I’ve harvested over 200 gallons of DRY mesquite pods as of early July 2023. Choosing Mesquite Trees for Landscapes & How to Identify Different Species More About Mesquite Multi-Use Plant […]
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See how we harvest over 30,000 gallons (114,000 liters) of roof runoff in tree basins to passively shade and cool the building from which we harvest the water. This system […]
Light colored exterior walls—exposed to full sun—are over 25˚F (˚C) cooler than darker colored walls; while shaded walls (whatever the color) are over 45˚F (˚C) degrees cooler than walls exposed […]
Summer 2023 Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Foresters volunteers spent a combined 80 hours in late May, June and early July pruning vegetation along our neighborhood’s street-side public paths in the public rights-of-ways […]
Click on the video above to see Brad Lancaster show how native food-bearing trees and understory vegetation planted within or beside passive rain- and stormwater-harvesting rain gardens is able to […]
January 2025 update:We got the permit f0r four water-harvesting, traffic-calming chicanes, and hope to start construction later this month. Brad got funding from an Inflation Reduction Act grant through the […]
Download and/or view a high-resolution 2023 version of the map Then zoom in to see the details. Compare the 2023 version of the map to the originally released 2022 version […]
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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 […]
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 […]