by Brad Lancaster © 2014 www.HarvestingRainwater.com Hurricanes Norbert and Odile caused horrible destruction in Baja, Mexico, while those of us further north were more fortunate. We got the abundant rainfall from the hurricanes…
October 9, 2014
May 17, 2014
Another incredible opportunity to share ideas, traditions, and innovations across borders within similar climates by Brad Lancaster © 2014 www.HarvestingRainwater.com Los Angeles, California The February 2014 trip began with a bike ride. (My…
October 28, 2013
by Brad Lancaster © 2013 www.HarvestingRainwater.com This past September I had the great pleasure of teaching (and learning more about) ancient and modern water and sun harvesting in the Puglia region of southern…
September 27, 2013
by Brad Lancaster © 2013 www.HarvestingRainwater.com I designed the sizing and placement of the roof overhang/gutter and windows on my garottage (one-car garage turned cottage) in Tucson, Arizona, to let the sun’s rays…
May 28, 2013
by Brad Lancaster © 2013 www.HarvestingRainwater.com You don’t need to own property to engage with, harvest, cycle, and enhance your local resources—and your potential to live collaboratively with them. Below are some ideas…
September 22, 2011
by Brad Lancaster www.HarvestingRainwater.com A watershed is “that area of land, a bounded hydrological system, within which all living things are inextricably linked by their common water course and where, as humans settled, simple…
July 20, 2011
by Brad Lancaster © 2011 www.HarvestingRainwater.com Years ago at a red light I looked into the car beside me and saw the frowning driver’s hair blowing into the back seat as though she…
June 29, 2010
Many thanks to Craig Mackintosh for the permission to repost a portion of his blog entry, enhanced with his own beautiful photographs, describing some of his Middle-Eastern travel experiences and the West Bank’s…
April 27, 2010
By Julia Fonseca Whew, digging swales and basins is hard work! Gutters and tanks are expensive. And as the skimpy summer rains of 2009 demonstrated, how do you harvest rain when the rain…
March 12, 2010
By Brad Lancaster © 2010 Drops in a Bucket Blog, www.HarvestingRainwater.com When I was little I was terrified of death. I often cried myself to sleep as I thought of the end of…