Passive Water Harvesting

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Epic Gardening

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🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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What is passive water harvesting? Martha outlines two methods of passively harvesting water in her garden. By slowing the water, allowing it to spread out, and sink down, she harnesses what would otherwise be urban runoff, and adds tons of free water to her garden in the process. EG shop homepage: https://growepic.co/43PpP9P EG book collection page: https://growepic.co/47fZLYw EG homesteading book: https://growepic.co/3Ok5QKS Learn More: Collecting Rainwater: Hints, Tips, And Tricks https://growepic.co/44SZSrk Connect With Martha Retallick: Martha Retallick is named for her great-grandmother, a Victory Gardener who fed eight people from her plot in the blizzard capital of America, Buffalo, New York. With that level of determination in her DNA, Martha has to find ways to make gardening work. Even in Tucson, Arizona. She’ll reveal her secret superpower, water harvesting, during her “Epic Gardening” appearance. Western Sky Communications Web Site Book Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back my friends to Rainwater and Water Harvesting Week here on the Epigarning
0:17.7	podcast.
0:18.7	We are joined again by the wonderful Martha Ritalic author of the new book City Nature.
0:24.4	So we talked yesterday kind of a rationale why why harvest water in the first place
0:29.0	Martha now we're getting into some of the more specific methods and approaches starting
0:33.5	with what is called passive water harvesting.
0:36.9	So how would you define what that method is?
0:40.1	Okay, passive water harvesting when you look at it, it just sits there.
0:45.8	And another way to think of it is earth sculpture.
0:50.3	And at my place that means in my front yard, I am harvesting water that flows down off
0:57.7	the roof into rain gutters and that empties into a downspout goes down to the ground.
1:05.8	And then it goes into a drainage swale.
1:08.8	And when you think of a drainage swale, think of a rocky creek bed that's dry most of
1:14.1	the time.
1:15.2	And what are the rocks doing in there?
1:17.0	The rocks are like an obstacle course for water.
1:19.6	We want water to slow down, spread out and sink into the ground.
1:26.8	And the reason for that is because in urban environments like Tucson when it rains, we
1:31.5	get a lot of rain all at once, like one or two inches.
1:35.1	And in urban environments, more than half of that water becomes run off that floods our
1:41.5	streets and our washes.
1:43.7	So with the passive water harvesting with the sculpting the earth, we're getting it to
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