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  • Welcome
    • Growing Neighborhood Forests
    • Planting Rain, Plants, & Community Capacity
    • Planting Native Seeds with the Rains
    • Growing & Harvesting Wild Foods
    • Growing Wildlife Habitat & Diversity
    • Enhancing Forest Access
    • Stewarding the Forest & Its Foresters
    • Accomplishments
  • Events
  • Blog
  • Media
    • Gallery
    • Press
    • Social Media
    • Videos
  • Be a Neighborhood Forester
    • Four Levels of Neighborhood Foresters
    • Neighborhood Forester Inspirations
  • Neighborhood Rain, Tree, & Understory Plantings
    • Example List of Planting Sites & Work
    • Example Permit for Neighborhood Planting
    • Maintenance / Stewarding Agreement for Neighborhood Plantings
    • Organizing a Neighborhood Planting
    • Permitting a Neighborhood Planting
    • Promotion of Neighborhood Plantings and More
  • Resources
    • Favorite local native plant nurseries
    • Seed mixes for Sonoran Desert stormwater-harvesting rain gardens
    • Wolfberry bush, its edible parts, & more
    • Cholla cactus, its edible parts, & more
    • Prickly pear cactus, its edible parts, & more
    • Recommended Native Tree & Understory Plant Lists
    • Choosing Mesquite Trees for Landscapes & How to Identify Different Species
    • More About Mesquite
    • Ethnobotanical (Human Uses of Plants) Resources
    • Invasive Plants to Remove
    • Recommended contractors for hire
    • Recommended Plants
  • Work & Learn Stewarding Parties & Guides
    • Planting
    • How To Plant a Desert Tree
    • Plant Purchases & Delivery
    • Pruning & Mulching
    • A Guide to Pruning Native Sonoran-Desert Multi-Trunk Trees
    • Podar Árboles Nativos del Desierto Sonorense
    • Enhancing Pedestrian Access
    • Water Harvesting
    • Weeding
    • Graffiti Removal
  • Contact & Sign Up
  • Map
  • Donate
  • Recommended Plants
  • Welcome
    • Growing Neighborhood Forests
    • Planting Rain, Plants, & Community Capacity
    • Planting Native Seeds with the Rains
    • Growing & Harvesting Wild Foods
    • Growing Wildlife Habitat & Diversity
    • Enhancing Forest Access
    • Stewarding the Forest & Its Foresters
    • Accomplishments
  • Events
  • Blog
  • Media
    • Gallery
    • Press
    • Social Media
    • Videos
  • Be a Neighborhood Forester
    • Four Levels of Neighborhood Foresters
    • Neighborhood Forester Inspirations
  • Neighborhood Rain, Tree, & Understory Plantings
    • Example List of Planting Sites & Work
    • Example Permit for Neighborhood Planting
    • Maintenance / Stewarding Agreement for Neighborhood Plantings
    • Organizing a Neighborhood Planting
    • Permitting a Neighborhood Planting
    • Promotion of Neighborhood Plantings and More
  • Resources
    • Favorite local native plant nurseries
    • Seed mixes for Sonoran Desert stormwater-harvesting rain gardens
    • Wolfberry bush, its edible parts, & more
    • Cholla cactus, its edible parts, & more
    • Prickly pear cactus, its edible parts, & more
    • Recommended Native Tree & Understory Plant Lists
    • Choosing Mesquite Trees for Landscapes & How to Identify Different Species
    • More About Mesquite
    • Ethnobotanical (Human Uses of Plants) Resources
    • Invasive Plants to Remove
    • Recommended contractors for hire
    • Recommended Plants
  • Work & Learn Stewarding Parties & Guides
    • Planting
    • How To Plant a Desert Tree
    • Plant Purchases & Delivery
    • Pruning & Mulching
    • A Guide to Pruning Native Sonoran-Desert Multi-Trunk Trees
    • Podar Árboles Nativos del Desierto Sonorense
    • Enhancing Pedestrian Access
    • Water Harvesting
    • Weeding
    • Graffiti Removal
  • Contact & Sign Up
  • Map
  • Donate
  • Recommended Plants
  • Welcome
    • Growing Neighborhood Forests
    • Planting Rain, Plants, & Community Capacity
    • Planting Native Seeds with the Rains
    • Growing & Harvesting Wild Foods
    • Growing Wildlife Habitat & Diversity
    • Enhancing Forest Access
    • Stewarding the Forest & Its Foresters
    • Accomplishments
  • Events
  • Blog
  • Media
    • Gallery
    • Press
    • Social Media
    • Videos
  • Be a Neighborhood Forester
    • Four Levels of Neighborhood Foresters
    • Neighborhood Forester Inspirations
  • Neighborhood Rain, Tree, & Understory Plantings
    • Example List of Planting Sites & Work
    • Example Permit for Neighborhood Planting
    • Maintenance / Stewarding Agreement for Neighborhood Plantings
    • Organizing a Neighborhood Planting
    • Permitting a Neighborhood Planting
    • Promotion of Neighborhood Plantings and More
  • Resources
    • Favorite local native plant nurseries
    • Seed mixes for Sonoran Desert stormwater-harvesting rain gardens
    • Wolfberry bush, its edible parts, & more
    • Cholla cactus, its edible parts, & more
    • Prickly pear cactus, its edible parts, & more
    • Recommended Native Tree & Understory Plant Lists
    • Choosing Mesquite Trees for Landscapes & How to Identify Different Species
    • More About Mesquite
    • Ethnobotanical (Human Uses of Plants) Resources
    • Invasive Plants to Remove
    • Recommended contractors for hire
    • Recommended Plants
  • Work & Learn Stewarding Parties & Guides
    • Planting
    • How To Plant a Desert Tree
    • Plant Purchases & Delivery
    • Pruning & Mulching
    • A Guide to Pruning Native Sonoran-Desert Multi-Trunk Trees
    • Podar Árboles Nativos del Desierto Sonorense
    • Enhancing Pedestrian Access
    • Water Harvesting
    • Weeding
    • Graffiti Removal
  • Contact & Sign Up
  • Map
  • Donate
  • Recommended Plants
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  • September 2025

