toilets\, which helped legalize such toilets state-wide;\n• organic gardens getting 95+% of their irrigation needs met by harvested rainwater;\n• inexpensive gravity-fed rainwater harvesting systems providing safe & delicious rainwater for all domestic needs including drinking – with no expensive pumps or mechanical filtration systems;\n• extensive gravity-fed greywater harvesting systems turning “waste” waters into resource waters.\n• how a joyous 20 plus-years of car-free life has been possible (cargo bicycle is key)\, and saves over $8\,000 annually \nIn the neighborhood part of the tour you’ll see:\n• water-harvesting traffic-calming features that helped turn a dangerous streets into welcoming bicycle boulevards\,\n• street-runoff harvesting strategies that use street runoff to freely irrigate street trees and control flooding – and new evolutions and improvements on these strategies\n• learn how these once “pre-legal” street runoff-harvesting strategies were legalized\, rebated\, and mandated\n• native food forests doubling as wildlife and pollinator corridors that canopy over public foot paths\,\n• how an annual neighborhood rain and tree planting effort has resulted in the planting of over 1\,500 trees and hundreds of understory plants in the neighborhood\n• how a county grant helped pay for water-harvesting strategies harvesting over 1 million gallons of annual stormwater in and along the streets\n• how a neighborhood-organized Neighborhood Foresters program is training up the neighborhood to steward these features and is implementing more.\n• public art & other strategies reclaiming the commons for more life! \n  \nBrad will also be selling (at deep discount) & signing copies of\n• the newly released & revised\, full-color editions of his award-winning books \n• the new SPANISH EDITION of his book Cosecha de agua de lluvia para zonas áridas y más allá \n• Plant the Rain t-shirts\, caps\, and stickers \n• Siembra la lluvia caps and stickers \n  \n  \nFor self-guided water tours in Tucson see: \nhttps://www.harvestingrainwater.com/tour/ \n  \n  \nHere is a video of a 2016 tour of my place (more evolutions have since occurred)… \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcAMXm9zITg&t=15s \n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/guided-water-harvesting-home-neighborhood-block-tour-with-brad-lancaster-tucson-az-12/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260302
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260315
DTSTAMP:20251114T145947Z
CREATED:20251114T145947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251114T145947Z
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SUMMARY:Water Harvesting Design Certification Course – Tucson\, Arizona
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more info on this Watershed Management Group course\, plus how to register see: \nhttps://watershedmg.org/events/water-harvesting-design-certification-march-2026 \n  \nBrad will teach March 9\, and he will also offer a guided tour of his place and some of his neighborhood’s rain-irrigated native food forest work\, Sunday March 15th.\nSign up for the tour once it is posted on Brad’s Events page.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-course-tucson-arizona-11/
LOCATION:watershed management group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20260315T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20260315T100000
DTSTAMP:20260207T222051Z
CREATED:20251114T150735Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260207T222051Z
UID:36977-1773561600-1773568800@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Guided Water-Harvesting Home & Neighborhood Block Tour with Brad Lancaster – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: 8am – 10am\, Sunday\, March 15\, 2026 \nWHERE: 813 N. 9th Avenue\, Tucson\, AZ 85705 \nCOST: $15 per person. Must pay/register in advance. No-shows cannot be refunded.\nLimited number of spaces. First paid\, first served. \n  \n \n\n$15.00 \n    Buy now\n  \n\n  \nCome tour with the guy who wrote the books on water harvesting and more! \nBrad Lancaster\, author of the just released\, full-color\, revised editions of his award-winning books “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, Volumes 1 and 2” will guide this tour of he and his brother’s family’s water-harvesting & landscape design award-winning 1/8th-acre urban property and surrounding block of the neighborhood. \n100\,000 gallons of rain and stormwater is harvested annually on the property and in the adjoining public right-of-way. You’ll see examples of: \n• an integrated “tiny house” where a one-car garage was converted into a cottage or “garottage” that passive heats and cools itself for free with well-designed winter sun access & summer shading. 75% of its building materials were salvaged from the waste stream;\n• solar cooking\, solar water heating\, and solar power;\n• legal & inexpensive site-built composting toilets\, which helped legalize such toilets state-wide;\n• organic gardens getting 95+% of their irrigation needs met by harvested rainwater;\n• inexpensive gravity-fed rainwater harvesting systems providing safe & delicious rainwater for all domestic needs including drinking – with no expensive pumps or mechanical filtration systems;\n• extensive gravity-fed greywater harvesting systems turning “waste” waters into resource waters.