Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Part 1 of a 3 Video Series
In this episode we see the incredible work that Brad Lancaster and his community are doing to make the Dunbar Spring Neighborhood in Tucson a cooler, more pleasant and human-friendly place to live by using plants as infrastructure and creating a food forest using native plants that are adapted to deal with the desert heat perfectly because they evolved there.
This video shows us how what Brad and his community have done serve as a model as to what could be down to make cities all over the globe more livable, illustrating how human development and nature do not have to be mutually exclusive. Filming this video and seeing that Brad and his people have done made me feel in something I haven't felt in a long time : hope.
For more on Brad and his community's work:
• Subscribe to his YouTube channel:
youtube.com/c/HarvestingRainwater
• Check out his "Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands & Beyond" books and website:
harvestingrainwater.com
• Check out his community's rain-irrigated native food forestry website:
dunbarspringneighborhoodforesters.org
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Your contributions support this content. It sounds cliché but it's true. Whether it's travel expenses, vehicle repair, or medical costs for urushiol poisoning (or rockfalls, bee-stings, hand slices, toxic sap, etc), your financial support allows this content to continue so the beauty of Earth's flora can be made accessible to the public, accompanied by a small dose of profanity and crude humor. At a time when so much is disappearing beneath the human footprint, CPBBD is willing to do whatever it takes to document these plant species and the ecological communities they are a part of before they're gone for good.
Plants make people feel good. Plants quell homicidal (and suicidal!) thoughts. To support Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't, consider donating a few bucks to the venmo account "societyishell" or the PayPal account email crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt@gmail.com...
Or consider becoming a patreon supporter @ :
patreon.com/CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt
Buy some CPBBD merch (shirts, hats, hoodies n' what the shit) available for sale at :
bonfire.com/store/crime-pays-but-botany-doesnt
To purchase stickers, venmo 20 bucks to "societyishell" and leave your address in the comments.
Plants ID questions or reading list suggestions can be sent to crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt@gmail.com
Thanks, GFY.
Part 1 of a 3 Video Series
In this episode we see the incredible work that Brad Lancaster and his community are doing to make the Dunbar Spring Neighborhood in Tucson a cooler, more pleasant and human-friendly place to live by using plants as infrastructure and creating a food forest using native plants that are adapted to deal with the desert heat perfectly because they evolved there.
This video shows us how what Brad and his community have done serve as a model as to what could be down to make cities all over the globe more livable, illustrating how human development and nature do not have to be mutually exclusive. Filming this video and seeing that Brad and his people have done made me feel in something I haven't felt in a long time : hope.
For more on Brad and his community's work:
• Subscribe to his YouTube channel:
youtube.com/c/HarvestingRainwater
• Check out his "Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands & Beyond" books and website:
harvestingrainwater.com
• Check out his community's rain-irrigated native food forestry website:
dunbarspringneighborhoodforesters.org
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Your contributions support this content. It sounds cliché but it's true. Whether it's travel expenses, vehicle repair, or medical costs for urushiol poisoning (or rockfalls, bee-stings, hand slices, toxic sap, etc), your financial support allows this content to continue so the beauty of Earth's flora can be made accessible to the public, accompanied by a small dose of profanity and crude humor. At a time when so much is disappearing beneath the human footprint, CPBBD is willing to do whatever it takes to document these plant species and the ecological communities they are a part of before they're gone for good.
Plants make people feel good. Plants quell homicidal (and suicidal!) thoughts. To support Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't, consider donating a few bucks to the venmo account "societyishell" or the PayPal account email crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt@gmail.com...
Or consider becoming a patreon supporter @ :
patreon.com/CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt
Buy some CPBBD merch (shirts, hats, hoodies n' what the shit) available for sale at :
bonfire.com/store/crime-pays-but-botany-doesnt
To purchase stickers, venmo 20 bucks to "societyishell" and leave your address in the comments.
Plants ID questions or reading list suggestions can be sent to crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt@gmail.com
Thanks, GFY.
