Learn a simple trick for a quick and easy DIY drip irrigation system, perfect for discreet guerrilla growing. This method is ideal for watering plants on the go! Also discover how to fertilize…
December 1, 2025
Discover how to foster thriving urban spaces through practical strategies promoting affordable housing and strong community engagement. Learn how water-harvesting green infrastructure initiatives and passive sun and shade harvesting can contribute to sustainable…
How we turned a small rain event into a BIG rainwater harvest by planting stormwater within simple street-SIDE and IN-street water-harvesting earthworks or rain gardens growing food and shade-producing native plants. Some of…
Brad Lancaster with the muffin tin demonstration compares FUNCTIONAL landscapes with water-HARVESTING topography to DYSFUNCTIONAL landscapes with water-DRAINING topography. Water-harvesting landscapes also capture and grow organic matter, soil fertility, and the living sponge;…
Rainwater harvesting in tanks vs water harvesting in the living sponge of rain gardens — there are pros and cons to both. See a simple rain harvesting model showing how to turn a…
Easy street water harvesting maintenance tips to boost performance, improve your plant identification skills, and erosion-control rock work strategies and tips. CHAPTERS:0:00 Intro0:18 Street-side rain gardens capturing street runoff0:28 Cleaning organic matter off…
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…
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…
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…