Date: May 10, 2010
Time: 7 – 8:30 pm (doors at 6 pm)
Annual Special Evening Event
Brad Lancaster, Speaker, Author, and Leader in the Water Harvesting Movement

Water Harvesting: Turning Drains into Sponges and Water Scarcity into Water Abundance
The San Diego Horticultural Society presents its annual Special Evening, this year featuring Brad Lancaster, a highly-respected leader in the water harvesting movement. In his inspiring PowerPoint presentation, Lancaster shares eight universal principles of water harvesting along with simple strategies that turn water scarcity into water abundance. These principles empower you to create integrated water-sustainable landscape plans at home and throughout your community. You’ll be inspired—and empowered— to start harvesting this precious resource for your own garden.
Rainwater harvesting is the process of capturing rain and making the most of it as close as possible to where it falls. Greywater harvesting is the process of directing water from household sink, bathtub, shower, and washing machine drains into the soils of the landscape where the water is naturally filtered and reused to generate more on-site resources. The two work hand in hand, and can reduce our water consumption by 30 to 50%! You’ll see examples enhancing local food security, passively cooling cities in summer, reducing costs of living and energy consumption, controlling erosion, averting flooding, reviving dead waterways, minimizing water pollution, building community, creating celebration, and more.
The presentation starts at 7 p.m. (doors open 6 p.m.) at the Surfside Race Place, Del Mar Fairgrounds at 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd in Del Mar. Parking is free and everyone is welcome.
Tickets for this exciting Special Evening are $15/SDHS members, $25/non-members. Come anytime after 6 p.m. to shop for plants and garden-related products, and to purchase the speaker’s two books. Seating is limited, and tickets may be ordered on-line at www.sdhortsoc.org