These bucket lights reduce light pollution, help restore our view of the stars when used to replace outdoor lights that produce more light pollution, and improve safety on the ground… According to the…
August 7, 2021
These multi-use rain-garden plants lists are invitations to collaborate with and enhance living systems in our shared built environments… They are the result of striving to transform simple plant lists into more dynamic…
There are three rain-garden planting zones, each for a different microclimate within a rain garden… Bottom – typically bottom of a basin or swale.Prone to temporary pooling of water and cold air (cool…
This is a month-by-month planting guide for food plants in the Tucson area, southern Arizona, and northern Sonora Mexico… It is compiled from Desert Harvest, Tucson Organic Gardeners’ Composter newsletter, Native Seeds/SEARCH planting…
Compiled by Brad Lancaster from various sources listed below Plant the following GOOD plants — especially those native to your area — within or beside water-harvesting earthworks around your goat pen and along…
Mostly native, plus a few exotic plants also loved by chickens. These plants grow well in Tucson, Phoenix, Hermosillo, and throughout the Sonoran Desert. All but the shortest plants provide shelter for the…
August 4, 2021
Willow Bend Environmental Education Center. Flagstaff, Arizona. Latitude 35.2˚ N. Elevation 6,911 feet (2,107 m). Average high temperature 61.2˚ F (16.2˚ C). Record high 99˚ F (37.2˚ C). Average low temperature 31.1˚ F…
August 3, 2021
Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Native Food Forest. Tucson, Arizona, USA. Latitude 32.2˚N. Elevation 2,555 feet (779 meters). Tucson, Arizona, USA. Average annual precipitation 11 inches (280mm)… Ideally, you plant the rain before you plant your…
Underwood Family Sonoran Landscape Laboratory. College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA). University of Arizona. Tucson, Arizona, USA. Latitude 32.2˚. Elevation 2,555 feet (779 meters). Average annual precipitation 11 inches (280 mm).…
Coast of Namibia. Latitude 18˚ 58’S to 16˚ 56’S There are a number of different fog-harvesting beetles such as Stenocara gracilipes in the dry, yet fog-rich, coastal area of Namibia. All the beetles…