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…
December 1, 2025
From sterile gravel lot to lush rain-fed paradise! How a single rain garden sparked the on-going transformation of a once sterile office complex experiencing costly flooding into a growing oasis that harvests onsite…
August 6, 2025
The City of Albuquerque, NM has just adopted a new curb cut policy! This policy provides a simple process for residents to apply to install curb cuts, curb cores and sediment traps in…
June 21, 2025
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…