Hey team! We have a free online workshop for you coming up – it’s all about strategies, ideas and hacks for getting started with Rainwater harvesting at home (even if you’re renting!) – for your household’s resilience, and your garden, too.

The workshop is free to attend, and once you register, we’ll send you the workshop recording with a bunch of helpful notes and resources the day after it happens, just incase you can’t catch the live session.

The mini workshops will be held on Wednesday 23rd June (there’s two times to choose from) and you can book your place below. These online workshops will be a jam packed, live 30 minute session, with a Q&A at the end:

Harvesting rainwater is an excellent strategy to increase your household’s resilience, and it’s available to (nearly) everyone. Got a sky, that rains sometimes? Well, you can begin! Let’s get harvesting.

There’s so many simple hacks and systems you can set up at your place, even if you’re renting, to catch, store and use rainwater to make life more abundant, in all sorts of ways.

We know all this for sure because we have been designing rainwater harvesting systems and solutions – in rental backyards, community rooftop gardens, and at the farm scale too, for over 15 years now.

And so we’ve learned a lot about what works in different places, on different budgets – whether you’re harvesting rainwater to drink, to store for later, or to divert to plantings around your home.

So we’re going to show you how you can use Rainwater Harvesting techniques to make your place more resilient, reduce bushfire risk, increase abundance AND better support your local watershed and ecosystem, too

By the end of this workshop, you’ll be brimming with ideas to get started with harvesting rainwater at your place, and making your space somewhere that you’ll truly love to live in.

In this Rainwater Harvesting Workshop, we’ll cover:

• the many advantages of harvesting rainwater
• simple catchment solutions for renters + small spaces
• installing a rainwater tank – the whys and hows
• creating a rain garden – no tank required!
• tricks for passively diverting more rainwater into your system
• stewarding your ecosystem through rainwater use
• how to build your resilience with this free and awesome resource
• how to have fun while you do all this!
• And then we’ll answer your questions LIVE in theQ&A with you.

Are you in?

Q –What time is this masterclass? We’re doing multiple sessions – and both times should show up, in your local time-zone, in the drop-down above your name where you register above – so pick the one that bests suits you. 

Q – What if I can’t make it? Can I still watch somehow? Yes! Once you register for the masterclass, you will be on the list to receive a copy of the mini workshop recording afterwards – so if you can’t make it to the live version at the last moment, no worries (tho we will miss you). 

Whether you can make the live session or not, as said – we’ll also send you a resource list with a heap of good books and DIY guides, to light your rainwater harvesting fire (is that a thing? it is now!)

We look forward to seeing you there x

We acknowledge that permaculture owes the roots of its theory and practice to traditional and Indigenous knowledges, from all over the world. We all stand on the shoulders of many ancestors – as we learn, and re-learn, these skills and concepts. We pay our deepest respects and give our heartfelt thanks to these knowledge-keepers, both past and present.⁠

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