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The Resilient Household Audit

The Home Ecosystem Audit Method^TMfor Measuring, Visualizing and Strengthening Household Systems.

See your household as a connected ecosystem. Discover how water, energy, food, shelter, waste, and human needs work together, and where changes can build lasting resilience.

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Heather Kinkade, Author and Founder

Welcome to Forgotten Rain Publishing

Forgotten Rain Publishing exists to help people reconnect with living systems through practical knowledge, storytelling, resilience, water awareness, ecological thinking, and personal reconnection with the natural world.

The books and communities within Forgotten Rain Publishing are designed to work together as part of a larger Living Systems ecosystem. Some readers begin through water systems, some through children’s education, some through resilience planning, and others through nature connection and wellness.

No matter where you begin, the goal is the same:

To help people better understand the systems that support life.

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Cascade Water Cycling

A Practical Guide to Capturing, Treating, and Reusing Water for Resilient Communities

Cascade Water Cycling is more than a concept, it is a usable system.

It answers the critical question missing from today’s water conversations:

What should happen to this water next?

When we redesign how water moves, we don’t just conserve it, we multiply its value.

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Published Titles

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.

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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

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

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.