Publications The Humanure Handbook – A Guide to Composting Human Manure, 4th edition, by Joseph Jenkins, 2019. A very informative, exhaustively researched, and entertaining book that will have you turning turds into tomatoes…
January 28, 2022
January 21, 2022
Plant your greywater as you shower to grow a fragrant, edible, privacy screen that also feeds & shelters chickens, goats, pollinators, and native song birds. Two drains, each to a different gravity-fed branched…
January 14, 2022
I list (in alphabetical order by country, state, and city) some of my favorite plant nurseries & the beginnings of a list of seed suppliers for various regions by the state in which…
January 12, 2022
Links to the ordinance are at the bottom of this page Recommendations to improve the ordinance and resources I think the City of Tucson’s current greywater-harvesting stub-out ordinance and guidelines are good, but…
January 7, 2022
The City of Tucson, Arizona, now mandates that all new homes install greywater-harvesting stub-outs at the time of construction. Tucson, Arizona, Greywater-Harvesting Stub-Out Ordinance See here for a description of a greywater-harvesting stub-out.…
January 4, 2022
Water Harvesting CalculationsWater Harvesting Calculations, Appendix 3 of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Vol. 1 Rainwater Harvesting Nomogram for Tucson, ArizonaThis diagram and a ruler can determine optimal sizes of rainwater tanks…
January 2, 2022
This inexpensive gravity-fed (no pumps or tanks) system uses common plumbing parts, and no expensive or hard-to-find valves. Plant your greywater before you plant your higher water use plants (think fruit trees)! That…
December 24, 2021
Don’t hoard rainwater in the rainy season – use it! And do so in multiple, integrated ways that enables the water to do more for you and produce greater abundance. This video is…
December 3, 2021
A water-harvesting overview highlighting some of the strategies implemented at the Lancaster homestead to harvest street runoff, roof runoff (with simple filtration), and greywater. See Brad’s award-winning books, Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and…
December 2, 2021
A short, sweet film featuring Greg Peterson of the Urban Farm, Ryan Wood of Watershed Management Group, Ken Singh of Singh Farms, and Brad Lancaster talking about place-based, community-building, common-sense solutions to Arizona’s…