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 […]
Author: 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 […]
Time to weed
With our abundant summer rains it is NOW time to remove invasive weeds before they spread their seed. The time you spend on weeding now, will pay off multi-fold in […]
By Brad LancasterThis blog entry is reproduced with permission from www.HarvestingRainwater.com Like much of the country, we are in a record drought with record heat that is drying us out […]
The Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management awarded Brad Lancaster, co-founder of the Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Foresters, with the 2021 Citizen Forester of the Year. The following is Brad’s acceptance […]
Our 25th annual Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Rain, Tree, & Food Forest Planting extended into the adjoining West University Neighborhood for a second year. But as both neighborhoods are part of/share the […]
Staghorn cholla Cholla flower buds are a delicious native food you can grow at home or in the public right-of-way (as long as you keep public walkways clear and accessible). […]
Scroll down for 2024 updates. Multi-lingual plant identification signs were just installed in the Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Forest to help folks learn more about the rich Sonoran Desert life around them, […]
This is the the 25th year of our annual planting program. Get more info on the Event’s page here.
Brush & Bulky pick up starts Monday, January 11, 2021 in Dunbar/Spring and adjacent neighborhoods. For a city-wide schedule of Brush & Bulky pick ups and more info see:https://www.tucsonaz.gov/es/brush-and-bulky So […]