Help Build Self-Sufficient, Food Secure Communities

Ayuda a construir comunidades autónomas y seguras en cuanto a la alimentación

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Permascaping / Homegrown Foods 501(c)(3)

Permascaping is an earned-income charity (like Goodwill) on a mission to build self-sufficient communities: villages that are food-secure, water-secure, and waste-free.



Learn how to harvest mesquite beans. Which trees? &nbsp;How to process them into flour and drinks. Each event supports our mission to increase community-owned food security. You&rsquo;ll leave with practical foraging skills, simple recipes, and a deeper connection to the plants in your own neighborhood.

Mesquite Bean Harvesting Walk

Kelly returns for the third year in a row with her mesquite milling machine demo, wild food tastings, and a plant walk through the park, including harvesting mesquite beans. Sponsored by the City of Chandler.&nbsp;<div fr-original-style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit;"> </div>You will need to register with the Chandler Parks. When their link becomes live, we will email you.

Mesquite Harvesting Walk and Mesquite Milling

Join us in transforming one lucky family&rsquo;s backyard into a desert food forest!<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1777405833/wysiwyg/psdudhtaiktql0e6zcz7.jpg" style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1777405275/wysiwyg/xorbfyayq1mgqmw3g23d.jpg" style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">&nbsp; You&rsquo;ll have the opportunity to learn:&nbsp;<ul data-rte-list="default" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;">How to install irrigation from scratch</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Why we chose the trees &amp; plants we did, and their locations</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;">How to build various types of trellises</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;">How to passively harvest thousands of gallons of rainwater&nbsp;</li></ul>Volunteers who registered by Friday May 15 1pm will receive:&nbsp;11am &mdash; breakfast burritos with a few options like:&mdash; eggs, potatoes, cheese&mdash; bacon or sausage option&mdash; veggie option with peppers/onions/potatoes&mdash; salsa + hot sauce on the side There will also be an open yogurt/granola/fruit bar with things like:&mdash; Greek yogurt + coconut yogurt&mdash; granola&mdash; berries/strawberries/blueberries&mdash; bananas&mdash; honey&mdash; nuts/coconut/chia seeds possibly Drinks will include lemon water, jamaica (hibiscus tea), and mineral/herbal energy tea! Site plans &amp; renderings:&nbsp;<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1777405170/wysiwyg/up0rlimigvedkpe2recs.jpg" style="width: 1087px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 1087px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1777405208/wysiwyg/hhhsbfsqlohz39sbxnf9.jpg" style="width: 1087px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 1087px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">

Moore Family Backyard Permablitz!

Come over to Kelly&#39;s kitchen in Ahwatukee.Learn about what is in season, and help process it.Mesquite flour, Palo Verde, tea, seasonings, Ironwood beans, Prickly Pear,Saguaro fruits, and more. Learn from Kelly, who has focused on foraging for wild and urban plants in Phoenix for ten years. Taste the desert and meet like-minded people. Put your ecosystem awareness into action! A short edible plant walk is included.<div fr-original-style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit;"> </div>No pets please.Be sure to cancel your reservation if you find you are unable to attend to open a spot for those on the waitlist. Prickly pear tea, mesquite beans, saltbush green salt, barrel cactus seeds, and more will be available to purchase at the end of the class. Each event supports our mission to increase community-owned food security. You&rsquo;ll leave with practical foraging skills, simple recipes, and a deeper connection to the plants in your own neighborhood.

Free Foraging Fridays with Cactus Kelly

Learn how to harvest &quot;Desert Edamame&quot; with Cactus Kelly. Taste the beans, identify the trees, and learn tips for easier harvesting.&nbsp; Each event supports our mission to increase community-owned food security. You&rsquo;ll leave with practical foraging skills, simple recipes, and a deeper connection to the plants in your own neighborhood.

Palo Verde Bean Harvesting Walk

Join us for a hands-on foraging and cooking experience! We&#39;ll meet up, drive a short distance to the trees, and spend about 30 minutes harvesting palo verde &amp; mesquite blossoms &mdash; a surprisingly tasty wild edible that can be used like capers, steamed like peas, or pickled and preserved. After the harvest, we&#39;ll head back to cook what we picked together. Come ready for the heat and leave with new skills (and maybe a snack). Donation-based event, thank you!

