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Implementation is planned for this winter, exact dates will be announced once we have the permits.
Since 1996 this program has coordinated neighborhood & community volunteers to plant over 1,600 trees in the public rights-of-ways of the Dunbar/Spring neighborhood, along with hundreds of understory plants. These plantings are freely irrigated by rain and stormwater passively harvested within…
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Please come hone your pruning & mulching skills with us this Sunday, Sept. 29
Open to all!
Starts at 8 am, stay as long as you can or want
Cost: $5 suggested donation, though no one will be turned away due to lack of funds
Meet at Dunbar/Spring Community Garden/Orchard (NW corner of 11th Ave & University Blvd)
After the pruning and mulching demonstration, we will move to various…
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Open to all - Starts at 9am, stay as long as you can or want
Cost: $5 suggested donation, though no one will be turned away due to lack of funds.
Where: the Dunbar/Spring Community Garden/Orchard space (NW corner of 11th Ave and University Blvd).
After demonstration we will move to various parts of the neighborhood to get supervised hands-on experience as we help prune native and domesticated…
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Time: 8:00 am for a planting demonstration, then keep going to various parts of the neighborhood. The demonstration will show you how to plant the rain to maximize its potential, how to plant food-bearing native trees by seed and/or with nursery stock to maximize passive summer shading/cooling, and how to recycle/plant prunings and leaves as fertility-building, carbon-sequestering, pollutant…
Desert Harvesters/Neighborhood Foresters FREE Hands-On Neighborhood Tree Pruning & Mulching Workshop
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Meet at Dunbar/Spring Community Garden/Orchard (NW corner of 11th Ave & University Blvd)
After the pruning and mulching demonstration, we will move to various parts of the neighborhood to get hands-on experience with certified arborist Aleck as we prune native and domesticated food-bearing trees in our neighborhood’s public rights-of-way.
This is an incredible learning opportunity as every…
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This Saturday, Dec. 16th, 8am we'd love your help helping neighbors as we work to weed, plant, and prune the traffic circle and chicanes at or near 11th Ave and 1st Street.
We are doing so because:
If we don't, city-hired crews will likely clearcut or herbicide the perennial vegetation we want to grow
Surrounding neighbors have stepped up to help water new plantings to get them…
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Neighborhood foresters work to beautify their slice of the Tucson community
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Help green our streets and walkways with water- and mulch- harvesting rain gardens planted with native, food-bearing shade trees which contribute to cooler neighborhood temperatures in summer, attract native song birds, reduce downstream flooding, beautify our community, sequester carbon, and clean our air, water, and soil.
Tree Planting: Saturday, November 18, 2017
Meet at 7:30 am in front of…
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At minimum you can simply come to, and participate in our hands-on workshops or Work & Learn Stewarding Parties (fill out our contacts page to be alerted of these, or regularly check our Events page).
But we’d really like to help you lift your capabilities and experience, as you also give back more to your community, its forests, its watershed, its residents, and more by stepping up to…
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By Brad Lancaster
A bare beginning
When I moved to the Dunbar/Spring neighborhood in 1994 much of it was not a pleasant place to walk.
Most of the public right-of-way (the area between the street curb and property lines/fences) was just hot, bare dirt devoid of shade trees and other life. There were few sidewalks, but thankfully there was plenty of room for earthen footpaths. Yet many people…