Water is life to a garden. With wells and city water, many gardeners don't think twice about where it will come from in the dry months. Turning on the tap solves the drought. Until the costs of turning on the tap become too steep.
Gardening calls for more care than that. Our garden is not only ours. We share it with insects and birds, microbes and the soil itself. Gardening calls for harvesting rain in the wet months the same way we harvest cuttings and weeds and compost waste.
Swales and rain gardens feed the earth, capturing water in our garden, giving it time to soak into the soil. Your roof can feed rain storage tanks when there is no rain. Planning for scarcity lets gardens survive the dry spells. Capturing runoff to soak into the soil feeds the earth, and in time, our tables. When gardens around you go quiet after months without rain, yours can be an oasis and refuge.
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