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 12, 2023
Brad Lancaster shows us dramatic pre-sunrise temperature differences of paved and unpaved areas in the urban environment, so you can see what heats us up, and what cools us down (and by how…
July 14, 2023
I’ve harvested over 200 gallons of DRY mesquite pods as of early July 2023. Choosing Mesquite Trees for Landscapes & How to Identify Different Species More About Mesquite Multi-Use Plant Lists & Nurseries…
June 9, 2023
Download and/or view a high-resolution 2023 version of the map Then zoom in to see the details. Compare the 2023 version of the map to the originally released 2022 version (below)to see how…
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 27, 2023
Click on the video above to see Brad Lancaster show how native food-bearing trees and understory vegetation planted within or beside passive rain- and stormwater-harvesting rain gardens is able to shade and cool…
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.