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Celebrate Dia de San Juan

June 22, 2017 | Melissa Kruse-Peeples

The annual tradition of celebrating the onset of monsoon season in the Southwest begins with San Juan’s Day or Dia de San Juan on June 24. San Juan’s Day is the feast day for St. John the Baptist, the patron saint of water. The monsoons are coming and soon the life giving water from the sky will ...

Conservation Center Garden Updates: June 2017

June 20, 2017 | Michelle Langmaid

Article by Michelle Langmaid, Americorps VISTA Garden and Volunteer Coordinator, published June 21, 2017. There has been a lot of summer gardening activities at the Native Seeds/SEARCH Conservation Center. While the high temperatures, ground squirrels, and other pests have been a challenge, crop...

Varieties for Heritage Gardens

June 07, 2017 | Melissa Kruse-Peeples

The preservation of the footprints is rare, but the presence of ancient irrigation canals and fields is not. The Santa Cruz River Basin in the Tucson area has a 4,000 year old agricultural history. This legacy has resulted in a dense archaeological presence of agricultural fields. People have bee...

Conservation Farm Updates: May 2017

May 31, 2017 | Melissa Kruse-Peeples

By Melissa Kruse-Peeples, Education Coordinator. Published May 31, 2017. Activities are in full swing at the Conservation Farm this May. Cool season crops like peas, favas, and garlic are maturing in the field. Summer crops of corn, beans, and sunflowers have been planted in the fields. Chiles a...

Celebration of Cotton

May 29, 2017 | Michelle Langmaid

Whenever I am showing a new volunteer through the seed bank I can’t help myself from excitedly grabbing the container which houses the cotton seeds and saying something obvious like “Look! We have cotton seeds!” just as a small child might point out a brightly colored candy. This could be because...

Squash Pollination

May 16, 2017 | Melissa Kruse-Peeples

By Melissa Kruse-Peeples, NS/S Education Coordinator. Originally published July 25, 2014. Updated May 16, 2017. One of the most common gardening problems from those growing squash, cucumbers, or watermelons is the abundance of baby fruits, but none that grow to full size. The baby fruits shrivel ...

Ground Squirrels! Conservation Center Garden Update

April 24, 2017 | Michelle Langmaid

Article by Michelle Langmaid, Americorps VISTA Garden and Volunteer Coordinator, published April 24, 2017. Must be they’re hungry… We were all excited that the Mayo Garbanzo Beans had popped up and were leafing out beautifully. They were bright green, hydrated, and seemed generally healthy. Then ...

Tips for Container Gardening

April 17, 2017 | Laura Neff

When most people think of gardening, they think of large in ground plots or raised beds. From my experience, this picture tends to intimidate many people. Particularly those who are on a limited income, have limited space and time, live in a space where HOAs or landlords do not allow any renovat...

Beauty Queen Squash

April 11, 2017 | Sheryl Joy

We had a terrific growout of squash at the Conservation Farm last summer. Six different squash varieties were grown and had good harvests, but we wound up with a stunner of a harvest on one in particular!

How to Clean Gourds

March 24, 2017 | Laura Neff

Gourds are cleaned depending on what the use is to be – artistic crafts, food/water, birdhouse, rattle, etc. If it's intended for food/drinking the cleaning of the gourd must be precise to ensure that any mold or fungus is removed and disinfected. Gourds come in a diversity of sizes and shapes. ...

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