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
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
Brad Lancaster shows you how the valve choice (and hose size choice) for your gravity-fed (free gravity is your only “pump”) rainwater tank makes a big difference in water flow. The better the…
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…
June 3, 2023
Listen to this podcast by Living on Earth, National Public Radio’s Environmental News Magazine, on how our Dunbar/Spring neighborhood, and its Neighborhood Foresters, harvest over a million gallons per year of stormwater from…
May 3, 2023
We planted over 60,000 gallons of annual stormwater, 36 native food-bearing trees and bush trees, & 114 multi-use native understory plants in this year’s annual neighborhood rain & native food forest planting. See…
April 21, 2023
Ancient and modern methods of collecting and storing rainwater are being used to address severe drought today.
February 4, 2023
How neighborhood forestry-led efforts turn flooding problems into a free irrigation resources that also help recharge the aquifer and other local waters. Turns flooding problem into a free irrigation resource that also helps…