By Brad Lancaster www.HarvestingRainwater.com In 2018 and 2019 I had the pleasure to work with Rob Kater and crew of Native Resource International to incorporate stealth water- and soil-harvesting strategies into an…
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August 28, 2020
by Brad Lancaster www.HarvestingRainwater.com The following is reproduced from “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2, 2nd Edition.” Life supported by water-harvesting earthworks mitigates climate change and weather extremes The availability of…
August 23, 2020
—and How You Can Help Make Such Change Where You Are By Brad Lancaster www.HarvestingRainwater.com Utah has recently revised its rules for greywater harvesting systems to allow for residential households to permit, install,…
August 1, 2020
by Brad Lancaster www.HarvestingRainwater.com Why buy all food or materials for shade structures for your chickens when you can grow many of these resources and more? Plants native to your area and your…
April 30, 2020
The new full-color, revised editions of Brad Lancaster’s books Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volumes 1 and 2 are Independent Press Award winners. In addition, Volume 1 is a semi-finalist for a…
December 7, 2019
I just released the new, full-color, 3rd edition of Volume 1 in E-BOOK format. This makes the book far more affordable for those outside the U.S., since there are no insanely costly international…
November 21, 2019
By Brad Lancaster © 2019HarvestingRainwater.com I love turning “wastes” into resources, thus I love the creative reuse of “urbanite” — the abundant “rock” of broken up chunks of discarded concrete rubble. And I…
October 2, 2019
I’m conducting the giveaway of signed copies of the full-color, 2nd edition of Volume 2 September 27 to October 10, 2019. This giveaway is only for people with mailing addresses in the…
September 22, 2019
I’m conducting the giveaway of signed copies of the just-released, full-color, 3rd edition of Volume 1 beginning September 25, 2019. This giveaway is only for people with mailing addresses in the United States,…
September 8, 2019
By Brad Lancaster © 2019 HarvestingRainwater.com I love water and seek it out when I hike—especially tinajas, natural water pools in the desert. Such ephemeral pools can be created with simple strategies in…