Learning Tree Farm uses cisterns to collect rainwater from a barn that was originally built to dry tobacco in the 1800s. Climate change is affecting our food, and our food is affecting the climate.

Last October I found myself walking across a golden field on the outskirts of Rome. Large bales of hay dotted the landscape before me, a welcome site to those of us trotting across what would have ...

Back in the day, as "they" say, it was more common than not for folks to collect their rainwater and use it for a variety of tasks. A barrel at the end of the rainspout could collect enough to water ...

One inch of rain pouring down on an average-sized residential roof creates 748 gallons of stormwater runoff, according to the King County Wastewater Treatment Division. After collecting debris, waste ...

According to the ARCSA’s website, www.arcsa.org, the Old Testament mentions cisterns at least 10 times, and rainwater harvesting systems in the Middle East date to 5,000 years ago. In the United ...

Perhaps one of the best ways to approach our abundance of rainfall is to reap the benefits of capturing it for future use. As home gardeners, there are a couple of easy options for harvesting ...

Rainwater harvesting is a sustainable solution to water scarcity. It's the ingenious capturing and storing of rainwater for various purposes like irrigation, landscaping and household needs. This ...

The Houston area has periods of high rainfall alternating with periods of practically no rainfall. The sensible strategy is to catch as much water as possible when it rains and then use it to water ...

Students for Sustainability hosted an event in the UA Community Garden on Saturday to paint a mural on the side of the garden’s rainwater cistern and to come together as a community. Students for ...