By Brad Lancaster with gratitude to Bill Zeedyk for his edits, feedback, and mentoring www.HarvestingRainwater.com Starting January 2012, Bill Zeedyk and Steve Carson directed the largely volunteer-installed on-the-ground work in a collaborative conservation/restoration…
People see that dramatic positive change is possible when—after we implement water-harvesting plantings and restoration efforts—we post signs with photos documenting conditions before we planted regenerating abundance. Place the signs where the ‘before’…
by Brad Lancaster, www.HarvestingRainwater.com and David Omick, www.Omick.net The following principles for policy change were derived from and informed by the experiences of David Omick, Pearl Mast, and Brad Lancaster in working…
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 3rd Edition wins the Silver Medal in the 2021 Readers’ Favorite Book Awards Readers’ Favorite Book Awards review of Volume 1: Reviewed by Mamta Madhavan…
By Brad Lancaster www.HarvestingRainwater.com Like much of the country, drought with high temperatures is drying us out; stressing many shade plants, and threatening our cooling soil-carbon sponges. Yet rain is predicted—so we do…
by Brad Lancaster www.HarvestingRainwater.com In 2014 and 2016 I had the honor of being able to travel to Zimbabwe to learn from indigenous water harvesters and the amazing people with Muonde Trust, and…
Rainwater Spiritual is a sweet rain of a water-harvesting song written and performed by Gabrielle Pietrangelo (though I had the honor of giving a minor assist with a couple of the lyrics). Check…
I just released the new, full-color, 2nd edition of Volume 2 in eBook format. This makes the book far more affordable for those outside the U.S., since there are no insanely costly international…
by Brad Lancaster www.HarvestingRainwater.com Why buy all food or materials for shade structures for your goats or other livestock when you can grow many of these resources and more? Plants native to your…
The new full-color, revised editions of Brad Lancaster’s books Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volumes 1 and 2 are NYC Big Book Award winners. • Volume 1, 3rd Edition won the Distinguished…