Winter is just around the corner, which means that I'm outside planting clothes of garlic and broccoli late into the evening as the sunsets, braving the cold elements as winter sets in, which actually brings us today's sponsor, Element.

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And now let's get back to the podcast.

It's water harvesting week, my friends, here on the podcast. We have Martha Ritalik back.

Author of the New Book City Nature. Martha, we talked a little bit yesterday about cisterns.

Cisterns was something that, to be honest, I sort of, back in the day, I used to think,

oh, it's like some old Roman way of storing water. I had no concept of what it really meant in today's world.

And now that I have a 5,000 gallon cistern in my backyard, I realize how silly I was back then.

We mentioned passive water harvesting in yesterday's episode. We're now getting into active

water harvesting. How would you differentiate the two? Because one might say,

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