Brad Lancaster

[1] He is also a permaculture teacher, designer, consultant, live storyteller[2] and co-founder of the Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Foresters,[3] and Desert Harvesters,[4] both non-profit organizations.

Lancaster lives on an eighth of an acre (506 m2) in downtown Tucson, Arizona, where rainfall is less than 12 inches (300 mm) per annum.

In such arid conditions, Lancaster consistently models that annually catching 100,000 US gallons (380,000 L; 83,000 imp gal) of rainwater to feed food-bearing shade trees, abundant gardens, and a thriving landscape is a much more viable option than the municipal system of directing it into storm drains and sewer systems.

[11] Desert Harvesters also makes the utilization of native foods easier by organizing community milling events that mill native mesquite pods into nutritious and delicious mesquite flour which is utilized by a growing number of restaurants, breweries, and home kitchens.

[citation needed] Lancaster has designed integrated water-harvesting and permaculture systems for multiple projects, including the Tucson Audubon Simpson Farm restoration site, the Milagro development, Stone Curves co-housing project,[20] and the Tucson Nature Conservancy water-harvesting demonstration site,[21] the Wallace Desert Garden at the Boyce Thompson Arboretum,[22][23] and the Tumamoc Resilience Garden.