Planting rain, community, & ecology in the hood. Discover how to create a vibrant, food-producing, and wildlife-friendly neighborhood native plant forest with free irrigation strategies and forested traffic calming. This video showcases how…
Enter some intro copy about this videoVan Clothier, co-author of “Let the Water Do the Work”, shares unique and effective strategies to affordably harvest stormwater & snow melt runoff from, and divert sediment…
Learn a simple trick for a quick and easy DIY drip irrigation system, perfect for discreet guerrilla growing. This method is ideal for watering plants on the go! Also discover how to fertilize…
Discover how to foster thriving urban spaces through practical strategies promoting affordable housing and strong community engagement. Learn how water-harvesting green infrastructure initiatives and passive sun and shade harvesting can contribute to sustainable…
How we turned a small rain event into a BIG rainwater harvest by planting stormwater within simple street-SIDE and IN-street water-harvesting earthworks or rain gardens growing food and shade-producing native plants. Some of…
Easy street water harvesting maintenance tips to boost performance, improve your plant identification skills, and erosion-control rock work strategies and tips. CHAPTERS:0:00 Intro0:18 Street-side rain gardens capturing street runoff0:28 Cleaning organic matter off…
How a series of a hybrid of street-side eddy backwater basins and flow-through basins harvest street runoff in BOTH low & BIG flow events, while also controlling erosion with hand-built one-rock-high structures such…
We planted over 110,000 gallons of annual stormwater, 55 native food-bearing trees and bush trees, & 188 multi-use native understory plants in this year’s annual neighborhood rain & native food forest planting. See…
by Brad Lancaster, HarvestingRainwater.com The following is excerpted with permission from Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2, 2nd Edition Are your street-scapes dysfunctional? Dehydrating your community and worse? If so, they…
See the linked video below… Brad Lancaster and the Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Foresters designed, got grant funding for, and project managed the installation of four fully permitted new water-harvesting traffic-calming “chicanes” or “curb extensions”…