Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Foresters
WHEN: 7am – 10am, Sunday, April 27, 2025 WHERE: We start 7am on the south (2nd Street) side of 902 N. 10th Avenue in the Dunbar/Spring neighborhood. Then around 8am we plan to plant a basin on the west (2nd Ave) side of 612 E. 2nd Street in the West University neighborhood. Come help us […]
WHEN: 6am – 10am, Saturday, May 10, 2025 WHERE: We start 6am on the northwest corner of Catalina Park (5th Avenue and 1st Street) then head to 3rd Ave and 2nd Street, and finally 3rd Ave and 1st Street. Come help us plant six large new street-side, water-harvesting, eddy basins — installations in the public […]
Starts at 6am We start early to beat the heat. Stay as long as you can or want. We plan to be wrapped up with the supervised pruning in the neighborhood by 9am Cost: $5 suggested donation, though no one will be turned away due to lack of funds. Where: We’ll start in the public […]
Time & Date: 7:20pm, Thursday, July 17th, 2025 Where: SE corner of 9th Avenue and University Blvd by the community bulletin board, Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood, Tucson, AZ Kathy Gerst, Conservation Research Coordinator, with Bat Conservation International (batcon.org) will lead the walk and talk as we identify what species of bats are out and about at dusk […]
Brush and bulky pick up in the Dunbar/Spring neighborhood is on July 21, 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
For all the info & to get tickets go here.
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, […]
For all the info & to get tickets go here
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 […]
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 […]