I write this on the first day of summer with the daytime high temperature well above 100˚F (37˚C), in a drought made far worse by bad landscape design that drains rather than retains…
June 4, 2025
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…
May 25, 2025
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…
April 2, 2025
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”…
December 12, 2024
Join us for a limited virtual premiere and stream the entire series…or episodes of your choice. Enjoy viewing the episodes at your own pace and in your own home.Kick-off your streaming period anytime before January 31,…
September 16, 2024
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 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…