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Conservation Center Garden Updates: June 2017

Conservation Center Garden Updates: June 2017

| Michelle Langmaid
Article by Michelle Langmaid, Americorps VISTA Garden and Volunteer Coordinator, published June 21, 2017. There has been a lot of summer gardening activities at the Native Seeds/SEARCH Conservation Center. While the high temperatures, ground squirrels, and other pests have been a challenge, crop...
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Varieties for Heritage Gardens

Varieties for Heritage Gardens

| Melissa Kruse-Peeples
The preservation of the footprints is rare, but the presence of ancient irrigation canals and fields is not. The Santa Cruz River Basin in the Tucson area has a 4,000 year old agricultural history. This legacy has resulted in a dense archaeological presence of agricultural fields. People have bee...
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Conservation Farm Updates: May 2017

Conservation Farm Updates: May 2017

| Melissa Kruse-Peeples
By  Melissa Kruse-Peeples, Education Coordinator. Published May 31, 2017. Activities are in full swing at the Conservation Farm this May. Cool season crops like peas, favas, and garlic are maturing in the field. Summer crops of corn, beans, and sunflowers have been planted in the fields. Chiles a...
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Celebration of Cotton

Celebration of Cotton

| Michelle Langmaid
Whenever I am showing a new volunteer through the seed bank I can’t help myself from excitedly grabbing the container which houses the cotton seeds and saying something obvious like “Look! We have cotton seeds!” just as a small child might point out a brightly colored candy. This could be because...
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Squash Pollination

Squash Pollination

| Melissa Kruse-Peeples
By Melissa Kruse-Peeples, NS/S Education Coordinator. Originally published July 25, 2014. Updated May 16, 2017. One of the most common gardening problems from those growing squash, cucumbers, or watermelons is the abundance of baby fruits, but none that grow to full size. The baby fruits shrivel ...
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Ground Squirrels! Conservation Center Garden Update

Ground Squirrels! Conservation Center Garden Update

| Michelle Langmaid
Article by Michelle Langmaid, Americorps VISTA Garden and Volunteer Coordinator, published April 24, 2017. Must be they’re hungry… We were all excited that the Mayo Garbanzo Beans had popped up and were leafing out beautifully. They were bright green, hydrated, and seemed generally healthy. Then ...
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Tips for Container Gardening

Tips for Container Gardening

| Laura Neff
When most people think of gardening, they think of large in ground plots or raised beds. From my experience, this picture tends to intimidate many people. Particularly those who are on a limited income, have limited space and time, live in a space where HOAs or landlords do not allow any renovat...
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Beauty Queen Squash

Beauty Queen Squash

| Sheryl Joy
We had a terrific growout of squash at the Conservation Farm last summer. Six different squash varieties were grown and had good harvests, but we wound up with a stunner of a harvest on one in particular!
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How to Clean Gourds

How to Clean Gourds

| Laura Neff
Gourds are cleaned depending on what the use is to be – artistic crafts, food/water, birdhouse, rattle, etc. If it's intended for food/drinking the cleaning of the gourd must be precise to ensure that any mold or fungus is removed and disinfected. Gourds come in a diversity of sizes and shapes. ...
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Recipe: Spicy Pumpkin Cake

Recipe: Spicy Pumpkin Cake

| Melissa Kruse-Peeples
Wowza! We have been enjoying some spicy pumpkin cake made by our amazing volunteer Esther. She used squash from Rancho Marques variety and added some Habenero powder for some extra kick. Yummy!
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