The Rationale for Water Harvesting

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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When Martha moved to Tucson, she wanted to plant a garden full of trees. But irrigating them posed a huge problem in her desert climate. Instead of spending tons of money on a full system, Martha opted to harvest from the “Big Watering Can In the Sky”. EG shop homepage: https://growepic.co/43RM3bu EG book collection page: https://growepic.co/3QnG4b4 EG homesteading book: https://growepic.co/47kyMLi Learn More: Collecting Rainwater: Hints, Tips, And Tricks https://growepic.co/3QupJkZ 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	Over the past few years, I've become absolutely obsessed with rainwater capture, as well
0:17.6	as overall water harvesting, specifically from some greywater systems that go into different
0:23.0	parts of my garden.
0:24.0	I'm very excited because this week we have Martha Britallic on the show.
0:28.4	She's the author of the new book, City Nature, which really explains the rationale for
0:33.5	water harvesting and how she puts it into practice.
0:35.9	So Martha, really excited to have you.
0:38.4	I'm really obsessed with this, so I'm glad to be talking to an expert.
0:42.5	Well, you're going to hear for another obsessive person.
0:46.9	And I got into water harvesting kind of the back way.
0:51.4	I bought my house in 2004.
0:53.8	I was a single woman on a budget.
0:57.2	And I'm from Pennsylvania.
0:59.2	So being from Pennsylvania, I wanted to have trees in the yard.
1:05.0	But there's one problem with that here in Arizona.
1:07.3	You got a water room.
1:09.6	And since I was on a budget, the monetary type, I could not afford to install an irrigation
1:16.5	system that's connected to our municipal water supply.
1:21.3	So instead of that, I planted a yard of low water use trees and shrubs, some of which
1:29.0	are native to this region, others come from places like Australia and Africa.
1:34.9	And over time, I have been able to water these plants using the great watering can in
1:42.2	the sky, rain.
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