Chandler’s free landscape workshop: Easy Irrigation Troubleshooting & Repair

Fall is a great time to tune up your drip or sprinkler irrigation system before summer arrives.  If your system is giving you trouble and you don’t know why, this class will teach you how to troubleshoot and repair it like the pros. Learn how to identify the performance robbing problems in your system and what to do about them. Classes are …

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Mesa’s free landscape workshop: Watering for the Arizona Desert

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City of Mesa staff water conservationist and horticulturist, Donna DiFrancesco, will talk about simple steps to landscape watering and programming your irrigation timer. After attending this workshop, you just may save some money on your water bill too!

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Chandler’s free landscape workshop: Irrigation Maximization

Learn how to optimize your watering system to get its efficiency back. Class is free but you must register online at: https://www.chandleraz.gov/residents/water/water-conservation/education-and-resources/landscaping-and-irrigation-workshops

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Tempe’s free landscape workshop: Irrigation Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repair

As part of the Sustainable Landscape Workshops: Irrigation Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repair: Proper maintenance is key to managing an irrigation system that keeps your plants healthy while keeping water waste and utility bills low. Learn how to troubleshoot and prevent problems with basic irrigation systems, including drip, sprinkler, and bubbler systems. Instructor: Jeff Lee. Saturday, May 18, 2019 from 2-4:30pm at …

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Scottsdale’s free Green Building Lecture Series

Cutting Edge Residential & Commercial Green High-Performance Buildings What are the technological trends and building prototypes for the 21st century? Who are the early adopters and market leaders? Come see and hear about successful innovative residential and commercial projects that exemplify principles of resource conservation, energy independence and healthy living.

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Hydrate Mesa: Hydrate Your Yard

Hydrate Your Yard Contour your landscape to direct rainwater to your plants This session is all about WMG’s 3 “S”s: slow, spread, and sink. Learn how to use passive rainwater harvesting to create a series of berms, basins, and swales that will direct rainwater to beneficial use for plants while reducing flooding and erosion in your yard. These practices will slow …

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Hydrate Mesa: Hydrate Your Plants

Hydrate Your Plants Create a beautiful landscape with native plants and trees How can you create a beautiful, lush landscape while conserving water? We'll show you how to select native plants to build wildlife habitat, shade your home, and create an appealing landscape for your yard. If you're looking for the best trees and plants to attract hummingbirds and butterflies, bloom …

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Hydrate Mesa: Hydrate Your Food

Hydrate Your Food Use rain tanks to support your vegetable garden Rain tanks are like rain barrels, only upgraded: bigger, better, and your harvested rainwater lasts longer. While most rain barrels hold about 50 gallons of water, rain tanks can hold 1,000 gallons or more, capturing water from several storms and storing it for use over the course of many drier …

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Hydrate Mesa: Hydrate Your Soils

Hydrate Your Soils Turn waste into resources and build healthy soils Urban yards have the potential to produce well beyond their natural productivity without needing costly store products by integrating the use of typical waste streams such as greywater, stormwater, plant trimmings, and more. You’ll learn how to assess your yard’s soil type and simple ways to effectively use typical household …

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Surprise’s free landscape workshop: Drab to fab

We're kicking off the planting season with this landscape makeover workshop. You will learn how to get the most out of your landscape renovation with step-by-step guidelines, tips on hiring landscape professionals, and a special focus on rainwater harvesting retrofits.

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Queen Creek’s free landscape workshop: Pruning 101

Trees and shrubs are the most important living elements of your landscape.  Join an ISA certified arborist for this introductory presentation to learn the basics of pruning to keep your investments healthy, functional and looking great.  You will learn the art and science of good pruning, including how to prune young trees for good structure, the five types of pruning …