\n• how a joyous 20 plus-years of car-free life has been possible (cargo bicycle is key)\, and saves over $8\,000 annually \nIn the neighborhood part of the tour you’ll see:\n• water-harvesting traffic-calming features that helped turn a dangerous streets into welcoming bicycle boulevards\,\n• street-runoff harvesting strategies that use street runoff to freely irrigate street trees and control flooding – and new evolutions and improvements on these strategies\n• learn how these once “pre-legal” street runoff-harvesting strategies were legalized\, rebated\, and mandated\n• native food forests doubling as wildlife and pollinator corridors that canopy over public foot paths\,\n• how an annual neighborhood rain and tree planting effort has resulted in the planting of over 1\,800 trees and thousands 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\n• the newly released & revised\, full-color editions of his award-winning books \n• the new SPANISH EDITION of his book Cosecha de agua de lluvia para zonas áridas y más allá \n• Plant the Rain t-shirts\, caps\, and stickers \n• Siembra la lluvia caps and stickers \n  \n  \nFor self-guided water tours in Tucson see: \nhttps://www.harvestingrainwater.com/tour/ \n  \n  \nHere is a video of a 2016 tour of my place (more evolutions have since occurred)… \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcAMXm9zITg&t=15s
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/guided-water-harvesting-home-neighborhood-block-tour-with-brad-lancaster-tucson-az-13/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20260328T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20260328T100000
DTSTAMP:20260326T220205Z
CREATED:20260326T215834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260326T220205Z
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SUMMARY:7th annual community planting of new street-side\, water-harvesting basins in the public rights-of-ways of the West University neighborhood – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: 6am – 10am\, Saturday\, March 28\, 2026 \nWHERE: 848 N. 3rd Avenue\,\nDepending on how many folks show up\, and how quick we plant\, we may also continue to plant basins at 1007 N. 3rd Ave – (you’ll see us on 1st Street just west of 3rd Ave). \n\n\nCome help us plant seven new street-side\, water-harvesting\, eddy basins  — installations in the public commons\, planted and stewarded by the participating public.\nWe plant the rain before we plant the plants! \nThis planting of rain\, trees\, understory\, & wildflowers is occurring in the West University neighborhood (which is within the same watershed as the Dunbar/Spring neighborhood – so we are all part of the same larger and interconnected waterhood)\,\nbut 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. \nNOTE: there will be a film crew documenting the planting \n\n  \nWe’ll start with a brief planting demonstration led by Brad Lancaster then plant. 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 ten is approximate (with a good showing of folks we’ll likely finish up early). \nCost: FREE—plus your planting help \nCome join us in planting native shade trees\, understory vegetation\, wildflowers\, and seed 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.\nStreet trees that shade up to 75% of the street’s surface can also cool summer neighborhood temperatures by up to 20ºF. \nThis 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 reduce water consumption as we reduce downstream flooding we naturally bioremediate/filter pollutants\, and help indirectly and directly recharge our groundwater. Thus far this annual event has resulted in over 1\,800 trees being planted in our neighborhood/waterhood\, thousands of understory plants\, and contributed to annually harvesting over one and a quarter million gallons of stormwater that used to go to the stormdrain—let’s keep going! \nThanks to Little John Excavating for doing the basin excavation\, Churchman Sand & Gravel for catalina granite rock\, Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Foresters for the mesquite branches\, and Dryland Design for doing the excellent rockwork and logwork. \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  \nNEXT PLANTING\nThree additional street-side basins on 1st Street are being completed now. Once done we’ll schedule a community planting for them – so check back for date and details. \n  \nFor info and photos from past plantings see here \n  \nFor more info on our Annual Neighborhood Rain\, Tree\, & Food Forest Planting see here \n\n\n  \nFor more info & photos on the plants we plant see here \n  \n\n\nFor more info on these and many other water harvesting strategies\, check out the full-color\, revised editions of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond available at deep discount direct from the author Brad Lancaster.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/7th-annual-community-planting-of-new-street-side-water-harvesting-basins-in-the-public-rights-of-ways-of-the-west-university-neighborhood-tucson-az/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20260411T063000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20260411T100000
DTSTAMP:20260405T032806Z
CREATED:20260405T032806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260405T032806Z
