Living Lab

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:

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:

Develop water harvesting skills with this free virtual class from Watershed Management Group. Our instructors will teach you about passive rainwater harvesting, active rainwater harvesting, and how to qualify and apply for Tucson Water's Rainwater Harvesting Incentives Rebate Program. 

Learn how to save municipal water while supporting a productive oasis or even to drink rainwater. The course includes examples of successful water harvesting installations, and a Q&A portion where you can get advice from our educators.

Develop water harvesting skills with this free in-person class from Watershed Management Group. Our instructors will teach you about passive rainwater harvesting, active rainwater harvesting, and how to qualify and apply for Tucson Water's Rainwater Harvesting Incentives Rebate Program. 

Develop water harvesting skills with this free in-person class from Watershed Management Group. Our instructors will teach you about passive rainwater harvesting, active rainwater harvesting, and how to qualify and apply for Tucson Water's Rainwater Harvesting Incentives Rebate Program. 

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 IN PERSON class meets the requrement 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 Laundary to Landscape (L2L) system. You will learn:

WMG’s Living Lab and Learning Center is our premier demonstration site for various water harvesting strategies and sustainable living practices for arid landscape living. We have rainwater on tap and meet almost 100% of our water needs with rainwater, greywater, and stormwater.

Bring the kids to enjoy the Raindrop Retreat – a children’s playhouse featuring a rain tank, play kitchen with greywater, and sandbox. 

The tour takes place outside, so be prepared to be standing and/or walking for over an hour and in all weather.