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SUMMARY:Desert Harvesters/Neighborhood Foresters Hands-On Neighborhood Tree Pruning & Mulching Workshop\, September 29\, 2019 - Tucson\, Arizona
DESCRIPTION:Hands-On Neighborhood Tree-Pruning\n& Mulching Workshop\nAnd neighborhood chipping/mulching fee for service\, and neighborhood native plant delivery\,\nand help with planting service \n\nOpen to all \n\n\n\nSunday\, September 29\, 2019\nStarts at 8 am\, stay as long as you can or want\nCost: $5 suggested donation\, though no one will be turned away due to lack of funds\n\nMeet at Dunbar/Spring Community Garden/Orchard (NW corner of 11th Ave & University Blvd)\nAfter the pruning and mulching demonstration\, we will move to various parts of the neighborhood to get hands-on experience with certified arborist Aleck as we prune native food-bearing trees in our neighborhood’s public rights-of-way.\nThis is an incredible learning opportunity as every six months we revisit and rework areas pruned so we see the effect of our good work and mistakes\, thereby enabling us to improve and evolve with the expert guidance from Aleck.\nProfessionals can also get continued education credits for the workshop from Aleck.\nInstructors:\nLocal certified arborist Aleck MacKinnon\, The Pedaling Arborist; assisted by Brad Lancaster of Desert Harvesters and Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond;  and Omar Ore-Giron of Native Roots Gardening and Desert Harvesters will teach participants:\n– Best pruning times\, techniques\, and tools;\n– How best to maintain City clearance standards for trees in the public right-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.\nAfter the pruning\, we will turn the prunings into mulch by Tank’s Materials/Fairfax Company.\nThis 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. And we feed\, rather than degrade the living soil carbon sponge.\nThis is how to transform wasteful Brush & Bulky\ninto resourceful Chipped & Mulchy\n  \n\nChipping and Mulching Service for Fee/Donation\nIn the workshop we’ll show you how to efficiently cut up prunings in mulch with hand tools\, but for larger volumes of prunings we also offer a service for a minimum $20 donation whereby the prunings will be picked up by Omar and his trailer and taken to Tank’s Materials where they will be chipped and composted.\nIn return\, Omar will bring about a 1/2 yard of finished mulch back to you from Tank’s.\n(Note that the minimum donation for the service can vary based on the volume of your prunings).\n\nEmail Omar at nativeroots.az@gmail.com\nWe’ll also discuss other chipping/mulching services we are considering for future events.\n \nBring your own pruning tools\, though we will provide tools for those that lack them\n \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. Please prune accordingly to enable this.\nSee our Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Walkability Study\nSponsored by the Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Foresters and  Desert Harvesters\n\n\n \nIn addition\, now is a great time to plant your rain gardens to start to get them established over the cool months!\nSee wildflowers and native perennials with seed mixes available from Wildlands Restoration and sold at Native Seeds/SEARCH\, Tucson Audubon\, Spadefoot Nursery\, and Desert Survivors Nurseries.\nAlso\, this week is Desert Survivors’ Native Plant Nursery’s big fall plant sale!\nThis weekend the sale is for members. Tuesday on\, the sale is for everyone.\nSee the plant appendix of the new\, full-color Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, Volume 1\, 3rd Edition\nand ideal rain garden planting zones for the plants.\n \nNative plant purchase\, delivery\, and help with planting service in Dunbar/Spring neighborhood\nFor a $10 per 1-gallon-sized plant fee\, Brad will select\, purchase\, and deliver native plants for Dunbar/Spring residents\, as long as you:\n• you will be planting them within or beside a rain garden harvesting stormwater runoff\n• you will help plant them – we’ll help you\n• you agree to water and steward the plantings and their rain gardens to get the plants well- established.\nYou’ll need to water them at least once per week for the first year.\nThis is a great way to get more vibrant\, living sponges\, of mult-use native plants withing our community forest and public rain gardens (in public right-of-ways\, round-a-bouts\, chicanes\, etc.)\nEmail Brad at brad@harvestingrainwater.com if you are interested.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/desert-harvesters-neighborhood-foreseters-hands-on-neighborhood-tree-pruning-mulching-workshop-september-29-2019-tucson-arizona/
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