UID:38679-1775889000-1775901600@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:7th annual community planting of new street-side\, water-harvesting basins PART 2 in the public rights-of-ways of the West University neighborhood – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: 6:30am – 10am\, Saturday\, April 11\, 2026 \nWHERE: 437 E. 1st Street\,\nWhen we finish planting the two basins at that site we’ll plant the last basin at 502 E. 2nd Street \n\n\nCome help us plant three new street-side\, water-harvesting\, eddy basins  — installations in the public commons\, planted and stewarded by the participating public.\nWe plant the rain before we plant the plants! \nThis planting of rain\, trees\, understory\, & wildflowers is occurring in the West University neighborhood (which is within the same watershed as the Dunbar/Spring neighborhood – so we are all part of the same larger and interconnected waterhood)\,\nbut 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. \nNOTE: there may be a film crew documenting the planting \n\n  \nWe’ll start with a brief planting demonstration led by Brad Lancaster then plant. 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 ten is approximate (with a good showing of folks we’ll likely finish up early as we did at the last planting). \nCost: FREE—plus your planting help \nCome join us in planting native shade trees\, understory vegetation\, wildflowers\, and seed 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.\nStreet trees that shade up to 75% of the street’s surface can also cool summer neighborhood temperatures by up to 20ºF. \nThis 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 reduce water consumption as we reduce downstream flooding we naturally bioremediate/filter pollutants\, and help indirectly and directly recharge our groundwater. Thus far this annual event has resulted in over 1\,800 trees being planted in our neighborhood/waterhood\, thousands of understory plants\, and contributed to annually harvesting over one and a quarter million gallons of stormwater that used to go to the stormdrain—let’s keep going! \nThanks to Little John Excavating for doing the basin excavation\, Churchman Sand & Gravel for catalina granite rock\, Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Foresters for the mesquite branches\, and Dryland Design for doing the excellent rockwork and logwork. \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).
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/7th-annual-community-planting-of-new-street-side-water-harvesting-basins-part-2-in-the-public-rights-of-ways-of-the-west-university-neighborhood-tucson-az/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20260422T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20260422T160000
DTSTAMP:20260414T224426Z
CREATED:20260409T192446Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260414T224426Z
UID:38699-1776866400-1776873600@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Celebración del DÍA DE LA TIERRA\, Huerto Roma Verde\, Mexico City\, Mexico
DESCRIPTION:Celebración del DÍA DE LA TIERRA\, tour\, and discussions at HUERTO ROMA VERDE – an urban garden\n\nOpen to public. \n  \n\nHUERTO ROMA VERDE\nJalapa 234\, Centro Urbano Pdte. Juárez\, Roma Sur\, \nAlc. Cuauhtémoc\, 06760 Ciudad de México\n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/38699/
LOCATION:Jalapa 234\, Centro Urbano Pdte. Juárez\, Roma Sur\,  Alc. Cuauhtémoc\, 06760 Ciudad de México
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20260423T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20260423T123000
DTSTAMP:20260414T224253Z
CREATED:20260409T191748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260414T224253Z
UID:38696-1776942000-1776947400@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Book release\, signing\, & presentation at UNAM - National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City\, Mexico
DESCRIPTION:Brad Lancaster\, author of “Cosecha de agua de lluvia para zonas áridas y más allá“; and distinguished panelists including Rosa Morales\, Directora\, YZ Proyecdtos de Dearrollo A.C.; Mtra. Flavia Tudela Rivadeneyra\, Coordinadora del Colegio de Geografía\, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras UNAM; Mtro. Eduardo Vázquez\, Director General\, Agua Capital; Mtro. Jorge Alberto Arriaga Medina\, Coordinador Ejectivo\, Red del Agua UNAM; Mtro. Delfín Montañana\, Director de Educación Socioambiental y Sensibilización\, Isla Urbana; Lic. Jennifer White\, Directora General\, Isla Urbana will speak at the book release\, which will be followed by a book sales and signings with Brad Lancaster. \n  \nThis event will be recorded. \n \n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/book-release-signing-presentation-at-unam-national-autonomous-university-of-mexico-in-mexico-city-mexico/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20260510T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20260510T140000
DTSTAMP:20260509T201353Z
CREATED:20260509T201147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260509T201353Z
UID:38818-1778416200-1778421600@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Re-hydrating and Re-enlivening Our Communities with Neighborhood Rain-watered Native Food Forestry - virtual presentation
DESCRIPTION:Re-hydrating and Re-enlivening Our Communities with Rain-watered Neighborhood Food Forestry\n\nThis presentation is about neighborhood forestry efforts empowering citizens\, contractors\, & policy makers to effectively plant the rain and native food-bearing vegetation to grow vibrant and resilient abundance where they live\, work\, and play. Then train them up and support them with the education\, guidance\, collaborations\, and policy that enable them to better steward the plantings for decades to come. Dramatic results include cooler neighborhoods\, healthier eating\, a revitalization of indigenous cuisine\, deeper connections with people and place\, reduced flooding\, skill building\, greater soil fertility\, and more beauty and joy. The strategies and practices are accessible to all and most are free or cost no more than the price of a shovel. \n  \nGet more info & register at: \nhttps://www.globalearthrepairconvergence.com/
