Hey VPA!!! I need some help completing a modest city lot with large ambitions!
I have contoured a flat lot with peripheral berms and internal swales to catch and hold rainwater on the property. I have semiannually sort of beaten back the weeds and goa
Read more…Hi, I'm trying to find a source or a spot to aquire some native grasses. like az fescue,blue gama, cotton top. Reason being I want to plant a non irrigated pasture to replace an irrigated one. Native seed search has them but there expensive if I coul
Read more…Looking for just 4 +/- reasonably affordable straw bales (organic "preferably" but not required) to purchase at this late winter time of year. I live in Tempe.
As a secondary item, may be looking for a source of free or affordable clean wood chips w
Read more…Does anyone have seeds from a Sonoran passion vine? Or a vine I could get cuttings from?
Read more…Hello Permies!
I'm planing on putting in some sugar cane someplace in the garden and I'm not sure where the best place to plant it is. Everywhere I read is says to plant sugar cane in full sun but we all know what that can mean here - fried plants co
Read more…Hey everyone, VPA is currently looking for mesquite trees for a bean harvesting event. If you have mesquite trees with ripe beans still on the trees or know of locations that might be good for harvesting, please let me know (reply to this discussion
Read more…Hi everyone, I just happened to read an article on mesquite flour and am very intrigued. I was wondering if you can tell me where I can buy some local flour or if any of you to are selling some? thx
Read more…I live near a street that has older fruiting olive trees. I have harvested for curing but would love to take some to the Queen Creek Olive mill to be processed for oil. The problem is the Mill requires a true cooperative amount of 300 pounds or about
Read more…New Farmers Market opening in Tempe seeks backyard growers, master gardeners and small-scale producers! The Market is a program of the Tempe Community Action Agency, and will operate Saturday mornings starting January 11, 2014.
If you have plants yo
Read more…I am organizing a Food Day fair at Phoenix College on October 24. I'm looking for community members doing interesting things who would be willing to host an informative or interactive table. This is a great way to reach out to the community with what
Read more…does anyone have a tree i can come by and pick some for the milling this weekend? carob and/or mesquite?
i trimmed my mesquite tree in the Spring and hardly got any pods for the first time, bummer, won't do that again.....
i live in scottsdale but i wi
Read more…The VPA Seed Library has seeds to share of edible desert plants, vegetables, herbals, ornamentals and many others. Come check out our collection. We'd love to have some of your saved seeds to increase our variety of desert adapted edibles. It's f
Read more…Join the NEW Edible Desert Committee at the VPA!!!
Help plan and run some of the core events that Valley Permaculture Alliance offers, including the annual fruit tree sale, mesquite milling and the mesquite pancake breakfast, as well as offer ideas f
Read more…monsoon season is a good time for planting. try devil's claw, gourds, sorghum, basil, panic grass, corn, squash, beans and chiles. my I'itoi shallots are re-sprouting from their dormant stage too. rain is nice.
Read more…Please check out the original article at: http://www.lcsun-news.com/las_cruces-healthy_u/ci_21215445/bermuda-grass-makes-helpful-tea
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Read more…Has anyone had any luck at growing edibles under mesquite tree? If so, what? I'm looking at possibly adding a mesquite on the west side of my chicken coop. I have a passion fruit vine trailing up it currently, but it isn't looking so good. The tree w
Read more…Hi all,
I apologize for sending you all a message - got confused on where to start a discussion here, kind of strange having the ADD button down so far past really old topics.
At any rate, I had to bathe the horse today and pulled off a few pods from t
Read more…I'm wondering if anyone has experience growing this grape in the outlying areas of the Valley? I'm at just over 2000' elevation and wonder how I might get this plant, perhaps a cutting or seed. But I don't know where to find it in the wild and unsure
Read more…Call for Coops and an invitation for Native & Perennial Foods Group to have a presence at one of the coops! The tour is educational as well as fun, and we want to expose the group to a large audience. If you have an interesting coop (or know someone
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