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Curbside capture of desert rain

Curbside capture of desert rain by Living on Earth, Public Radio’s Environmental News Magazine, June 2, 2023 Podcast on how our Dunbar/Spring neighborhood, and its Neighborhood Foresters volunteers, harvest over […]

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Annual rain & native food forest plantings another success in 2023

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 […]

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Silted-in street-runoff-harvesting basins rehabilitated & renewed

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 […]

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Time to enjoy and support our native wildflowers

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 […]

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Stewarding, not killing, volunteer plants—to reforest a section of neighborhood for free

“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 […]

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Neighborhood Foresters clean up, plant, and steward neighborhood water-harvesting, traffic-calming green infrastructure

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 […]

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Before and after photos of green infrastructure in Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood

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 […]

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Annual rain & native food forest plantings another success in 2022

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 […]

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Neighborhood Foresters regain access for public paths, clean up 15 traffic circles and chicanes, & remove overhead utility conflicts

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 […]