Mesquite Blossom Harvest & Cook with Cactus Kelly

Join us for a hands-on foraging and cooking experience! We&#39;ll meet up, drive a short distance to the trees, and spend about 30 minutes harvesting palo verde buds &mdash; a surprisingly tasty wild edible that can be used like capers, steamed like peas, or pickled and preserved. After the harvest, we&#39;ll head back to cook what we picked together. Come ready for the heat and leave with new skills (and maybe a snack). By donation &mdash; $1 or more, your choice.

Palo Verde Bud Harvest & Cook with Cactus Kelly

There are <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/PhoenixBackyardGardening/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: initial; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">over 100,000 active gardeners</a> in the Phoenix Valley. If just 1% of us (1,000 people) donate just $5 per month, we can transform 1 person&rsquo;s backyard into a small food forest each month. We can plant nearly 100 fruit trees in community spaces. We can create food-secure, water-wise, self-sufficient communities all across the Valley. Every dollar counts!&nbsp; This community-financed &ldquo;lottery rotation&rdquo; vision is inspired by the &ldquo;<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtaT0mavn3g&ab_channel=GravitasDocumentaries" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: initial; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Living on One Dollar</a>&rdquo; documentary in which four young friends set out to live on just $1 a day for two months in rural Guatemala. What they discover is a village system of financial support that helps each family afford otherwise inaccessible purchases like a driveway repair, laundry machine replacement, etc. Everyone pitches in, everyone receives, and over the course of time, the village upgrades. It&rsquo;s a beautiful &amp; effective system that we want to replicate here in the Phoenix area, specifically for growing as much food, building as much soil, and capturing as much rainwater as possible.&nbsp; We are planting fruit trees throughout the Phoenix Valley, on both public and private land in partnerships with cities, homeowners, and associations. This growing network of food-bearing, shade-producing, soil-enriching trees &amp; plants will be maintained &amp; harvested by us and our volunteers/paid workforce, and surplus harvests within our Food Rescue distribution network will go towards feeding local communities most in need for generations to come. By funding our Neighborhood Food Forest Network, you are helping build local community food security and resiliency, and providing a strong foundation for education, innovation, and opportunity of all kinds.&nbsp;

There are over 100,000 active gardeners in the Phoenix Valley. If just 1% of us (1,000 people) donate just $5 per month, we can transform 1 person’s backyard into a small food forest each month. We can plant nearly 100 fruit trees in community spaces. We can create food-secure, water-wise, self-sufficient communities all across the Valley. Every dollar counts! This community-financed “lottery rotation” vision is inspired by the “Living on One Dollar” documentary in which four young friends set out to live on just $1 a day for two months in rural Guatemala. What they discover is a village system of financial support that helps each family afford otherwise inaccessible purchases like a driveway repair, laundry machine replacement, etc. Everyone pitches in, everyone receives, and over the course of time, the village upgrades. It’s a beautiful & effective system that we want to replicate here in the Phoenix area, specifically for growing as much food, building as much soil, and capturing as much rainwater as possible. We are planting fruit trees throughout the Phoenix Valley, on both public and private land in partnerships with cities, homeowners, and associations. This growing network of food-bearing, shade-producing, soil-enriching trees & plants will be maintained & harvested by us and our volunteers/paid workforce, and surplus harvests within our Food Rescue distribution network will go towards feeding local communities most in need for generations to come.By funding our Neighborhood Food Forest Network, you are helping build local community food security and resiliency, and providing a strong foundation for education, innovation, and opportunity of all kinds.

