Ak-chin farming makes desert agriculture possible, and now, those practices help communities today. Farming can thrive in the desert. The Tohono O’odham people have grown crops for thousands of years, and in this…
September 16, 2024
September 7, 2024
How to save a lot of water by reusing the water from bathroom sink, bathtub, shower, and kitchen sink drains for free and safe irrigation of your plants. How to conveniently and easily…
May 15, 2024
We planted over 45,000 gallons of annual stormwater, 45 native food-bearing trees and bush trees, & 108 multi-use native understory plants in this year’s annual neighborhood rain & native food forest planting. See…
April 24, 2024
Listen to this Radio 2050 interview with Brad Lancaster and its sweet tunes to learn more about flourishing efforts such as rain-irrigated neighborhood food forestry, harvesting roof runoff for domestic water, greywater harvesting,…
August 21, 2023
This video describes how alluvial fans are formed, their ecological function, how they are eroded with gullies caused by unconscious human actions, and how that erosion can be repaired (and the alluvial fan…
August 6, 2023
Light colored exterior walls—exposed to full sun—are over 25˚F (13˚C) cooler than darker colored walls; while shaded walls (whatever the color) are over 45˚F (25˚C) degrees cooler than walls exposed to the full…
August 3, 2023
See how we harvest over 30,000 gallons (114,000 liters) of roof runoff in tree basins to passively shade and cool the building from which we harvest the water. This system was created in…
July 14, 2023
I’ve harvested over 200 gallons of DRY mesquite pods as of early July 2023. Choosing Mesquite Trees for Landscapes & How to Identify Different Species More About Mesquite Multi-Use Plant Lists & Nurseries…
June 9, 2023
Download and/or view a high-resolution 2023 version of the map Then zoom in to see the details. Compare the 2023 version of the map to the originally released 2022 version (below)to see how…
May 27, 2023
Click on the video above to see Brad Lancaster show how native food-bearing trees and understory vegetation planted within or beside passive rain- and stormwater-harvesting rain gardens is able to shade and cool…