  • Mon 1

    Brush and bulky pick up in West University Neighborhood, Tucson, AZ – get your pruning done ahead of time

    September 1, 2025

    Brush and bulky pick up in West University neighborhood is on September 1, 2025, so be sure to place any prunings you want hauled away, on the street curb before then. If you set your prunings out about three weeks before brush and bulky pick up, most leaves will dry up and fall off prunings […]

    Free
  • October 2025

  • Wed 8

    Deadline to sign up for installation of rain gardens and plantings with the 30th Annual Dunbar/Spring (& 7th Annual West University) Neighborhood Rain, Tree, & Native Food Forest Planting – Tucson, AZ

    October 8, 2025

    Deadline for placing an order: October 8,  2025 For placing an order in 2026, follow the same steps below ASAP First step: Sign up on the Neighborhood Foresters Contact page here Second step: Fill out, sign, & return this maintenance/stewarding agreement to NeighborhoodForesters@gmail.com. Third step: If you want to qualify for Tucson Water’s rainwater harvesting […]

  • Sun 19

    Guided water-harvesting home & neighborhood block tour

    October 19, 2025 @ 8:00 am - 10:00 am

    For all the info & to get tickets go here.

    $15
  • Sun 26

    Cyclovia in Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood and other neighborhoods to the north of us

    October 26, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

    The Living Streets Alliance is organizing Cyclovia Sunday, October 26, 2025 from 9am to 3pm, and it is coming to the Dunbar/Spring neighborhood in the southern part of the route. This is a wonderful event where streets along the route are closed off to cars, but fully open to all human-powered transportation (walking, bicycling, scootering, […]

  • November 2025

  • Sun 9

    Guided water-harvesting home & neighborhood block tour

    November 9, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am

    For all the info & to get tickets go here

    $15
  • January 2026

  • Mon 26

    Brush and bulky pick up in Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood, Tucson, AZ – get your pruning done ahead of time

    January 26

    Brush and bulky pick up in the Dunbar/Spring neighborhood is on January 26, 2026, so be sure to place any prunings you want hauled away, on the street curb before then. If you set your prunings out about three weeks before brush and bulky pick up, most leaves will dry up and fall off prunings […]

  • March 2026

  • Sat 7

    Native edible & medicinal plant walk & talk with bioregional herbalist & author John Slattery

    March 7 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
    SE corner of 9th Ave & University Blvd, Dunbar/Spring neighborhood, Tucson, Arizona SE corner of 9th Avenue and University Blvd, Tucson, AZ, United States

    Come learn of the many uses of Sonoran Desert native plants you can plant, grow, and collaborate with where you live, work, and play. Bioregional herbalist, John Slattery, author of Southwest Foraging and Southwest Medicinal Plants will lead this informative plant walk & talk in the Dunbar/Spring neighborhood rain-irrigated native food forest that neighbors have been […]

  • Sat 21

    30th annual community planting of new street-side, water-harvesting basins in the public rights-of-ways of the Dunbar/Spring neighborhood – Tucson, AZ

    March 21 @ 6:00 am - 8:00 am

    WHEN: 6am – 8am, Saturday, March 21, 2026 WHERE: We will gather plants and tools at 6am at 813 N. 9th Avenue, then go around the corner to plant at 722 and 730 N. Perry Ave in the Dunbar/Spring neighborhood. Once we are done with those plantings we will move a block or so away […]

  • Sat 28

    7th annual community planting of new street-side, water-harvesting basins in the public rights-of-ways of the West University neighborhood – Tucson, AZ

    March 28 @ 6:00 am - 10:00 am

    WHEN: 6am – 10am, Saturday, March 28, 2026 WHERE: 848 N. 3rd Avenue, Depending on how many folks show up, and how quick we plant, we may also continue to plant basins at 1007 N. 3rd Ave - (you'll see us on 1st Street just west of 3rd Ave). Come help us plant seven new […]

  • April 2026

  • Sat 11

    7th annual community planting of new street-side, water-harvesting basins PART 2 in the public rights-of-ways of the West University neighborhood – Tucson, AZ

    April 11 @ 6:30 am - 10:00 am

    WHEN: 6:30am – 10am, Saturday, April 11, 2026 WHERE: 437 E. 1st Street, When we finish planting the two basins at that site we'll plant the last basin at 502 E. 2nd Street Come help us plant three new street-side, water-harvesting, eddy basins  — installations in the public commons, planted and stewarded by the participating […]

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