The official meetup for Garden Pool, a nonprofit organization. Join this meetup to: attend Public Garden Pool home tours throughout the Valley have fun at Food Drives and Potlucks learn at FREE Informative Classes volunteer with GP-Team Public Volunteer Projects to get a first hand experience and help others build and grow get to know others in the community who care about growing food! Garden Pool is dedicated to research and education of sustainable ways to grow food. Our mission as a non-pr …

We avoid the use of deleterious materials in our relationship with the Earth. We encourage the use of nature's resources as a guide for sustainable living. We help newcomers to become knowledgable and skilled in organic gardening, including composting and seed preservation. We also encourage our members to join the Tucson Organic Gardeners (TOG).  That club has been in existence for 41 years, long before there was a meetup.com, or even an internet.  TOG meetings are open to the public, and there …

This is a group to help get started with Ruth Stout's year round mulch method also called the Lasagna planting method. I can help provide the information to get free mulch delivered through local tree services including the delivery! We will learn together the best way to apply this method in the valley. It takes a lot of mulch and some time to begin depending on your soil quality. This method is also helpful for using less water and preventing damage from frost. In the end however we will have …