Education

Are you looking to find a way to use your stored water? Join our class and learn how to start a vegetable garden using your harvested rainwater! You can expect to learn how to choose the right spot and type of garden bed for your space. As well as different gravity or low pressure based irrigation systems to water your garden beds. Participants will also walk away with best practices of organic gardening, and using stored water for vegetable gardens. 

Learn how to prune native Sonoran Desert trees for healthy growth!

This will include walking around WMG's Living Lab to explore the principles with actual trees and observe both healthy structures and problem growth. Participants can expect to walk away with a good understanding of how to care for their own trees. Native trees are meant to be here lets help them thrive so they can cool Tucson, sequester carbon, infiltrate rainwater, build healthy soil, and clean the air!

Your washing machine can be a consistent source of greywater irrigation for high water use plants in your landscape like food producing trees and shrubs. Learn how to tap into this resource to help support your landscape and hydro-local living!

This VIRTUAL class meets the requirement for Tucson Water's greywater rebate and walks you through the process of applying for the greywater rebate with a focus on what it takes to install your own greywater Laundry to Landscape (L2L) system. You will learn:

Join us on Saturday, September 27th, from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM for an informative and hands-on workshop designed to get you rolling safely and confidently on your bike. Whether you're new to biking or bike occasionally, this two-hour session will cover essential safety tips, gear recommendations, and trip planning strategies to make bike riding a comfortable transportation choice for work, school, play, and errands. As part of our fall Sustainable Mobility series, this workshop will be led by WMG staff and docents who are avid cyclists familiar with commuting around Tucson by bike!