Planting the Rain to Grow Abundance

Schedule

Tue Sep 23 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

SITE SANTA FE | Santa Fe, NM

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Author, Brad Lancaster will share practical ways to work with natural systems to create healthier, more resilient environments.
About this Event

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The Homewise Livability Speaker Series, launched in 2023, is a community education program that features local and national experts discussing how housing markets become unaffordable and exploring strategies to manage development for greater affordability, sustainability, and livability. Our 2025 Albuquerque series will take place monthly from March through June.


Childcare and interpretation will be provided. When reserving your ticket, please indicate if you need childcare or interpretation. This is a free, ticketed event that we anticipate will sell out, so we encourage you to get your ticket today!


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Join Brad Lancaster, author of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond and co-founder of NeighborhoodForesters.org, for an inspiring discussion on how simple, low-cost strategies can transform our homes, neighborhoods, and community into thriving oases of abundance. Brad will share practical ways to work with natural systems—harvesting rainwater, reusing greywater, growing shade, building fertile soil, and revitalizing public spaces—to create healthier, more resilient environments.

Through compelling real-world examples, you’ll see how hand-built structures have restored wetlands, how sun and shade are harnessed to power homes naturally, and how stormwater can be redirected to grow beauty, food, and community. Brad will highlight how these regenerative practices can shape local development and the land development code. By incentivizing green infrastructure and integrating water-harvesting landscapes into urban design, these approaches support long-term water security, climate resilience, and vibrant public spaces.

It’s more than a presentation—it’s a call to action and a practical roadmap to engage and partner with your natural surroundings and to further embed sustainability into the city’s growth and development.


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Brad Lancaster is the author of the award-winning Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond and co-founder of Neighborhood Foresters.org. Since 1993 Brad has run a successful permaculture education, design, and consultation business focused on integrated regenerative approaches to landscape design, planning, and living. In the Sonoran Desert, with just 11 inches (280 mmm) of average annual rainfall, he and his brother’s family harvest about 100,000 gallons (378,000 liters) of rainwater a year on an eighth-acre (0.05 ha) urban lot and adjoining right-of-way. This harvested water is then turned into living air conditioners of food-bearing shade trees, abundant gardens, and a thriving landscape incorporating wildlife habitat, beauty, medicinal plants, and more. The goal of his book series and overall work is to empower his clients and community to make positive change in their own lives and neighborhoods—by harvesting and enhancing free on-site resources such as water, sun, wind, shade, community, and more. It’s catching on, as evidenced by tens of thousands of practitioners and demand for Brad’s work around the world.


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La Serie de Oradores sobre Habitabilidad de Homewise es un programa de educación comunitaria creado en 2023 que presenta oradores locales y nacionales que ayudan a los residentes a aprender cómo los mercados inmobiliarios se vuelven inasequibles y formas de gestionar los patrones de desarrollo para aumentar la asequibilidad, la sostenibilidad y la habitabilidad. Nuestra serie 2025 se llevará a cabo una vez al mes de marzo a junio.


Se proporcionará cuidado de niños e interpretación. Al reservar su boleto, indique si necesita cuidado de niños o interpretación. Este es un evento gratuito con entrada que anticipamos que se agotará, por lo que te animamos a que consigas tu entrada hoy.


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Acompaña a Brad Lancaster, autor de Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond y cofundador de NeighborhoodForesters.org, en una plática inspiradora sobre cómo estrategias simples y de bajo costo pueden transformar nuestros viviendas, vecindarios y comunidades en oasis prósperos y abundantes. Brad compartirá formas prácticas de trabajar con los sistemas naturales—cosechando agua de lluvia, reutilizando aguas grises, creando sombra, enriqueciendo la tierra y revitalizando los espacios públicos—para crear entornos más saludables y resilientes.

A través de ejemplos reales y convincentes, verás cómo estructuras hechas a mano han restaurado humedales, cómo se aprovechan el sol y la sombra para energizar viviendas de forma natural, y cómo el agua pluvial puede redirigirse para cultivar belleza, alimentos y comunidad. Brad destacará cómo estas prácticas regenerativas pueden influir en el desarrollo local y en el código de desarrollo urbano. Al incentivar la infraestructura verde e integrar paisajes de captación de agua en el diseño urbano, estos enfoques promueven la seguridad hídrica a largo plazo, la resiliencia climática y espacios públicos vibrantes.

Es más que una presentación: es un llamado a la acción y una hoja de ruta práctica para involucrarte y colaborar con tu entorno natural, e incorporar aún más la sostenibilidad en el crecimiento y desarrollo de la ciudad.


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Brad Lancaster es autor de la galardonada serie Cosecha de Agua de Lluvia para Tierras Secas y Más Allá (Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond) y cofundador de NeighborhoodForesters.org. Desde 1993, Brad ha dirigido con éxito un negocio de educación, diseño y consultoría en permacultura con enfoques regenerativos e integrados para el diseño del paisaje, la planificación y la vida cotidiana. En el Desierto Sonorense, donde caen apenas 28 cm (11 pulgadas) de lluvia al año en promedio, él y la familia de su hermano cosechan aproximadamente 378,000 litros (100,000 galones) de agua de lluvia al año en un terreno urbano de apenas 0.05 hectáreas (una octava parte de acre) y el derecho de vía contiguo. Esta agua recolectada se convierte luego en acondicionadores de aire vivientes: árboles frutales que dan sombra, jardines abundantes y un paisaje floreciente que incorpora hábitat para la fauna, belleza, plantas medicinales y mucho más.

El objetivo de su serie de libros y de su trabajo en general es empoderar a sus clientes y a su comunidad para que generen cambios positivos en sus propias vidas y vecindarios—aprovechando y mejorando los recursos gratuitos disponibles en el sitio, como el agua, el sol, el viento, la sombra, la comunidad y más. Está ganando popularidad, como lo demuestran las decenas de miles de practicantes y la demanda por el trabajo de Brad en todo el mundo.

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