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ANNOUNCING THE LAUNCH OF OUR APPS
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Explore the newest additions to Forgotten Rain.
Apps
Rain Water Harvesting
Rainwater systems build guide.
Size a rainwater system from your own roof, build it in ten clear plates, and keep it running.
Rainwater Harvesting is made for beginners who want to collect rainwater at home — homeowners and gardeners with no engineering background. It is a field manual you can actually follow. It takes you from your roof to a safe, healthy tank in ten clear plates, sizes the system from your own numbers, and keeps it running for years.
Unlike a stand-alone calculator or a how-to article, it ties the sizing math to a guided build and a maintenance tracker for your own system, so the numbers, the steps and the upkeep all describe the same tank.
SIZE IT FROM YOUR OWN ROOF
Enter your roof size, roof type and local rainfall. The calculator turns them into gallons a year, a first-flush size, a recommended tank and how much of your garden, toilets or laundry that water can cover, using the standard published formulas. Every number is an estimate, and it says so.
BUILD IT ONE PLATE AT A TIME
Ten guided plates walk from catchment to distribution, including the four steps most beginners miss: a prefilter, a calming inlet, a floating intake and a skimming overflow. The Watershed diagram builds itself and fills with water as you go, and each plate earns a Guardian Seal.
KEEP IT RUNNING
A maintenance tracker gives next-due dates, seasonal checklists and an optional reminder on the day a job is due. An equipment log tracks parts, costs and replacement dates.
KNOW THE RULES WHERE YOU LIVE
Check your state's rainwater rules and incentives, browse ideas for using the water ranked by savings, and read the safety guide. Harvested rainwater is not drinking water by default, and the app never says otherwise.
FREE, NO ACCOUNT NEEDED
The calculator, savings estimates, saved scenarios, Plate 01, the state-rules check, water-use ideas and the safety guide are free and work without an account. An account only backs your system up and carries it to another device.
RAINWATER HARVESTING PRO
An optional auto-renewing subscription, monthly or yearly, with a 7-day free trial, unlocks Plates 02-10, Guardian progression, the maintenance tracker with reminders and the equipment log. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends.
Family Vault
Your family info hub. All of your family's important information in one place.
The answers the counter is about to ask for: insurance IDs, Rx numbers, doctor and school details for everyone in your family, in seconds.
Family Vault keeps the numbers your family is always being asked for, insurance member IDs, Rx BIN and PCN, the doctor's and pharmacy's phone numbers, immunization dates, passport and license details, a pet's microchip number — and answers one question fast: which of these is the counter in front of me about to ask for?
Built for parents and caregivers who keep the paperwork for a household like school-age kids, an elderly parent, the pets. Unlike a scanner app that files pictures of documents, Family Vault keeps the values themselves, ready to read out or copy.
THE ANSWER PACK
Pick the desk you are standing at: the pharmacy counter, school enrollment, the vet, a doctor's front desk, the DMV — and Family Vault lays out exactly the answers that desk asks for, for the right person, in the order they ask. Tap a value to copy it.
FIVE-SECOND RECALL
Search across every person and pet in the household. Sensitive values stay masked until you reveal them with Face ID.
SMART CAPTURE
Photograph an insurance card, an immunization record or a license and its labelled fields are filled in for you. The photo is read once and discarded — never stored, shown or synced. Or type it from a template.
VALIDITY RUNWAY AND AHEAD
See what expires before you need it: the six-month passport rule, REAL ID, renewal cadences you set. The Ahead board lists what is coming up.
THE HANDOFF CARD
Leaving the kids with a sitter or a grandparent? Share a one-page card with exactly the details they need, with its redaction list printed on it.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Your vault works on your phone with no account. Sign in only if you want it on a second device. No ads, no tracking.
Family Vault is a records organizer. It gives no medical, legal or financial advice and is not a password manager.
EarthwickingTM
Reconnect with nature, one small moment at a time.
Two minutes outside still counts. Earthwicking gives you one short guided practice a day and measures the only nature number the research actually supports.
Every other wellness app measures the time you spend with it. Earthwicking measures the time you spend outside.
Made for people who want a short, daily outdoor practice — nature connection, mindfulness or quiet spiritual reflection — that fits a balcony or a back step as well as a forest.
THE TWO-HOUR LINE
A study of 19,806 people found that under 120 minutes of nature a week was no better than none, and 120 or more was — and that it made no difference whether that came from one long walk or a dozen small moments. That last part is the whole point. Two minutes under a tree is not a consolation prize; it is a deposit against the same line. Earthwicking shows you the week against that line, works out your own pace, projects where you will land, and tells you the smallest honest step that would clear it.