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/re-hydrating-and-re-enlivening-our-communities-with-neighborhood-rain-watered-native-food-forestry-virtual-presentation/
LOCATION:Global Earth Repair Convergence
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260626
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260628
DTSTAMP:20260509T201435Z
CREATED:20260425T134046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260509T201435Z
UID:38754-1782432000-1782604799@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Sustainable Urban Landscape Conference - Oklahoma City\, Oklahoma
DESCRIPTION:Brad Lancaster will give two keynote presentations at this event. \nMore information at:\nhttps://www.okcbeautiful.com/sustainable-urban-landscape-conference
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/sustainable-urban-landscape-conference-oklahoma-city-oklahoma/
LOCATION:Metro Tech Springlake Campus\, Oklahoma City\, Oklahoma
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260630
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260701
DTSTAMP:20260513T201849Z
CREATED:20260513T201726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260513T201849Z
UID:38834-1782777600-1782863999@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:More Life Less Lawn - virtual event
DESCRIPTION:Brad will give the following virtual presentation for this multi-month Less Lawn More Life program… \nTurning Drains Into Sponges and Water Scarcity Into Water Abundance \nThis inspiring presentation shares eight universal principles of water harvesting along with simple strategies that turn water scarcity into water abundance\, and floods into opportunity. 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. Greywater harvesting is the process of directing water from household sink\, bathtub\, shower\, and washing-machine drains into the soils of the landscape where the water is naturally filtered and reused to generate more on-site resources. The two work hand in hand\, and can reduce our water consumption by 30 to 70%! 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.\n(Duration: 40 minutes plus Q&A) \n  \n  \nFor more on the multi-month event/program see: \nhttps://www.lesslawnmorelife.com/ \n  \nFor more on Brad’s webinar see: \nhttps://www.joinwildr.com/events/llml-rainwater
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/more-life-less-lawn/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261005
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261018
DTSTAMP:20260426T032145Z
CREATED:20260426T032145Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260426T032145Z
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SUMMARY:Water Harvesting Design Certification Course – Tucson\, Arizona
DESCRIPTION:For more info on this Watershed Management Group course\, plus how to register see: \nhttps://watershedmg.org/events/water-harvesting-design-certification-october-2026 \n  \nBrad will teach October 12\, and he will also offer a guided tour of his place and some of his neighborhood’s rain-irrigated native food forest work\, Sunday October 18th.\nSign up for the tour here.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-course-tucson-arizona-12/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20261018T080000
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SUMMARY:Guided Water-Harvesting Home & Neighborhood Block Tour with Brad Lancaster – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: 8am – 10am\, Sunday\, October 18\, 2026 \nWHERE: 813 N. 9th Avenue\, Tucson\, AZ 85705 \nCOST: $15 per person. Must pay/register in advance. No-shows cannot be refunded.\nLimited number of spaces. First paid\, first served. \n  \nI will post a BUY BUTTON here about a month before the event \n  \nCome tour with the guy who wrote the books on water harvesting and more! \nBrad Lancaster\, author of the just released\, full-color\, revised editions of his award-winning books “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, Volumes 1 and 2” will guide this tour of he and his brother’s family’s water-harvesting & landscape design award-winning 1/8th-acre urban property and surrounding block of the neighborhood. \n100\,000 gallons of rain and stormwater is harvested annually on the property and in the adjoining public right-of-way. You’ll see examples of: \n• an integrated “tiny house” where a one-car garage was converted into a cottage or “garottage” that passive heats and cools itself for free with well-designed winter sun access & summer shading. 75% of its building materials were salvaged from the waste stream;\n• solar cooking\, solar water heating\, and solar power;\n• legal & inexpensive site-built composting toilets\, which helped legalize such toilets state-wide;\n• organic gardens getting 95+% of their irrigation needs met by harvested rainwater;\n• inexpensive gravity-fed rainwater harvesting systems providing safe & delicious rainwater for all domestic needs including drinking – with no expensive pumps or mechanical filtration systems;\n• extensive gravity-fed greywater harvesting systems turning “waste” waters into resource waters.