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11th Annual Mesquite Milling, Pancake Brunch, & Fiesta – A Neighborhood Event

December 28, 2013 by Michael Wright

Nov 26, 13 Pedaling quietly down tree lined streets in the crisp autumn morning, we round the corner into Dunbar/Spring Community Park and meet the sounds of gasoline engines driving mills grinding mesquite pods. It is the 11th Annual Mesquite Milling, Pancake Brunch, & Fiesta at the Dunbar Spring Community Garden, Orchard and Mini Nature park in…READ MORE >

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Filed Under: Farming, Festival, Food, Gardens Tagged With: desert, desert agriculture, desert farming, farming, mesquite, Michael Wright, neighborhood, tucson, urban sustainability

Farm Festival at Las Milpitas de Cottonwood

December 6, 2013 by Kate Walter

When We Grow Our Food, Our Community Grows November in Tucson, Arizona, signals a change in season.  The intense summer sun has relaxed, and while we wait for the winter rains, people, plants and animals reach a place of contented wellbeing.  We find joy in the warm soft brightness of an autumn day in the desert.  …READ MORE >

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Filed Under: Education, Farming, Festival, History, Sustainability Tagged With: arizona, autumn, desert, desert agriculture, desert farming, education, garden, irrigation, Kate Walter, Michael Wright, planting, renewable, resources, seed library, seeds, sustainability, tucson, urban farming, urban sustainability, water

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by Michael Wright

Garden of Radio Delights

Roll back the tape: 1960, Cincinnati, Ohio, 3 am. My upstairs bedroom.  Headphones on, I’m squinting in the dark at the lighted dial of my Hallicrafter S-38e short wave radio, with a Q-multiplier attached that I built from a Heathkit. The S-38e was produced from 1957 to 1961, making it the end of the Hallicrafters S-38 line of shortwave…READ MORE >

Music in the Wood: Harmonic Forms by Paul Fairchild

I climbed down out of the Crow’s Nest and spent a recent Saturday afternoon worrying a pile of knotty red oak rounds with a maul and wedge, whittling them down to size for the wood stove. As I split them open, I enjoyed seeing the beautiful swirling grains in the wood, exposed to the sunlight…READ MORE >

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