Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to Tucson, Arizona to film the epic work of rainwater harvesting pioneer, Brad Lancaster. We tour the neighborhood of Dunbar Springs, where Brad has been transforming the hot asphalt streets into a native food oasis over the last 30 years.
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In this 5th and final video we check out Brad Lancaster's evaporative cooler and composting toilet setup, both of which illustrate DIY innovations to be implemented at any off-grid (or on-grid!) set up.
Discover how to create a vibrant, food-producing, and wildlife-friendly neighborhood native plant forest with free irrigation strategies and forested traffic calming. This video showcases how even in the Sonoran Desert, roof & street runoff can be utilized for free water WITHOUT TANKS or pipes, promoting sustainable living and green infrastructure. Learn about how to foster a thriving rain-irrigated native food forest in your community, along with how to better identify and encourage multi-use native plants (the plants that co-evolved with your local climate, soils, & wildlife), while removing the invasive non-native plants.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro
1:27 Non-native, invasive London rocket mustard (Sisymbrium irio)
1:39 Native globemallow (Sphaeralcea ambigua)
1:54 hula hoe & how to use weeds as mulch BEFORE they seed
2:34 Native Hoary bowlesia (Bowlesia incana)
2:52 Native Common Fiddleneck (Amsinckia menziesii intermedia)
3:03 Harvesting roof runoff within public rain gardens for free irrigation
15:14 How to tell native and non-native annual mustards apart
16:25 Why native plants are better for butterflies, moths (their caterpillars), and birds
17:25 Why invasive, non-native plants out compete natives - they are not edible to much of the native wildlife, and thus they don't have natural controls or native beneficiaries
18:14 Non-native, invasive Mediterranean grass (Schismus barbatus and S. arabicus)
18:42 Feeding non-native, invasive weeds to goats and chickens
18:58 Native wildflower mixes from Wildlands Restoration
19:43 First, plant the rain. Then planting the wildflower seed at beginning of rainy season.
21:45 CAUTION: Only use plants for food and medicine when you are sure you have correctly identified them, and you know how to process and utilize. Native brittlebush (Encelia farinosa)
22:03 Native Sonoran Justicia (Justicia sonorae) & more resources
22:22 Tucson Bird Alliance Habitat at Home program
In this episode - Part 3 of this series (check out the prior video here : • Part 2 "The World Does... ) - we follow up on Brad Lancaster's work Guerilla Planting Trees on a bleak section of concrete in his Tucson neighborhood. After that, we check out some legal and permitted installations of trees and rainwater catchment basins he and his community installed on the sidewalks and street margins for the purposes of shading the streets, reducing urban heat and more.
For more on Brad and his community's work:
• Subscribe to his YouTube channel:
 / harvestingrainwater
• Check out his "Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands & Beyond" books and website:
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• Check out his community's rain-irrigated native food forestry website:
In this second video showcasing Brad Lancaster's work in Tucson, we check out a large Guerrilla Planting project as well as more of the rainwater catchment projects on the neighborhood streets.
For more on Brad and his community's work:
• Subscribe to his YouTube channel:
 / harvestingrainwater
• Check out his "Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands & Beyond" books and website:
https://www.harvesting...
• Check out his community's rain-irrigated native food forestry website:
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In this episode we see the incredible work that Brad Lancaster and his community are doing to make the Dunbar Spring Neighborhood in Tucson a cooler, more pleasant and human-friendly place to live by using plants as infrastructure and creating a food forest using native plants that are adapted to deal with the desert heat perfectly because they evolved there.
This video shows us how what Brad and his community have done serve as a model as to what could be down to make cities all over the globe more livable, illustrating how human development and nature do not have to be mutually exclusive. Filming this video and seeing that Brad and his people have done made me feel in something I haven't felt in a long time : hope.
From sterile gravel lot to lush rain-fed paradise!
How a single rain garden sparked the on-going transformation of a once sterile office complex experiencing costly flooding into a growing oasis that harvests onsite rain and massive stormwater flows from neighboring properties in a way that controls flooding, recharges the aquifer, and naturally cleans the water and soils with edible life.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:59 Reese Baker and the rain garden that sparked transformations throughout the office complex
1:20 The watershed and its 250,000 gallons (946,000 liters) draining into the rain garden
2:09 non-native Siberian elm tree logs inoculated with oyster mushroom decomposer fungi that help filter water and soil
3:15 Rain garden planted with native edibles in 2017 by local high school's freshman biology class
4:10 Xerces Society documented native bee species supported by the rain garden
4:34 mycelium growing on Siberian elm log
5:31 rain gardens run stormwater from streets and pavement through biology to filter the water (in this case with plants - phytoremediation AND with fungi - mycoremediation) so the filtered surplus stormwater can then recharge the aquifer
6:07 This rain garden is only watered by passively harvested rainwater and stormwater - NO water from municipal system or wells
6:48 How stormwater from once flooded back-side of offices is brought to front-side rain gardens
7:35 Sediment trap
7:46 Acquía-like canals or channels then convey once-flooding stormwater to new meandering, stepped rain gardens
8:16 Lesson learned from mistake: Do NOT constrict flow with pipe or you'll experience clogging from floating "debris"
8:55 Stormwater flow through the canal/channel
9:46 Dry gravel pits BEFORE transformation. All roof runoff used to drain to back side of properties.
10:14 Pits now transformed into rain gardens installed just a few months before this video was filmed.
11:47 Stormwater flow through the new stepped and meandering rain garden basins
12:16 Detail on the rock weir that sets the depth of the upstream basin, and creates a waterfall spillway for the overflow water
13:23 On-going replacement of gravel with wood chip mulch
15:04 Media luna basin overflow spillway creating three waterfalls
15:45 Zuni-bowl three-way "valve" that directs much of the incoming stormwater from adjoining properties (and roof water draining off back side of office buildings) to rain gardens in the front yards of the offices.
16:51 How stormwater channels are reducing flooding on the backside of the offices.
18:32 If Reese only had to deal with water coming off on-site office roofs the stormwater channel would not need continuous rock on its bottom, but could instead just have periodic one-rock dam grade control structures
19:16 The flooding problems BEFORE stormwater was harvested
20:25 The undersized designed overflow outlet of the neighboring property's stormwater detention basin
20:49 Stormwater flows from the neighboring property's stormwater detention basin.
There are three rain-garden zones, each for a different microclimate within a rain garden: Bottom – typically bottom of a basin or swale. Pr
As our environments are being pressured by worsening climate collapse, you may have been noticing that our weather can often change without warning.
Are you experiencing flooding in areas of your garden that may have never flooded before? Have you considered installing a rain garden, but don't know where to start?
Well, the answers are here. Brad Lancaster knows a thing or two about water harvesting, and he is sharing his information with us! Yay!!
Click on that link above to learn more.
P.S. If you want to dig a little deeper into Brad and his history, check out his Tedx Talk! - here. Enjoy!
