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SUMMARY:Brad Lancaster\, Aleck MacKinnon\, Omar Ore-Giron with Desert Harvesters and Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Foresters: FREE Hands-On Neighborhood Tree-Pruning & Mulching Workshop\, February 10\, 2018 — Tucson AZ
DESCRIPTION:FREE Hands-On Neighborhood Tree-Pruning & Mulching Workshop\nplus\, an opportunity to get your prunings chipped into mulch for an extremely reasonable donation \nNeighborhood volunteer pruning crew—note the piles of fresh prunings on the curb\, ready for chipping\nSaturday\, February 10\, 2018\nStarts at 9 am—stay as long as you can or want\nMeet at Dunbar/Spring Community Garden/Orchard (NW corner of 11th Ave & University Blvd)\nAfter the demonstration\, we will move to various parts of the Dunbar/Spring neighborhood to get hands-on experience with Aleck as we prune native and domesticated food-bearing trees in the neighborhood’s public rights-of-way. \nInstructors: \nLocal certified arborist Aleck MacKinnon (The Pedaling Arborist)\,\nBrad Lancaster (Desert Harvesters and Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond)\, and\nOmar Ore-Giron (Native Roots Landscaping) \nParticipants will learn: \n– Best pruning times\, techniques\, and tools; \n– Best practices to maintain City clearance standards for trees in public rights-of-way along footpaths and streets; and \n– How to reuse prunings (cut up with hand tools or chipped with chipper/shredder) as an aesthetically-pleasing\, water-conserving\, fertility-enhancing mulch. \nImmediately after the pruning\, we will turn the prunings into mulch with a chipper/shredder that will be moving through the neighborhood behind the pruners.\nIn this way the pruned biomass is recycled back into the root zone of the trees it came from. Nothing is thrown away or removed from the natural system. \nThis is how to transform wasteful Brush & Bulky\ninto resourceful Chipped & Mulchy\nCome learn how you can replicate and evolve this practice to grow more healthy forests and citizen foresters in your neighborhood.\nThis workshop is open to and can be attended by EVERYONE\, no matter what neighborhood you live in.\nNOTE: All public rights-of-way in front of properties must maintain a minimum continuous clear walkway area 5 feet wide and 7 feet tall to make our neighborhood walkways and forests easily navigable for all. \nSee our Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Walkability Study \nSponsored by the Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Foresters\nand Desert Harvesters \nChipping Service (by donation): Turn “wastes” into resources\, as you transform your prunings into mulch\nThroughout the pruning-workshop day\, Omar Ore-Giron will be operating a rented industrial chipper-shredder to quickly turn prunings into mulch. To cover costs he will be asking for a donation of $30 per property for those using the chipper services. This is an amazing deal\, as this would ordinarily cost well over $100 per property.\nPruning Requirements and Guidelines for Neighborhood Mulching Service: \n• Contact Omar (nativeroots.az@gmail.com\, (520) 425-9795) by Friday\, February 9\, to let him know you want your prunings mulched. Suggested minimum donation is $30. \n• All public rights-of-way adjoining all properties must maintain/prune a continuous clear walkway a minimum 5 feet wide and 7 feet tall\, so two people can comfortably walk along the path side by side without having to duck under limbs. Violations are subject to citations from the City of Tucson. \n• All piles of prunings left beside street curb (for chipping into mulch) should contain ONLY freshly pruned green limbs 3” in diameter or less. \n• No old\, dry dead wood will be chipped into mulch\, as this dulls the chipper blades too quickly. \n• Pile branches so branch butts are all facing in the same direction. This helps ensure that the pile of prunings is not tangled\, but rather is orderly and therefore easy to take apart to chip into mulch. \n• Wide branch “crotches” or “V’s” should be cut at their base\, so the branch will fit into the chipper (no diameter can exceed 3 inches). \n• All piles must be on the street curbside before chipping service arrives on site. \nThis is a wonderful opportunity to: \n• Meet neighbors\, build community\, and expand your knowledge of local plants and ecology\, \n• Prune your trees in a way that will improve their health and reduce future need to prune\, \n• Make walking and bicycling in our neighborhood more convenient\, enjoyable\, and safe\, \n• Keep our trees’ useful biomass and fertility in our neighborhood\, \n• Increase our living soil’s ability to bioremediate/filter pollutants\, \n• Enhance our soil’s ability to absorb and hold onto water—lessening flooding AND reducing water bills\, and \n• Maximize the amount of carbon we can beneficially sequester in our soils and trees. \nBring hat\, work gloves\, water bottle\, and pruning tools if you have them (we will also have some for those without).\nIf you have trees in need of some pruning\, prunings in need of chipping into mulch\, or would like to participate\, please contact:\nOmar Ore-Giron\, Dunbar/Spring resident and owner of Native Roots Landscaping\, at nativeroots.az@gmail.com or (520) 425-9795. \n\n\n\n\nRight-of-way footpath before pruning…\n\n…and after pruning!
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