Water Scarcity Into Water Abundance

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Including

WATER ON THE LANDSCAPE

RAIN WATER HARVESTING

SITE ANALYSIS

DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS

EARTHWORKS

GREY WATER

In Association With

Rain Water Harvesting for Drylands & Beyond

Grace Grove Retreat Center

Instructors & Facilitators

Brad Lancaster

Chris Anderson

Kay Cafasso

Jay Ma

Course Description

Turn water scarcity into water abundance! This course will show you how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. Learn how to access on-site resources (rainwater, greywater, topsoil, sun, plants, and more), apply a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and utilize guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional, and water-sustainable water-harvesting landscape plan specific to your site and needs. These course will help bring your site to life, reduce your cost of living, endow yourself and your community with skills of self-reliance and cooperation, and create living air conditioners of vegetation growing beauty, food, and wildlife habitat.

Course Details

The course will be held from 10:00 am - 5:30 pm at Grace Grove Retreat Center near Sedona Arizona, with a communal lunch included. Participants can stay for dinner for an additional $15.

About Rainwater Harvesting & Grey Water?

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 on-site 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.

Rain Water Harvesting Earthworks

Watch this video of Brad Lancaster talking about using rain water harvesting basics to transform a desert into an oasis.

Permaculture Elementals:

This workshop is part of a 5-day Introduction to Permaculture Workshop Retreat called Permaculture Elementals: Regenerative Retreat for People & Planet, which will focus on 1 full element each day - Earth, Air, Water, Fire. With a focus on tending the inner as well as the outer landscapes, retreat participants will learn tangible skills to heal themselves and the Earth through the lense, themes, & medicine of the 5 Elements. This 5-Day retreat and educational workshop will focus on 1 element for each full day, with the element of Spirit woven throughout the entire course. Participants will learn cutting-edge technologies and hands-on skills in Earth Regeneration & Stewardship including: Nature Connection, Water Works, Patterns Recognition & Design, Soil Building Strategies, Plants & Food Forest Gardening, Wild Plant Identification, and much more. This course will also focus on cultivating deeper connection to ourselves and to the natural world through observation, song, story, dance, health, nutrition, healing, and other activities. Grace Grove will offer a range of healing services available for retreat participants at special rates. For more information and to register for the entire Permaculture Elementals workshop/retreat click here.

Turn Water Scarcity Into Water Abundance!

with Brad Lancaster

April 21, 2010

Grace Grove Retreat Center, near Sedona, Arizona

Workshop Tuition

Workshop tuition is $99, which includes a communal lunch. The workshop will be from 10 am - 5:30 pm. Participants can stay for dinner for an extra $15.

Site Details - Grace Grove Retreat Center

Grace Grove Retreat Center is a sacred space for groups and individuals to deepen their connection with this Earth and thereby to one another. The property upon which the Center is situated is truly unique both in terms of location, beauty, and peace. This desert oasis 20 minutes south of Sedona is home to an amazing array of wildlife. From coati mundis, and Javelina, to skinks and horny toads. Many animals are found only in this part of the world, 81 species of birds were logged on a recent hike. You need to experience this variety and abundance in order to appreciate the magic the location has to offer with every changing season.

Food, Health, Nutrition, & Gardens

Grace Grove is home to a 100+ fruit tree orchard and an organic garden that is ever changing and growing. Their intention is to grow as much as they possibly can while learning the magnificent art of becoming gardeners and making the connection between food and place. Grace Grove community members are strong believers that the food we eat play's an extremely important role in our overall well being. Grace Grove is designing their center and programs in service to the personnel development of one's awareness and consciousness around their diet and lifestyle. Accordingly they cater conscious, delicious, & nutritious food to the vegetarian, vegan and raw food community.

Directions to Grace Grove

Grace Grove Retreat Center located 20 minutes west of Sedona, Arozona and 15 minutes east of Cottonwood. For more specific directions click here. Grace Grove Address: 280 E. Willow Point Rd., Cornville, AZ 86325-6014

Transportation

Phoenix Aiport (PHX) - If flying, arrive at Phoenix Internaitonal Airport (PHX)

Sedona-Phoenix Shuttle brings you to nearby Cottonwood. Grace Grove can pick you up in Cottonwood for a $10 fee one-way or $15 roundtrip. To view the shuttle schedule and make reservations for the airport shuttle to Cottonwood, please visit www.sedona-phoenix-shuttle.com or call 928-202-2066.

Reservations for either shuttle, as well as for optional pickup in Cottonwood (Sedona-Phoenix Shuttle only) must be made in advance.

