Capturing Water
Radio 2050 episode 36, April 2024 interview with Brad Lancaster on life-enhancing efforts such as rain-irrigated neighborhood native food forestry and much more.
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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 a million gallons per year of stormwater from our streets to freely irrigate the native food forests we plant and steward, which shade and cool…
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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 found in nature. By planting in a way that mimic a natural forest where the pants grow together vertically. The idea is to create a…
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‘A living pantry’: how an urban food forest in Arizona became a model for climate action
A decades-old neighborhood project in Tucson provides food to residents as well as shade to cool streets in the third-fastest warming city in the US… Read the whole story.
Neighborhood foresters work to beautify their slice of the Tucson community
You might think Brad Lancaster is pulling your leg when he tells you he’s a “neighborhood forester” in the cactus-studded desert city of Tucson.
Not at all…
Neighbors: Area’s trees creating cool urban effect
In past 15 years, Dunbar/Spring has planted over 1,200
Stephanie Innes Arizona Daily Star, Nov 21, 2010 Updated Nov 29, 2010