Working with our Alzheimers Community
Our Master Gardener Amy is putting together a diggen in the dirt program for Alzheimer clients at Horses Help. If you would like to get in on planning let me know.
Read more…Our Master Gardener Amy is putting together a diggen in the dirt program for Alzheimer clients at Horses Help. If you would like to get in on planning let me know.
Read more…Hi, I was wondering if any one has experience with the hugelkultur beds. I would like to make a small one in my front yard not six feet tall but maybe 3 or 4 feet.
also, does anyone recommend planting agave or cacti with vegetables and edible flowers
Read more…I'm surprise that there are no good videos on youtube of a permaculture garden in Arizona. It would be nice to see how this is working with the soil and vegetation here.
Read more…Hello Everyone, I'm so glad I found this group! I'm totally new to permaculture... and gardening for a matter of fact. Not because I didn't have the opportunities but because I was blind and didn't understand the importance of learning to be self sus
Read more…Sorry for asking so much questions lately but is anyone familiar with soapberry? I'm finding that even in trying to make my own soap I'm still using castile oil or Lye and I was searching for a more natural way to do it. I found that the sapindus sap
Read more…I,m wondering about mesquite beans
Read more…Call for Coops and an invitation for North Scottsdale, Cave Creekc Carefree Permies 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
Read more…Hello, We are new to this community but would like to have meet ups over tea to get to know each sub group and the community as a whole. Please contact us with ideas or info that may help us to serve the community in a way that helps generate interac
Read more…I am collecting mequite beans and would like to know if anyone has put them in a vitamix dry container to make flour? Also, where is the closest mill?
Read more…I'd like to take advantage of the evaporative drip of my air conditioner by building a small, raised bed under it and planting something like mint. Does anyone have any experience with particular types (spearmint, peppermint)in this area? Or even kno
Read more…I square foot garden which has worked great for me except for squash. This year I would like to try raising squash in large containers so they don't take over the whole yard. Has anyone had success with this? Any advice? Thanks so much!!!
Read more…I planted some organic garlic cloves in one section of my raised bed garden. Something is digging them up during the night. The cloves are in tact with the sprouts on the top and the roots on the bottom just laying on top of the soil. I covered th
Read more…Hey people of the NE Valley, Anyone interested in seeing The Bucket Garden installed in person?? Join us On Sat 10/30 at noon for my installation. Come help or just come watch and ask questions. I am just off Greenway and 32nd Street. Let me know if
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Diann Peart and I are the official chairs of this year's home tour schedule and we're thinking about changing the focus just a little. We'd like to begin touring homes/gardens that have some working system they're using that they'd like to sh
would anyone out there like to get together for a raw foods potluck? i could look for a space in north scottsdale.......i could do a demo...........and share my experience with solar dehydrating............
ariane
This evening I had a chance to see the fruit trees that my friend, Theresa Rigney planted last year from the PPG's fruit tree program. What beauties! The peach trees are very full and about 7 feet tall; apples are about 5 feet and also beautiful. I'm
Read more…Great to meet members of our Permie group last night at Greg Peterson's Fruit Tree talk at C4 in Cave Creek! We had a total of 11 gardeners in the class. I mentioned a natural glass cleaner that I had purchased at the Downtown Phoenix Farmer's Market
Read more…I would like to find a group near me you sound like the closest.Treasa
Read more…I've been searching for a way to actually GET vegetables from my garden. Have been sharing too much with the rodents! I live 1/4 mile s. of Carefree Hwy. in the middle of ground squirrel land. So I decided to tour some nearby successful gardens: the
Read more…Has anyone out there had any experience with growing avocado trees?I've had varying information from nurseries.Thanks!
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