Estamos plantando &aacute;rboles frutales en todo el Valle del Sol, tanto en terrenos p&uacute;blicos como privados, en colaboraci&oacute;n con ciudades, propietarios de viviendas y asociaciones. Esta red creciente de &aacute;rboles y plantas que dan fruto, proporcionan sombra y enriquecen el suelo ser&aacute; mantenida y cosechada por nosotros, nuestros voluntarios y nuestro equipo remunerado. Las cosechas excedentes, dentro de nuestra red de distribuci&oacute;n de Rescate de Alimentos, se destinar&aacute;n a alimentar a las comunidades locales con mayor necesidad, ahora y en las generaciones futuras. Al apoyar nuestra Red de Bosques Alimentarios Vecinales, est&aacute;s contribuyendo a fortalecer la seguridad y resiliencia alimentaria local, y sentando las bases para la educaci&oacute;n, la innovaci&oacute;n y m&uacute;ltiples oportunidades en tu comunidad.

Estamos plantando árboles frutales en todo el Valle del Sol, tanto en terrenos públicos como privados, en colaboración con ciudades, propietarios de viviendas y asociaciones. Esta red creciente de árboles y plantas que dan fruto, proporcionan sombra y enriquecen el suelo será mantenida y cosechada por nosotros, nuestros voluntarios y nuestro equipo remunerado. Las cosechas excedentes, dentro de nuestra red de distribución de Rescate de Alimentos, se destinarán a alimentar a las comunidades locales con mayor necesidad, ahora y en las generaciones futuras.Al apoyar nuestra Red de Bosques Alimentarios Vecinales, estás contribuyendo a fortalecer la seguridad y resiliencia alimentaria local, y sentando las bases para la educación, la innovación y múltiples oportunidades en tu comunidad.

Your monthly donation automatically enrolls you into our monthly 50/50 rolling raffle inspired by our partner the AZ Diamondbacks and their 50/50 Raffle program. Once we reach our first $1k in funding, here&rsquo;s how it will work:&nbsp;<ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><li fr-original-style="width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">Your donation is added into the monthly raffle pot&nbsp;</li><li fr-original-style="width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">1 random donor is selected &amp; awarded 50% of the total pot ($2,500) in the form of property transformation services</li><li fr-original-style="width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">The remaining 50% is used in our Phoenix Food Forest Initiative locations</li><li fr-original-style="width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">You receive a tax receipt at the end of each year for your donations</li><li fr-original-style="width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">To spice things up, you can start or join a team of donors to increase your chances of winning as a group, and deciding how you will distribute the funds within your group</li></ul>About the Phoenix Food Forest Initiative:&nbsp;<p fr-original-style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);line-height:1.929;font-size:19px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);line-height:1.929;font-size:19px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;">The <a fr-original-style="text-decoration-color:initial;user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit;" href="https://permascaping.com/content/partnering-with-the-phoenix-food-forest-initiative" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color:initial;user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit;" target="_blank">Phoenix Food Forest Initiative</a>, led by Christopher Macy, aims to transform underutilized urban spaces into thriving, sustainable food forests. This project began in March 2020 on his property as a proof of concept, inspired by Ron Finley in Los Angeles, and developed while working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project now includes seven parkways with 160+ fruit trees for the neighborhood.&nbsp; About Homegrown Foods:&nbsp;<p fr-original-style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);line-height:1.929;font-size:19px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);line-height:1.929;font-size:19px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"><a fr-original-style="text-decoration-color:initial;user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit;" href="https://eathomegrown.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color:initial;user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit;" target="_blank">Homegrown Foods</a> is a registered 501(c)(3) charity on a mission to build food-secure, water-wise, waste-free, self-sufficient communities. We began in 2023 as a citrus rescue, and have since expanded to include many other types of food &amp; food-growing products, as well as permaculture landscaping design &amp; installation, and even land for sale.&nbsp; About this 50/50 Rolling Raffle program:There are <a fr-original-style="text-decoration-color:initial;user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit;" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/PhoenixBackyardGardening/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color:initial;user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit;" target="_blank">well over 100,000 active gardeners</a> in the Phoenix Valley with all levels of experience and a wide range of objectives for our gardens &amp; properties. If just 1% of us (1,000 people) donate a small amount of money each month to our programs, we will dramatically increase the rate at which the Phoenix Metro Area reaches a critical mass of food security and shade canopy. With your support, we can create food-secure, water-wise, self-sufficient communities all across the Valley. Every dollar counts!&nbsp; This community financing idea is partially inspired by the documentary <a fr-original-style="text-decoration-color:initial;user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit;" href="https://youtu.be/vtaT0mavn3g?si=ilaqIocOPpqW_IH_&t=1981" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color:initial;user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit;" target="_blank">Living on One Dollar</a> in which four young American friends learn to live in a village in rural Guatemala. What they discover is a &ldquo;savings club&rdquo; system that helps each family afford otherwise inaccessible purchases like a new stove or small wedding ceremony. Everyone who pitches in will receive their turn, and over the course of time, the village upgrades. It&rsquo;s a beautiful &amp; effective system that we want to replicate here in the Phoenix area, specifically for growing food, building soil, and capturing rainwater &mdash; as much as possible.&nbsp; We are not only helping each other out as neighbors, we are also benefitting as an entire community. These private &amp; shared food forests will generate abundance of crops far beyond what any single family and neighborhood needs. By pooling our resources in this way, leveraging the power of numbers and compounding returns, we can become the country&rsquo;s first entirely food-secure, water-secure, waste-free, self-sufficient metropolitan area of urban villages.&nbsp; Join us and become part of a first-of-its-kind movement! Plus, it&rsquo;s tax deductible. 😋 &nbsp;And, if you need, you can cancel anytime&mdash;no questions asked. We get it.&nbsp; FAQs/Terms:<ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><li fr-original-style="width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">You do not need to own your property or even live in the Phoenix area to donate. However, we can only offer our 50/50 raffle prize to property owners in the Phoenix area.&nbsp;</li><li fr-original-style="width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">If you are unable to accept your raffle prize (or wish to transfer it), you may grant your winnings to anyone of your choice who meets the above criteria, or we can select another winner ourselves.</li></ul>

