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Buena Vista Ranchos Neighborhood Garden Update

The garden is growing! With the help of numerous neighborhood volunteers, a Girl Scouts Troop and a few 4-H members, we have started a 25'x6' vegetable garden bed, a herbal area, a composting bin and planted 2 trees, an apple and a pomegranate.

In the vegetable bed, so far we've planted tomatoes, radishes, peppers, zucchini, spinach, beets, carrots, lettuce, beans and cucumbers. Some pretty good stuff! And in herbs we've got some rosemary, oregano, yarrow, and calendula. Oh

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Added by Alex Prescott on March 9, 2010 at 12:44pm — 1 Comment

News Flash!

Hocus Spokus

This Trick involved transforming bike parts into these Charity Flowers!

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Added by Valerie Roy on March 7, 2010 at 7:02pm — No Comments

Positive Vibrations (A Hadley Farmship Update)

Two years ago on the same Monday after the Bear Stearns collapse, my son arrived at his work place to find the doors shut. I was working on an elementry school in Maricopa and I remember sitting around the job trailor (do they still do that?) with the other foremen and discussing a thirties style run on the banks. Well, the feds more than doubled their garuntee on our deposits to 250,000 and garunteed another thirteen trillion in toxic assets that the "to big to fails" had dined on and everythin… Continue

Added by Charles Calbom on March 7, 2010 at 10:00am — 7 Comments

need you all to contact your government officials now, oppose HB2701 that will kill renewable energy in AZ

read the news and weep:
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/arizona-chokes-on-solar-policy-trumps-progress
http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2010/02/22/daily19.html

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Added by Randy Dunton on February 24, 2010 at 10:43pm — 3 Comments

Come Help!

Charity Flowers

COME HELP PAINT AND CREATE GARDEN ART !!!! Thursdays feb 25 and march 4th and Sundays feb 21 and 28 Until the sale event at Mitchell Park March 6 creating salable art for s… Continue

Added by Valerie Roy on February 18, 2010 at 9:23pm — No Comments

Farming: The Orginal "Green Collar Job"

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Added by Chris Byers on February 17, 2010 at 12:58pm — No Comments

Tomato Fest 2010

Anyone interested in spending a day hanging out at the farm with local Tomato growers, tasting some great food, and having some fun? If you are we are looking for a few volunteers to help out on Saturday Feb. 13th at the Tomato Fest. Please call Tami Staas 480-282-7104 if you are interested. Thanks Continue

Added by Tami Staas on February 11, 2010 at 6:49am — 5 Comments

Charity Flowers

Here is the result of a few friends and a few hours! The first bike part flowers started for the fundraiser to submit the plans for this garden project ( yet to be named) to the city! We will continue to hold open art time to work on this charity project in the weeks ahead watch for new dates... and times... **FUN***FUN***FUN TIME WE HAD being creative! Continue

Added by Valerie Roy on February 7, 2010 at 5:27pm — No Comments

Bucket Potatoes

I’m working on potatoes this year and will be trying to grow them in buckets. Five gallon buckets to be exact. I grew potatoes in Minnesota but have not tried them here in Arizona. I don’t know why because they are so good when they are young. Young, new, or baby potatoes – they are so tasty! I will grow several potato varieties this year and see how it works out.

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Added by David Parkin on February 7, 2010 at 4:04pm — 6 Comments

It’s 20*10, Refer a Friend, and Support Your Favorite Nonprofit

In celebration of our new year “twenty ten”, Carolyn Wells Photography is running a portrait promotion to help our favorite nonprofits. Here’s the scoop: First, choose your favorite nonprofit Second, pass the word on to your friends and family. For all portrait experiences booked with Carolyn Wells by February 14th, 2010 20% of all sales from that session will go to the nonprofit of your choice. It’s 20·10, so refer a friend When you and a friend book a portrait experience by V… Continue

Added by Carolyn Wells on February 2, 2010 at 1:50pm — No Comments

Barter - Labor help with garden project (Chaparral & 101)

I saw this on Craigslist Barter - Labor help with garden project (Chaparral & 101) Date: 2010-02-01, 4:23AM MST Reply to: gigs-zrnwg-1580355193@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?] We are building a community service garden project and need some help digging some shallow trenches for water lines, some holes for trees, preparing soil for planting and general lot cleanup. We really need to get the project done in the next few weeks, and we are running out of time and money, s… Continue

