2020 independent Press Award Winner--Green Book Category Rainwater Harvesting for
Drylands and Beyond , Volume 2
is a how-to guide enabling you to plant the rain by creating water-Harvesting earthworks
or rain gardens.
Detailed step-by-step instructions with over 550 images show you how to do it, and plentiful stories of success motivate you so you will do it.
All is made easier and more effective by the illustrations of natural patterns of water and sediment flow with which you can collaborate or mimic.
Learn to select, place, size, construct, and plant your chosen earthworks.
Conditions at home will improve as you simultaneously enrich the ecosystem and inspire the surrounding community.
This revised and expanded full-color second edition builds on the information in Volume 1 by showing you how to turn your yard, school, business, park, and neighborhood into lively, regenerative producers of resources.
The plants then pump the water back out
in the form of beauty, food, shelter, wildlife habitat, timber and forage, while controlling erosion, reducing down-stream flooding, dropping utility costs, increasing soil fertility, and improving water and air quality.
Earthworks
are simple, inexpensive strategies and landforms that passively harvest multiple sources of free on-site water including rainfall, stormwater runoff, air conditioning condensate, and greywater within living tanks of soil and vegetation. 2020 independent Press Award Winner--Green Book Category Rainwater Harvesting for
Drylands and Beyond , Volume 2
is a how-to guide enabling you to plant the rain by creating water-Harvesting earthworks
or rain gardens