Your monthly donation automatically enrolls you into our monthly 50/50 rolling raffle inspired by our partner the AZ Diamondbacks and their 50/50 Raffle program. Once we reach our first $1k in funding, here’s how it will work: Your donation is added into the monthly raffle pot 1 random donor is selected & awarded 50% of the total pot ($2,500) in the form of property transformation servicesThe remaining 50% is used in our Phoenix Food Forest Initiative locationsYou receive a tax receipt at the end of each year for your donationsTo spice things up, you can start or join a team of donors to increase your chances of winning as a group, and deciding how you will distribute the funds within your groupAbout the Phoenix Food Forest Initiative: The Phoenix Food Forest Initiative, led by Christopher Macy, aims to transform underutilized urban spaces into thriving, sustainable food forests. This project began in March 2020 on his property as a proof of concept, inspired by Ron Finley in Los Angeles, and developed while working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project now includes seven parkways with 160+ fruit trees for the neighborhood. About Homegrown Foods: Homegrown Foods is a registered 501(c)(3) charity on a mission to build food-secure, water-wise, waste-free, self-sufficient communities. We began in 2023 as a citrus rescue, and have since expanded to include many other types of food & food-growing products, as well as permaculture landscaping design & installation, and even land for sale. About this 50/50 Rolling Raffle program:There are well over 100,000 active gardeners in the Phoenix Valley with all levels of experience and a wide range of objectives for our gardens & properties. If just 1% of us (1,000 people) donate a small amount of money each month to our programs, we will dramatically increase the rate at which the Phoenix Metro Area reaches a critical mass of food security and shade canopy. With your support, we can create food-secure, water-wise, self-sufficient communities all across the Valley. Every dollar counts! This community financing idea is partially inspired by the documentary Living on One Dollar in which four young American friends learn to live in a village in rural Guatemala. What they discover is a “savings club” system that helps each family afford otherwise inaccessible purchases like a new stove or small wedding ceremony. Everyone who pitches in will receive their turn, and over the course of time, the village upgrades. It’s a beautiful & effective system that we want to replicate here in the Phoenix area, specifically for growing food, building soil, and capturing rainwater — as much as possible. We are not only helping each other out as neighbors, we are also benefitting as an entire community. These private & shared food forests will generate abundance of crops far beyond what any single family and neighborhood needs. By pooling our resources in this way, leveraging the power of numbers and compounding returns, we can become the country’s first entirely food-secure, water-secure, waste-free, self-sufficient metropolitan area of urban villages. Join us and become part of a first-of-its-kind movement!Plus, it’s tax deductible. 😋 And, if you need, you can cancel anytime—no questions asked. We get it. FAQs/Terms:You do not need to own your property or even live in the Phoenix area to donate. However, we can only offer our 50/50 raffle prize to property owners in the Phoenix area. If you are unable to accept your raffle prize (or wish to transfer it), you may grant your winnings to anyone of your choice who meets the above criteria, or we can select another winner ourselves.