Added by Dana on February 1, 2010 at 7:08am — 4 Comments

Fifteen Months In: A Hadley Farmship Update

The Hadley Farmship is fifteen months old. The Hadley Farmship is on course. The Hadley Farmship just well may succeed. Followers of the farmship know that we are an experiment in relocalizing the food chain. The defination of what is success has been evolving through the months. The good news is that my expectations for the production ability of our little half acre permie site is increasing. The on the ground realities we have experienced over the last fifteen months have been encouraging. My… Continue

Added by Charles Calbom on January 31, 2010 at 8:30am — 8 Comments

Tomato Fest 2010

Slow Food Phoenix is hosting a heirloom tomato event on February 13 from 10am -4pm at the Maya's farm at The Farm at South Mountain. For full information go to http://www.slowfoodusa.org/index.php/events/detail/tomato_fest_2010/. Thanks, and I hope to see you there, Tami Staas Continue

Added by Tami Staas on January 26, 2010 at 9:32am — 1 Comment

FREE CITRUS!!

Did you know that if you volunteer for the Gleaning Projects here at AZHS, you can take home all the free citrus you would like?? Come join us Sunday as we glean citrus trees in Scottsdale. Continue

Added by Dana on January 25, 2010 at 9:07am — No Comments

Whew! Breathe!

Plan, Plan, Plan, Focus, Focus, Focus! But my little idea is very accepted and adored by all! So it is growing! On Saturday I presented the idea to the Mitchell Park Neighborhood Assoc. and on Sunday I met with Rebecca... a grad student and member of our sister project, Bike Saviours. she is writing a little grant to incorporate neighborhood sustainability and modeling for ASU that will include farming out worms and composting equipment and information. I've printed the materials for the Propo… Continue

Added by Valerie Roy on January 25, 2010 at 1:39am — No Comments

Worms

Does any know what is the best worms for best for our soil here in Maicopa Az jp Continue

Added by John P. Morgan on January 24, 2010 at 4:09pm — 3 Comments

My buckets runneth over

I don't have gutters or anything like that to catch water. So I set out some buckets Monday night. Tuesday morning, this is what I saw:

I added a cooler, and an oil drip pan, and Wednesday morning, saw this:

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Added by Korina Adkins on January 21, 2010 at 8:51am — 3 Comments

Healthy Eating Series: 5 Ways to Keep Your Healthy Eating Resolutions Alive

The National Cancer Institute recommends that we eat 5 to 9 servings of fruits and vegetables each day. But in this fast world of ours of shuffling between work, kids’ sports and after school activities and all, our foods tend to be convenience foods: fast food or just frozen pre-packaged convenience foods. Although the benefits of eating the recommended daily servings of fruits and vegetables are clear, with studies showing the likelihood of reduced risks of diseases, most of Americans still d… Continue

Added by Chris Byers on January 20, 2010 at 1:05pm — No Comments

Therapists Report Increase in Green Disputes

The New York Times January 18, 2010 By LESLIE KAUFMAN Gordon Fleming is, by his own account, an environmentally sensitive guy. He bikes 12 1/2 miles to and from his job at a software company outside Santa Barbara, Calif. He recycles as much as possible and takes reusable bags to the grocery store. Still, his girlfriend, Shelly Cobb, feels he has not gone far enough. Ms. Cobb chides him for running the water too long while he shaves or showers. And she finds it “depressing,” she tells him,… Continue

Added by Lisette Volkmar on January 18, 2010 at 9:33am — No Comments

Exciting Process!

Yesterday I spoke with Dianne at City Planning and printed the forms... eek almost 250 bucks to submit plans... I have a fun little fundraiser coming up... just got to get prototype hammered out ... At the last minute a class dropped so to keep in good standing with my scholarship I had to have a minimum # of credits.... SO my class switch was to Technical and Professional Writing! Perfect addition to -- well--- everything! Eventually I will be taking a class in grants writing so… Continue

Added by Valerie Roy on January 16, 2010 at 1:09pm — No Comments