Integrated Local Harvests

Free Public Talk (RSVP via link below) &
Optional Dinner ($10 prepaid via link below)

October 25, 2016
5:30–8pm

Venue: Robles Elementary School
Address: 9875 South Sasabe Road, Tucson, AZ 85736
Presenters: Brad Lancaster & Craig Sponholtz
The Altar Valley Conservation Alliance is hosting a free lecture by Brad Lancaster and Craig Sponholtz. Dinner ($10 prepaid) is also available prior to the talk–if you would like to join folks for this meal, please be sure to pay in advance via the link below.
Integrated Local Harvests: Simple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Natural Abundance of Your Home, Community, and the Larger World
This dynamic presentation shares patterns and strategies to harvest, integrate, and enliven free local resources such as rain-, grey-, and stormwaters, plus soil fertility, in a way that reduces erosion and maintenance, while freely growing more vegetation, fodder for livestock, and food for us. Scarcity is re-visioned into abundance simply through creative cycling and utilization of what is already at hand. Costly and consuming habits and infrastructure, disconnected from their surroundings, are reoriented and reconnected to maximize enriching opportunities.
You’ll see many examples of such transformation, including how once-dying wetlands and creek flows are being regenerated with simple hand-built structures made of on-site materials; how such structures are enhancing parts of the Altar Valley; how dirt roads are being reworked to stay dry and freely irrigate adjoining pasture, and how once-blighted, overheated neighborhood streets are being rejuvenated into thriving greenbelts of water, people, wildlife, art, food, and celebration by planting once-drained stormwater, seed, and yard prunings.
This talk is both an invitation for you to engage and partner with your natural surroundings and community, and a map showing you the way—by planting the rain, growing fertility, and more—to live as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!
RSVP for Integrated Local Harvests: Click to RSVP.
If you would like to ADD DINNER, $10 MUST BE PREPAID at this site, and you will receive a printed ticket.
Questions? Please e-mail kyle@altavalleyconservation.org.
Download the flyer here.