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In the Sonoran Desert, where just 11 inches of rain falls a year, Brad Lancaster and his brother's family harvest about 100,000 gallons of rainwater annually on an eighth-acre urban lot. That water becomes food-bearing shade trees, gardens, wildlife habitat, and a thriving landscape -- all without a municipal water hookup.
In this webinar, Brad walks through eight universal principles of water harvesting and the simple, low-cost strategies behind them. Rainwater harvesting captures rain where it falls -- through rain gardens, earthworks, and passive techniques. Greywater harvesting redirects water from household drains into landscape soils where it's naturally filtered and reused. Together, the two can cut potable/municipal water consumption by 30 to 70%.
You'll come away with practical approaches for your own yard and community, plus real-world examples of how these techniques are cooling cities, controlling erosion, averting flooding, reducing water pollution, and reviving dead waterways.
Whether you're gardening through drought or just tired of watching rainwater run off your property and into a storm drain, this one's for you. Q&A to follow.
Can't make it live? Recording will be sent to Less Lawn More Life participants within 24 hours.
Brad Lancaster
Author, Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond · Co-founder, NeighborhoodForesters.org
About Brad Lancaster - Brad Lancaster is the author of the award-winning Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond and has been teaching, designing, and consulting on regenerative water-harvesting systems since 1993, working across nine countries. Based in Tucson, Arizona, he practices what he teaches: harvesting roughly 100,000 gallons of rainwater a year on an eighth-acre lot in the Sonoran Desert, turning it into a productive urban landscape of food trees, gardens, and wildlife habitat.
About NeighborhoodForesters.org - Co-founded by Brad Lancaster, Neighborhood Foresters is a community-driven initiative that helps neighborhoods plant and steward food-bearing shade trees using harvested rainwater and greywater. The project focuses on turning urban streets and yards into cooler, greener, more productive landscapes, one neighborhood at a time.
About TucsonNativePlants.com - Neighborhood Foresters' Sonoran Desert native plant database for use with rain-irrigated green infrastructure.
See Brad's YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/HarvestingRainwater