Join us outside to learn how to plant your own rain garden at home on Saturday, September 16 from 8:00am - 11:00am. Rain gardens help capture rainwater, conserve city water used for irrigation, cool down sidewalks, reduce flooding, and provide habitat for bees, birds, and butterflies. After you attend a hands-on workshop, you can take home a complimentary...
September 16, 17, and 18, 2023 Southwestern Research Station, Portal, Cochise County Questions or More Information: Please contact Doug Ripley at [email protected] The Cochise and Tucson Chapters of the Arizona Native Plant Society are again sponsoring a long weekend in the Chiricahua Mountains of southeastern Cochise County. These richly diverse mountains are one the northern-most islands in...
Join Mike Foster, our Carr House host, to learn more about the plants of the Huachuca Mountains. Mike’s presentation will start with a short video about many of the plant species in the Madrean Evergreen Woodlands surrounding Carr House. You’ll learn about the “sky islands” of the Huachuca Mountains and how plants here more closely...
Join Ash Ritter, ethnobotanist & herbalist, in a presentation weaving historical, clinical, and traditional context with the fabulous world of edible and medicinal mushrooms. Learn how to maximize the therapeutic value...
While buffelgrass has been enemy #1 in our desert ecosystem for many years now, a new foreign invader called stinknet has been spotted more and more in greater Tucson recently. Stinknet is a triple threat of flammable, highly allergenic, and fast spreading. It has land managers on high alert. UofA Cooperative Extension invasive species educator...