Scottsdale’s free landscape workshop: Learn how much and how often to water!
Take control of your landscape watering with step-by-step instructions. You’ll get hands-on practice setting the timer on an irrigation controller.
Free
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Scottsdale’s Green Building Lecture Series: Electric Vehicles & Renewable Energy Future
The road ahead is electric. Put your gas budget to better use, skip the morning traffic and help drive Arizona toward a more sustainable future by choosing an electric vehicle (EV). Save money. Save time. Less maintenance. Instant torque. Like a breath of fresh air.
Free
Mesa Library’s Great Outdoors: The Art of Attracting Monarchs and Other Butterflies to Your Garden
Laura Miller, a Southwest Monarch Study citizen scientist and board member, will discuss how to attract Monarchs and other butterfly species to your garden. The numbers of Monarch butterflies are declining due to destruction of their natural habitat and difficulties during migration. You can help by adding native plants to your landscape or by creating Monarch way stations. Donna DiFrancesco, City of Mesa Conservation …
Free
Mesa Arts Center’s Artmaking Workshop
Multidisciplinary visual and performance artist Katharine Simpson will lead participants in creating small pieces out of different textiles to contribute to the Water=Life installation. Participants are invited to drop-in and come and go during the session.
Free
Peoria’s free landscape workshop: History of the Sonoran Desert
The Sonoran Desert holds many wonders of an extreme environment and the life that lives in it. This program will introduce the flora and fauna of the Sonoran Desert. This program will explores the special adaptations of desert animals and plants. Registration begins August 1st!
Free
Scottsdale’s free landscape workshop: Select the right plant for the right place!
Choosing plants that are just right for your yard is the key to successful landscaping in the desert. Discover how from expert Kirti Mathura!
Free
Surprise’s free landscape workshop: Smart controllers
Did you recently install a smart controller for your irrigation system? Are you considering purchasing a smart controller in the near future? This class is intended to teach you best-practices for utilizing the features of your smart controller in order to gain the water-saving benefits you deserve.
free
Peoria’s free landscape workshop: The dirt on desert composting made easy
73Did you know that approximately 21% of all municipal waste is food? Composting is the ‘black gold’ essential to successful gardening. Compost improves soil texture and adds necessary nutrients. Discover how easy it is to produce your own magical soil amendment and save space in our landfills. Participants will receive a free food waste container for your kitchen. Registration begins …
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Mesa Arts Center’s SRPMIC Community Garden event
Learn about traditional and contemporary agriculture and gardening techniques and their impact on water use, experience and create ceramic art and a shell pendant, enjoy hoop dancing and Native American flute playing, and explore the importance of water within the SRPMIC history and community.
Free
Scottsdale’s free landscape workshop: Plant something and attract birds (and people)!
No one likes going hungry—especially not the birds visiting your yard! Learn how and why native plants are critical to wildlife… and how to select the right plant for the right place. Discover Audubon's new search-able database of nearly 3,000 native plants and trees and unlock the potential of your yard to be beautiful, low maintenance and bird friendly!
Free
Glendale’s free landscape workshop: Attract native wildlife to your garden
Everyone needs a home, including beneficial wildlife. If you build it (habitat), they (wildlife) will come! Give native wildlife a new lease on life and in your garden by creating a welcoming habitat. REGISTER FOR FREE AT: 623-930-3760 or greenliving@glendaleaz.com
Scottsdale’s free landscape workshop: Plant something and have color year-round
Why not be surrounded by color year-round? Landscape plants provide color through different seasons. Learn how to complement their function in your garden, and fill periodic color gaps, in fun and bright ways to keep your landscape vibrant throughout the year with Kirti Mathura.
Free