Categories
Blog

Before & after photos of green infrastructure in Dunbar/Spring

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 […]

Categories
Blog

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

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 […]

Categories
Blog

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 […]

Categories
Blog

The Rains Are Coming—Are Your Street-side Basin Inlets Ready or Clogged?

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 […]

Categories
Blog

Brad Lancaster awarded Citizen Forester of the Year

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 […]

Categories
Blog

Annual rain & native food forest plantings another success in 2021

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 […]

Categories
Blog

Native 1-gallon-sized cholla, prickly pear, and agave edibles available for planting

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). […]

Categories
Blog

Multi-lingual plant ID signs share the bounty of the neighborhood forest

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, […]

Categories
Blog

Dunbar/Spring Neighbors – get your order in for our annual Planting of Rain, Trees, & Native Food Forests by January 20

This is the the 25th year of our annual planting program. Get more info on the Event’s page here.

Categories
Blog

Get your pruning on — Brush & Bulky pick up Monday, January 11

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 […]