Our 27th annual Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Rain, Tree, & Food Forest Planting extended into the adjoining West University Neighborhood for a fourth year here in Tucson, Arizona. But as both neighborhoods […]
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What are food forests?
What are food forests? by A Public Affair, WORT, April 10, 2023 A food forest is a diverse planting of edible plants that attempts to mimic the ecosystems and patterns […]
The Dunbar Spring Neighborhood Foresters teamed up with youth volunteers from Ironwood Tree Experience this February to rehabilitate and renew street-runoff harvesting basins that had been built in 2010 (by […]
This is turning out to be a great native wildflower year out in the wild (beautiful at Picacho Peak Park right now) and here in the neighborhood where folks sowed […]
“Maintenance” often keeps sections of our communities treeless and lifeless when beneficial volunteer plants are weeded out. But if we hone our plant identification skills, we can instead learn to […]
Big thanks to the nine Dunbar Spring Neighborhood Foresters volunteers that helped prune, weed, clean up, and plant this water-harvesting traffic-calming chicane October 15, 2022 in the Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood, and […]
The Dunbar/Spring neighborhood in Tucson, Arizona has transformed excessively wide, hot, exposed streets with speeding cut-through traffic and solar oven-like, barren walkways to comparative oases with road-narrowing, traffic-calming, water-harvesting, green […]
Our 26th annual Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Rain, Tree, & Food Forest Planting extended into the adjoining West University Neighborhood for a third year here in Tucson, Arizona. But as both neighborhoods […]
In January 2022, Dunbar Spring Neighborhood Foresters volunteers worked over 75 hours with neighbors to prune over ten blocks of public right-of-way pedestrian paths to regain the City’s requirement of […]
The Dunbar/Spring neighborhood in Tucson, Arizona has transformed excessively wide, hot, exposed streets with speeding cut-through traffic and solar oven-like, barren walkways to comparative oases with road-narrowing, traffic-calming, water-harvesting, green […]