And when the week genuinely cannot be cleared, it says so, instead of inventing a target.
TODAY'S EARTHWICKING MOMENT
One short practice a day, two to ten minutes, dealt from a library of 67 and chosen for the Path you picked and the outdoor space you actually have. A balcony never gets handed a woodland practice.
THREE PATHS
Nature Connection for the senses and the ground under you, Nature Mindfulness for attention and breath, or Spiritual Connection for reflection and Scripture. Change it whenever you like.
SCREEN-DOWN TIMER
Start it, put the phone in your pocket, and go. The one screen this app wants is the one you close.
YOUR JOURNEY
Seed, Sprout, Young Plant, Sapling, Tree, Grove, Living Forest — earned on the Moments of a lifetime, so a missed day can never move you backwards. There is no streak in this app and the word does not appear in it.
WHERE THESE NUMBERS COME FROM
Every figure is named to its study, in the app, on one sheet. One claim we were asked for is refused there, and it says why.
Apps that are coming soon!
Rainwater Harvesting: Learn how a rainwater harvesting system works by building one step by step. This interactive app introduces system components, their functions, and basic design concepts in an approachable way for anyone interested in capturing and using rainwater.
Meet Bill & Zip! Bill E. Goat, a curious mini goat, and his best friend Zip, a retired trick horse, lead children on personalized adventures that combine storytelling with real environmental science. Each adventure encourages curiosity, kindness, outdoor exploration, and a love of nature through age-appropriate discoveries and activities.
Coming in 2027:
Focus Squirrel™ — Get Back on Track: Focus Squirrel helps you pick up right where you left off when interruptions or competing projects pull you away. Simply snap a temporary picture to “stash” your place, return when you’re ready, and earn an acorn each time you successfully get back on track, turning everyday distractions into visible wins.
Published Titles
The Resilient Household Audit
This book provides a practical method for evaluating the systems that support your home, including shelter, water, food, energy, waste and human well-being. It helps you identify strengths, uncover vulnerabilities and take manageable steps toward a more resilient household.
Kindle and Paperback
Cascade Water Cycling
Cascade Water Cycling introduces a new way of thinking about water, not as something consumed, but as something continuously reassigned to its highest remaining value. While many frameworks promote water reuse, circular systems, and sustainability, they often stop short of explaining how water should actually move through real systems. This book fills that gap.
Coming Soon!
Companion Planting for Beginners
Discover how thoughtful plant pairings can support healthier growth, discourage pests and create a more productive garden. This beginner-friendly guide makes it easier to understand and use nature’s growing partnerships.
Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover
Greenhouse Gardening for Beginners
Learn how to select a greenhouse that fits your space, climate and growing goals. Practical guidance helps new gardeners extend the growing season, raise healthy plants and produce more food at home.
Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover
Resilient Raised Beds
Explore traditional raised beds, wicking beds, Hügelkultur, keyhole gardens and self-watering container systems. This practical guide helps readers choose and develop a growing system suited to their property, resources and gardening goals
Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover
Soil Science for Beginners
Build a practical understanding of soil health for greenhouses, containers, raised beds and regenerative no-till gardens. Readers learn how soil structure, compost and organic amendments work together to support healthier plants.
Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover
The Food Forest
Revolution
Learn how to create a productive, resilient landscape by applying permaculture principles and observing how natural ecosystems function. The book introduces beginners to food forests, sustainable gardening and interconnected plant communities.
Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover
The Garden
Compass
A comprehensive gardening journal for planning, tracking and improving different types of gardens. Its organized recordkeeping system helps gardeners recognize patterns, evaluate results and make better growing decisions from season to season.
Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover
Prepping for the Rest of Us: Self-Reliance Without the Panic
A practical, approachable guide to preparedness that focuses on useful skills and thoughtful planning rather than fear. Readers can strengthen household resilience gradually through realistic, manageable actions.
Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover
Design for
Water
A comprehensive guide to collecting, storing and reusing water across residential, commercial and community settings. It covers rainwater harvesting, stormwater reuse, graywater, filtration and passive and active water systems.
Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover
Forgotten Rain: Rediscovering Rainwater Harvesting
An award-winning introduction to the principles and practical value of rainwater harvesting. It helps readers reconsider rain as a valuable resource that can support landscapes, households and more resilient water systems.
Paperback; availability may vary
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