\n• how a joyous 20 plus-years of car-free life has been possible (cargo bicycle is key)\, and saves over $8\,000 annually \nIn the neighborhood part of the tour you’ll see:\n• water-harvesting traffic-calming features that helped turn a dangerous streets into welcoming bicycle boulevards\,\n• street-runoff harvesting strategies that use street runoff to freely irrigate street trees and control flooding – and new evolutions and improvements on these strategies\n• learn how these once “pre-legal” street runoff-harvesting strategies were legalized\, rebated\, and mandated\n• native food forests doubling as wildlife and pollinator corridors that canopy over public foot paths\,\n• how an annual neighborhood rain and tree planting effort has resulted in the planting of over 1\,800 trees and thousands 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\n• the newly released & revised\, full-color editions of his award-winning books \n• the new SPANISH EDITION of his book Cosecha de agua de lluvia para zonas áridas y más allá \n• Plant the Rain t-shirts\, caps\, and stickers \n• Siembra la lluvia caps and stickers \n  \n  \nFor self-guided water tours in Tucson see: \nhttps://www.harvestingrainwater.com/tour/ \n  \n  \nHere is a video of a 2016 tour of my place (more evolutions have since occurred)… \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcAMXm9zITg&t=15s
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/guided-water-harvesting-home-neighborhood-block-tour-with-brad-lancaster-tucson-az-14/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond":MAILTO:bradlank@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Water Harvesting Design Certification Course – Tucson\, Arizona
DESCRIPTION:For more info on this Watershed Management Group course\, plus how to register see: \nhttps://watershedmg.org/events/water-harvesting-design-certification-november-2026 \n  \nBrad will teach November 16\, and he will also offer a guided tour of his place and some of his neighborhood’s rain-irrigated native food forest work\, Sunday October 18th.\nSign up for the tour here.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-course-tucson-arizona-13/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20261122T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20261122T100000
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SUMMARY:Guided Water-Harvesting Home & Neighborhood Block Tour with Brad Lancaster – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: 8am – 10am\, Sunday\, November 22\, 2026 \nWHERE: 813 N. 9th Avenue\, Tucson\, AZ 85705 \nCOST: $15 per person. Must pay/register in advance. No-shows cannot be refunded.\nLimited number of spaces. First paid\, first served. \n  \nI will post a BUY BUTTON here about a month before the event \n  \nCome tour with the guy who wrote the books on water harvesting and more! \nBrad Lancaster\, author of the just released\, full-color\, revised editions of his award-winning books “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, Volumes 1 and 2” will guide this tour of he and his brother’s family’s water-harvesting & landscape design award-winning 1/8th-acre urban property and surrounding block of the neighborhood. \n100\,000 gallons of rain and stormwater is harvested annually on the property and in the adjoining public right-of-way. You’ll see examples of: \n• an integrated “tiny house” where a one-car garage was converted into a cottage or “garottage” that passive heats and cools itself for free with well-designed winter sun access & summer shading. 75% of its building materials were salvaged from the waste stream;\n• solar cooking\, solar water heating\, and solar power;\n• legal & inexpensive site-built composting toilets\, which helped legalize such toilets state-wide;\n• organic gardens getting 95+% of their irrigation needs met by harvested rainwater;\n• inexpensive gravity-fed rainwater harvesting systems providing safe & delicious rainwater for all domestic needs including drinking – with no expensive pumps or mechanical filtration systems;\n• extensive gravity-fed greywater harvesting systems turning “waste” waters into resource waters.\n• how a joyous 20 plus-years of car-free life has been possible (cargo bicycle is key)\, and saves over $8\,000 annually \nIn the neighborhood part of the tour you’ll see:\n• water-harvesting traffic-calming features that helped turn a dangerous streets into welcoming bicycle boulevards\,\n• street-runoff harvesting strategies that use street runoff to freely irrigate street trees and control flooding – and new evolutions and improvements on these strategies\n• learn how these once “pre-legal” street runoff-harvesting strategies were legalized\, rebated\, and mandated\n• native food forests doubling as wildlife and pollinator corridors that canopy over public foot paths\,\n• how an annual neighborhood rain and tree planting effort has resulted in the planting of over 1\,800 trees and thousands 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\n• the newly released & revised\, full-color editions of his award-winning books \n• the new SPANISH EDITION of his book Cosecha de agua de lluvia para zonas áridas y más allá \n• Plant the Rain t-shirts\, caps\, and stickers \n• Siembra la lluvia caps and stickers \n  \n  \nFor self-guided water tours in Tucson see: \nhttps://www.harvestingrainwater.com/tour/ \n  \n  \nHere is a video of a 2016 tour of my place (more evolutions have since occurred)… \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcAMXm9zITg&t=15s
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/guided-water-harvesting-home-neighborhood-block-tour-with-brad-lancaster-tucson-az-15/
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