Guide to Building Rain Gardens out of Recycled Concrete
May 30, 2011 § 4 Comments
Left side of urbanite rain garden 1-pager I drew in 2008, click for full page
A flash from the past! I created this 8-page Landscape Rainwater Harvesting booklet for a workshop I taught the summer of 2008. The class was held June 14th 2008 at Los Angeles Eco-Village. The main activity was building las trincheras – an urbanite-terraced rainwater harvesting garden that I wrote about here a while back – and in this vid. It’s funny, the workshop was pre-creekfreak – the month before Jessica and I got started with L.A. Creek Freak in July 2008.
Right side of rain garden page - click for full page, link for full booklet in blog text
Note that the booklet owes a great deal to Brad Lancaster… it’s sort of an 8-page lite version Lancaster’s Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands volumes 1 and 2. Also thanks to permaculture teacher Larry Santoyo who first showed me how he builds garden beds with broken concrete.
Thanks, Dore, for reminding me about this booklet and scanning and assembling it!
L.A. Creek Freak 
So much can-do! Love it!
This is extremely helpful. I have a ton of leftover cinderblock from a retaining wall on my property that had been built without rebar. That said, it would have cost me $350 to haul it away. It’s not recyclable because it’s red brick and grey concrete filler mix. I now think I might be able to use it for terrace building. Yay!
Thanks for the useful info done up with fonts and lay-out
reminiscent of R. Crumb.
Awesome!