Harvesting Rainwater with Brad Lancaster [22:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (233)

Brad Lancaster has taught, designed, and consulted on the sustainable design system of permaculture and integrated rainwater harvesting systems since 1993. He lives on the thriving 1/8th-acre urban permaculture site he created in downtown Tucson, Arizona.

He plants edible landscapes of both native and dryland-adapted exotic plants, and they are full of medicinals, wildlife habitat, sources of fiber and natural dyes. They feed his family, friends, chickens, and bees.

He has written a trilogy of rainwater harvesting books that help you turn water scarcity into water abundance. Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands, Volume 1- Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape is availablenow. Volume 2 will be available in May 2008. See www.HarvestingRainwater.com for more.

Brad is also Co-coordinator of Desert Harvesters - a grassroots organization promoting the sustainable growing, harvesting, processing, and eating of native foods. See
http://www.desertharvesters.greenbicycle.net for more info.

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