Ace Xpress can bring you to Casey's Corner in Cornville which is about 3 miles away. To view the shuttle schedule and make reservations exshuttle.com call 1-800-336-ACEX (2239).

Please contact Grace Grove in advance to schedule a pick up in Cottonwood if taking a shuttle there.

Contact

For questions and more information regarding the workshop

e-mail: elementals(at)livingmandala.com

phone: (707) 634-1461

For questions about the hosting site contact

Grace Grove Retreat Center: http://gracegrove.com/

email: puma(at)gracegrove.com

phone: (928) 649-0456

Facilitators & Instructors

Brad Lancaster

Brad Lancaster is a permaculture teacher, designer, consultant and co-founder of Desert Harvesters (DesertHarvesters.org). Brad has taught programs for the ECOSA Institute, Columbia University, University of Arizona, Prescott College, Audubon Expeditions, and many others. He has helped design integrated water harvesting and permaculture systems for homeowners and gardeners, including the Tucson Audubon Simpson Farm restoration site, the award-winning Milagro and Stone Curves co-housing projects.

Brad Lancaster is the author of the best-selling, and award-winning books Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape and Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2: Water-Harvesting Earthworks, and creator of the information-packed website www.HarvestingRainwater.com. Living on an eighth of an acre (0.05 ha) in downtown Tucson, Arizona, where rainfall is less than 12 inches (304 mm) annually, Brad practices what he preaches by harvesting over 100,000 gallons (379,000 liters) of rainwater a year.

Brad and his brother Rodd have created an oasis in the desert by directing this harvested rainwater not off their property and into storm drains, but instead incorporating it into living air conditioners of food-bearing shade trees, abundant gardens, and a thriving landscape that includes habitat for wildlife. This living example, dynamic public talks, and countless hands-on workshops have inspired thousands of citizens and numerous businesses in Tucson and around the country to harvest water and sustainably grow their local resources.

Brad's engaging style and entertaining and informative speaking and teaching are in demand resulting in interviews with National Public Radio, New Dimensions, and Natural Home and Garden, along with presentations and workshops for the Bioneers Convergence, the Green Festival, the Texas Natural Building Colloqium, the New Mexico Xeriscape Conference, Organic Farming Conferences, and more.

Lead Instructor

Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson has been practicing sustainable living since 1994, when he began working on organic farms. He later developed a market garden business and co-created a mobile environmental education program for schoolchildren in Appalachian Ohio. Chris earned a Permaculture Design Certificate in 2001 and became a Rainwater Catchment Systems Accredited Professional in 2008. Chris is Vice President of Eden on Earth, LLC, an ecological landscaping company specializing in creating abundant and edible landscapes that are irrigated naturally with rainwater and greywater. Chris gardens at his West Sedona home and is creating a community Food Forest at the Crescent Moon Ranch Community Garden.

Kay Cafasso

Kay Cafasso is a permaculture designer, teacher, natural builder, gardener,celtic dance instructor, and buddhist practitioner inspired by the ability to sustain healthy and regenerative systems in landscapes, dwellings and communities with lessons learned fromnature.She received her permaculture design certification through Naropa University in 2001 and has since been in involved in permaculture courses and projects all over the country.Kay holds certifications in solar home design and natural building construction from the Solar Energy International, and is a seasonal earthplasterer of straw bale homes. She has experienced community life at the Isle of Erraid in Scotland, has helpedto start up a member owned Co-op Powers, and is often found teaching ancient Celticdances to children and adults.Kay offers courses in permaculture design through Greenfield Community College and with the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute. She is the founder and director of Sowing Solutions, which offers permaculture design, education, and implementation.

Facilitator

Jay Ma

Jay Ma is a permaculture designer, facilitator, and community organizer committed to cultural healing through Peacemaker Principles. Hereceived his first permaculture designcertification through Naropa University in 2001, a B.A. through New College of California in Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Community with a concentration in Eco-Dwelling/Natural Building, and is a graduate of the pioneering two-year training intensive in Regenerative Design & Nature Awareness. Jay has developed educational programs, retreats, workshops, and events as well as community land development projects with organizations including the Regenerative Design Institute, the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Gaia University, Harmony Festival, and others. Jay is co-founder and director of programs and development of Living Mandala - a collective of educators, designers, and consultants, and works with other regenerative educators and institutions organizing educational courses, workshops, and events for ecological, personal, and social-regeneration in the Pacific Northwest & the United States. He is currently an associate with Gaia Universityin Organized Learning for Eco-Social Regeneration. Jay is also a certified Permaculture Teacher, aFire Walk Instructor through Sundoor International,and is passionate about renewing Rites of Passage experiential programs for people of all ages.

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