Tree planting
Well the Tree Planting event on April 25th was a huge success. Here are more pictures for all to see.
Thanks to Megyn Scott for sending me the images.
AZHS YouTube Channel
I should have posted this a while back but Arizona Homegrown Solutions now has it’s own YouTube Channel:
The goal will be to get more videos up there on sustainability and the groups progress in the valley as time goes on.
So this is the first post I am making on the development of the myToolBox web application. These are just a simple set of tools to use along side other web applications. I am developing them for Arizona Homegrown Solutions to help solve some small little problems we are running into here and there. Right now it is not all that impressive since a lot of the development time has been spent learning javascript, php, and mysql. I knew them to some degree before due to my exposure making web applications in the Ruby on Rails platform, but not to the degree I know now. Read the rest of this entry »
Well another successful Citrus Glean. We had about 14 volunteers and managed to fill up the whole U-HAUL trailer. I was worried at first that we may not have enough people but I was wrong. We had enough. The other nice thing was that we had repeat people. Five people that were at the very first glean that we had also showed up for this one. I guess they had so much fun that they decided to come back. Read the rest of this entry »
So today at Sahuaro Ranch Park I attended the Glendale Green Festival. Well, I didn’t really attend I was just there to help Jennifer Fish with her Seedballs For Children event. After it all I’m giving it an ‘A’ for Awesome. Read the rest of this entry »
So today I met with the North Phoenix Action Group. Horse Help which is a non profit organization in Phoenix that uses horses as therapy for disabled people and troubled teens has opened up their facility to have Arizona Home Grown Solutions partner with them in turning a lot of their open and unused space into therapeutic gardening areas. This was the main highlight of the meeting and here are the meeting notes.
Seedballs 101
So today I attended the, Seedballs 101 with Ruby Sheffer, at the Dolce Verde Solutions Hub. It was a very interesting class. For those who do not know, seedballs are made of clay, potting soil, and a variety of seed species that are all rolled up into little balls. The balls can vary from the size of peas, Coco Puffs, or Whoppers candy balls. They look so much like candy balls that I almost ate one.
So this was just another opportunity for Arizona Home Grown Solutions to pick some fruit from those who need it removed from their trees and donate it to those who need food to eat.
So this Sunday I went out to help with the Citrus Gleaning Service for Arizona Home Grown Solutions. Essentially what is done for the project is that they receive several volunteers and they go around picking the citrus from trees and then donating that to several food banks around town. This time they went to an area that had mostly elderly people who could no longer pick their trees and so they called the volunteers in to come help them with their problem. As usual I took some pictures while we worked on picking some fruit.