Calendar
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2010 Calendar of Events
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March 7 – Organic Garden Festival by Tucson Organic Gardeners, Tucson
10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at community gardens at St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church, 3809 E. 2nd Street near Speedway and Alvernon. This free event includes plant and bake sales, food and beverage sales, music, games for children and relevant demonstrations. The Tucson Organic Gardeners are currently accepting applications from organic local food and beverage vendors, earth friendly vendors and volunteers. Please contact Lynne East-Itkin at (520) 889-9910 or events@tucsonorganicgardeners.org
March 13 – Winter Organic Garden Tour, Sierra Vista
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free tour of experienced market grower, Irwin Kilanski’s organic operation. Growing vegetables all year round in a backyard garden. Discuss greenhouse growing, seedling propagation, row distancing, bed preparation, composting and fertilization. Talk about cover crops, raised beds, covered beds, sun orientation, and frost control. See purebred Flemish Giant rabbits raised for meat and organic soil enrichment. Share information about selling surplus at local farmers markets. Produce for sale if available. BASA information booth with free organic seed catalogs and other handouts. Location: 5655 S. Rustler Lane in Hereford. Directions: Head south of Sierra Vista on Hwy 92. Turn left on Ramsey Rd and go 2.2 miles east to Rustler Lane. Corner of Rustler & Ramsey. Turn right on Rustler to gate on the left. For more information, call 520.378.2973 or email valerie.mccaffrey@bajaaz.org By Baja Arizona Sustainable Agriculture.
April 10 - Green Streets and Neighborhoods Festival and Fundraiser, Tucson
Tucson-based nonprofit Watershed Management Group and the Rincon Heights Neighborhood Association are hosting a block party and cookout from 3pm - 7 pm to celebrate and share their successful model program installing "green infrastructure" in the neighborhood. Green infrastructure is vegetated infrastructure that uses natural processes to provide services like flood and pollution reduction, traffic calming, wildlife habitat and neighborhood beautification. The event, which is also a fundraiser to assist Watershed Management Group's work to green neighborhoods, will feature neighborhood tours of green infrastructure practices, educational demonstrations, live music, and home-cooked barbecue in a block-party atmosphere. More details to be announced; for more information visit watershedmg.org or call 520-396-3266
April 17 – Earth Day Celebration at Sierra Vista Farmers Market
9 a.m. to 2 p.m. NW corner of Wilcox and Carmichael in Sierra Vista. Includes 50 non profit, farmers market and handmade craft vendors, live music all day with Cochise County Youth Orchestra and lots of old time fiddle music, Gray Hawk Nature Center (pet a non-venomous snake and learn how to live with rattlesnakes and other local creepy crawlers), solar cooking demonstration and BASA information booth (solar ovens, solar cookbooks for sale), rain water harvesting and sale of rain barrels, native landscaping plants, plant starts and seeds for the garden, local hiking, biking, recycling, gardening and star gazing opportunities with grass-fed steer burgers and BBQ, vegetarian food, baked goods and treats. Call Baja Arizona Sustainable Agriculture at 520.378.2973 for more information.
April 24 – Bisbee’s Earth Day Celebration & Opening of the Bisbee Farmers Market
Join us from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Vista Park, Bisbee for fresh spring produce, grass-fed meats, farm-fresh eggs, honey, pickles, jams, and plants galore for landscaping or starting a garden; information on solar ovens, solar cookbooks for sale; information on water harvesting and recycling; handmade arts and crafts and flea market items; live music all day by Market favorites, dancing and drumming; activities for kids; coffee and baked goods; Mexican food for breakfast and lunch. Don't miss the fun! For more information contact Laura Smith, market manager at laura.haba@gmail.com or go to www.bisbeefarmersmarket.org
June 12 – 8th annual Solar Cook-off & Expo, Bisbee
From 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Bisbee Farmers Market in Vista Park in the Warren section of Bisbee. Come show off your solar cooking skills. Find out what the sun can do for you. Solar vendors and solar powered demonstrators welcome. Solar cooking demonstrations. Prizes and potluck for solar chefs from noon to 1 p.m. Solar contractors will have information and sell solar systems and devices. Solar ovens and solar cookbooks for sale. Solar ovens are available at cost with BASA membership. By Baja Arizona Sustainable Agriculture. For more information contact Valerie at 520.378.2973 and valerie.mccaffrey@bajaaz.org