Phoenix Gardening “50/50 Rolling Raffle”

We&rsquo;re hosting a special Mother&rsquo;s Day landscape installation giveaway on May 9, where we&rsquo;ll be transforming a deserving family&rsquo;s outdoor space with sustainable, water-wise landscaping elements.We&rsquo;re currently inviting a few community-minded partners to support the project through material donations or discounted supplies. I immediately thought of The Home Depot / Lowe&#39;s / your company because of your strong presence in the community.Items that would make a major difference include things like:<ul fr-original-style="margin: 4px 0 4px 24px; padding: 0; list-style-position: outside;" style="margin: 4px 0px 4px 24px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: outside; box-sizing: inherit;"><li fr-original-style="margin: 2px 0; padding: 0; color: #1d1c1d;" style="margin: 2px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(29, 28, 29); box-sizing: inherit;">irrigation materials</li><li fr-original-style="margin: 2px 0; padding: 0; color: #1d1c1d;" style="margin: 2px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(29, 28, 29); box-sizing: inherit;">mulch / soil / compost</li><li fr-original-style="margin: 2px 0; padding: 0; color: #1d1c1d;" style="margin: 2px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(29, 28, 29); box-sizing: inherit;">pavers / edging</li><li fr-original-style="margin: 2px 0; padding: 0; color: #1d1c1d;" style="margin: 2px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(29, 28, 29); box-sizing: inherit;">plants / trees</li><li fr-original-style="margin: 2px 0; padding: 0; color: #1d1c1d;" style="margin: 2px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(29, 28, 29); box-sizing: inherit;">tools or gloves</li><li fr-original-style="margin: 2px 0; padding: 0; color: #1d1c1d;" style="margin: 2px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(29, 28, 29); box-sizing: inherit;">gravel / decorative stone</li><li fr-original-style="margin: 2px 0; padding: 0; color: #1d1c1d;" style="margin: 2px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(29, 28, 29); box-sizing: inherit;">gift cards toward materials</li></ul>In return, we&rsquo;d be happy to recognize your support through event signage, social media mentions, photos, and community appreciation.

We’re hosting a special Mother’s Day landscape installation giveaway on May 9, where we’ll be transforming a deserving family’s outdoor space with sustainable, water-wise landscaping elements.We’re currently inviting a few community-minded partners to support the project through material donations or discounted supplies. I immediately thought of The Home Depot / Lowe's / your company because of your strong presence in the community.Items that would make a major difference include things like:irrigation materialsmulch / soil / compostpavers / edgingplants / treestools or glovesgravel / decorative stonegift cards toward materialsIn return, we’d be happy to recognize your support through event signage, social media mentions, photos, and community appreciation.

Mother’s Day Giveaway Campaign

Join the Phoenix Food Forest for a two-day community Permablitz as we expand the neighborhood food forest with a major planting of citrus trees from Permascaping&rsquo;s wholesale citrus program. Together, we&rsquo;ll plant citrus and build resilient perennial shrub and ground-cover guilds designed to support pollinators, improve soil, conserve moisture, and create a productive living landscape. We&rsquo;ll also tackle earthworks and&mdash;if City approval is secured in time&mdash;curb cuts to help bring stormwater into the landscape. Volunteer registration is organized into morning and afternoon shifts on both days. Choose the day and shift that works best for you. Each shift initially has 20 volunteer spots; we may open more capacity after those spots fill. Exact meetup instructions, what to bring, and any City-approval updates will be emailed to registered volunteers before the event.

Permascaping / Homegrown Foods 501(c)(3)

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Phoenix Food Forest Community Permablitz: Citrus & Pollinator Guild Planting

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Phoenix Gardening “50/50 Rolling Raffle”

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