Surprise – Selecting Native Plants for Multiple Benefits
Learn how to create a beautiful landscape that attracts pollinators while conserving water!
FREE
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Surprise – Sizing and Installing Tanks
Get the essential information on sizing, placing, and planning for a low maintenance rainwater harvesting system that can support your vegetable and herb gardens,
FREE
Surprise – Supporting Healthy Landscapes
Learn the nuances of landscape maintenance that will help you ditch chemical fertilizers and high-water bills.
FREE
Surprise – Irrigating with Greywater
Discover how to use a laundry-to-landscape system to recycle this greywater for use in your yard to nourish plants and reduce your municipal water usage.
FREE
Chandler – Summer of Savings with SRP
Learn ways to reduce energy consumption and save water to spend less on monthly bills. Register here: chandleraz.gov/water
Avondale – Composting 101
Learn how to get started setting up, maintaining, and the do's and don'ts of a simple backyard composting pile. For your convenience, this class is only offered on Zoom. The link will be provided to once registered. Register Here: https://www.avondaleaz.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/16228/356
Chandler – Backyard Composting & Vermiculture
Learn how to use kitchen waste, yard scraps, and worms to transform your backyard into a healthy garden! Register here: chandleraz.gov/water
Queen Creek’s Veggie Gardening in the Desert
Join Master Gardener Cathy Rymer and discover the secrets to successfully plant, irrigate and grow vegetables in our desert environment! You will also learn to tell the good bugs from the bad and how to safely eliminate the ones we don't want in our gardens. This FREE Water-Smart Workshop will be held on Saturday, Sept. 9, from 9 to 11 a.m. in …
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Mesa’s Grass-to-Xeriscape: Saving More Than Water
Are people asking you “what’s up?” and you find yourself answering “my water bill”? Maybe it’s time to get rid of the grass or water-thirsty plants and replace them with a Xeriscape, which creates a beautiful, commonsense landscape that reduces water use, and provides cooling shade with a bonus of being much easier to maintain. Once the grass is removed …
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Avondale – Veggie Gardening 101
The down-and-dirty basics of gardening so you can have a successful fall crop! This class is in person only and will be held in the Sonoran Conference Room at City Hall from 11 am-1 pm. Register Here
Chandler – Desert Edible Gardens
Discover varieties of native crops and learn how to grow these desert edibles in your garden. Register here: chandleraz.gov/water
Avondale – Irrigation 101
Irrigation troubles? This is the class for you! Learn all there is to know about checking and maintaining your irrigation system in this comprehensive class where you will be sure to get the most from your irrigation system. This class is in person only and being held at the Public Works main offices on Lower Buckeye and 4th street in …