[Lapg] Evening with Brad Lancaster May 10, 7pm Surfside Race Place, Del Mar Fairgrounds on Jimmy Durante Blvd. in Del Mar.San Diego area

[lakinroe at silcom.com]

San Diego Horticultural Society presents a very Special Evening with Brad Lancaster,
The presentation starts at 7:00 p.m. (doors open 6:00 p.m.) at the Surfside Race Place, Del Mar Fairgrounds on 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.

San Diego has been in a water crisis for what seems like forever, mostly because the amount of rainfall and natural water storage in San Diego is inadequate for the number of people living here and we focus much of our energy into getting water off the land and into storm drains when it rains. If you are interested in learning about how to turn water scarcity into water abundance, then you need to learn about rainwater harvesting, and the San Diego Horticultural Society is ready to teach you during their Special Evening with Brad Lancatser May 10 at 7pm.

The San Diego Horticultural Society presents a very Special Evening with Brad Lancaster, a highly-respected leader in the water harvesting movement. This inspiring PowerPoint presentation 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. The presentation starts at 7:00 p.m. (doors open 6:00 p.m.) at the Surfside Race Place, Del Mar Fairgrounds on 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 6:00 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.

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 onsite 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.

Lancaster has written and self-published the award-winning, best-selling books Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape (2006) and Volume 2: Water-Harvesting Earthworks (2008). His articles have been published in The
Ecologist, Permaculture Activist, Permaculture Magazine, Back Home Magazine, and Mother Earth News. A very popular speaker, Lancaster gives over 100 public talks, workshops, and interviews per year advocating attainable, sustainable systems. Venues have included the Village Building Convergence, New Mexico Organic Farming, California Master Gardeners, International Rainwater Catchment Systems Association, and U.S. State Department-sponsored tours of the Middle East. He has designed/built dozens of home-scale permaculture gardens and landscapes (irrigated entirely with harvested rainwater and greywater), and consulted on design of model homes, landscapes, and greenbelts, restoration projects and the Tucson Nature Conservancy water-harvesting demonstration site. To learn more visit his website, www.HarvestingRainwater.com, and associated Drops in a Bucket blog.