Cascabel, Arizona, USA Latitude 32.2˚N Elevation 3,195 feet (973 meters) Average annual rainfall 10.28 inches (261 mm) Average annual humidity 36% David Omick and Pearl Mast are wonderful practitioners of productive and joyful…
June 28, 2022
May 21, 2022
By planting the rain before you plant (with water-harvesting earthworks) you will be able to harvest ALL free waters (such as rainwater, stormwater, greywater, air conditioning condensate, or in this case—broken water line…
February 10, 2022
Bill Zeedyk describing some of the aims and coming effects of volunteer-installed on-the-ground work at the Elkhorn/Las Delicias Watershed Restoration Demonstration Project site in Altar Valley, Arizona by using induced meandering within the…
January 21, 2022
Plant your greywater as you shower to grow a fragrant, edible, privacy screen that also feeds & shelters chickens, goats, pollinators, and native song birds. Two drains, each to a different gravity-fed branched…
January 14, 2022
For a short video of an amazing assortment of musical-instrument downspouts in the Kunsthof-passage of Dresden, Germany, click here. And for an impressive, engaging body of work by artist Stacy Levy, whose work…
I list (in alphabetical order by country, state, and city) some of my favorite plant nurseries & the beginnings of a list of seed suppliers for various regions by the state in which…
January 12, 2022
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’…
January 2, 2022
This inexpensive gravity-fed (no pumps or tanks) system uses common plumbing parts, and no expensive or hard-to-find valves. Plant your greywater before you plant your higher water use plants (think fruit trees)! That…
December 24, 2021
Kailash Ecovillage in Portland, Oregon has transformed their 2 acres to absorb all of the rain that falls on it with an edible landscape, in a way that they give more water to…