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Dunbar/Spring & West University Neighbors – get your order in for our annual Planting of Rain, Trees, & Native Food Forests by December 30

Planting crew after finishing planting and mulching (with cut-up prunings made while pruning to regain public path access). Prunings are cut up into 6-inch long or smaller pieces to use as mulch. Larger pieces would look and act as a brush pile rather than mulch. Curb core drilled three days after photo taken. Photo: Brad Lancaster

This is the the 26th year of our annual planting program in Dunbar/Spring
and the 3rd year of our annual planting program in West University.

Get more info on the Event’s page here.

Happy neighborhood planters post planting. Hose is giving the new plantings needed water. Plants need supplemental irrigation the first 1 to 3 years after planting to get established. After that, the harvested stormwater will provide all the water they need for free.
Basin harvesting stormwater. Plants growing well six months after planting. Photo reproduced with permission from “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2, 2nd Edition” by Brad Lancaster