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Emerge Festival, composting, new plumbing videos, and sustainability news!
Composting: Breaking It Down to the Basics
Read our November Sustainability Savings Tip [PDF] for easy steps to turn green waste into mulch.
 Our tip features:
- What defines browns & greens in your compost pile
- Tricks to speeding up the composting process
- How to get a $5 composter for your backyard
Emerge 2022: Eating at the Edges
Sat. Nov 19, 12-7 pm. Taking place at Mesa Arts Center, New City Plaza Park, and ASU's newly opened Media and Immersive eXperience (MIX) Center (Center & Main Street).
EMERGE is a free art, science, and technology festival that offers an imaginative look into our relationship with food and what that will look like in a future with severe environmental challenges. Think and taste your way through the exhibits asking what alternative forms of food production, distribution, and consumption we should consider to build a more inclusive, equitable, and delicious culinary world.
Featured experiences include food art installations, food researchers, food trucks/vendors, live music and entertainment, Mesa Arts Center’s MABEL (Mobile Arts Based Engagement Lab), a Bountiful Future Food Feast art installation made from ceramics, interactive art activities and more. Bring your hands, noses, and mouths — they are critical tools!
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Visit Mesa's booth, Altering the Food Cycle: Climate Impacts of Food. We'll be talking about how production, transportation, and handling of food generate significant carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Plus, when food waste ends up in landfills, it generates methane – an even more potent greenhouse gas. Our exhibit will share ways to reduce your food miles – the distance traveled from farm to plate. We’ll also help you gain ideas for managing food waste and disposal like composting.
We'll be featuring emerging sustainable, small-scale urban growers - even some who will pick up your food waste to turn it into fertile farmland so they can deliver fresh food back to you. Our artistic cornucopia-style display of locally harvested foods will convince you that great produce can be successfully grown in the desert.
Once at our booth, tap into our online PLEDGE about sustainable food systems, and we’ll reward you with a cool takeaway. Learn more. Image Credit: Eco-Suburbia Urban Farm
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With the holidays on their way it's time to get those household leaks fixed (well, it's always time). Dripping faucet? Leaky toilet? We can help! The City of Mesa had a blast partnering with the East Valley Institute of Technology (EVIT) to create a series of short Do-It-Yourself videos. Each one will help you identify and fix simple plumbing issues to save you water and money. Find all six videos!
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Volunteers Needed for Tree Planting at Mesa Cemetery The National Football League (NFL) awarded Mesa a $4000 Community Greening grant to replace a large number of trees lost in recent monsoon storms. Mesa is looking for volunteers to help plant 65 Italian Cypress trees at the historic Mesa Cemetery. The tree planting will be on Saturday, Nov. 19 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m...
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New Public Transit Comes to Mesa The Fiesta Buzz is a free neighborhood circulator provided by the City of Mesa, connecting the Fiesta District, Asian District, and Mesa Riverview. The circulator travels the route in a northbound/southbound direction every 30 minutes. Service will be available Monday through Friday from 5:30 a.m. to midnight...
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Landscape Watering Guidelines & Tips Find our November watering frequencies, fall planting ideas, and how to build a rain garden.
Plant of the Month - Damianita This is a great xeriscape plant to add to your landscape. It holds up to summer heat and winter cold, blooms from spring to fall, uses little water, and attracts butterflies and pollinators.
ECO Mesa In case you missed it, Eco Mesa broke ground last year in the heart of downtown. It is a sustainable, high-end development, including living and commercial space. Featuring rooftop solar, graywater capture and onsite use, carshare and bikeshare, individual energy use monitors and more. Construction is ongoing.
Help us Rebuild Our Wheelchair Accessible Bed!
Mesa Urban Garden's wheelchair accessible bed and the garden beds are in need of rebuilding!
They have signed up with SEEDMONEY.ORG to help raise the money to do this. Seed Money offers challenge grants from $400-$1,000 to the nonprofits that take in the most donations. They are hoping to win the $1,000 grant! WILL YOU HELP?? The Campaign runs from Nov 15 to Dec 15. Just click on the link to get to the donation page: https://donate.seedmoney.org/7309/mesa-urban-garden.
Thank you for helping MUG to keep the garden accessible to all. Mesa Urban Garden is located near downtown Mesa at 212 E 1st Ave. Learn more about MUG.
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Build Your Own Basin - BYOB
Build Your Own Basin to grow shade trees, help recharge groundwater, and beautify your neighborhood!
Basins are the containers that catch rainfall and support the growth of rain gardens—stunning ecosystems of plants and trees that help clean and recharge groundwater, provide habitat for native species, cool homes and sidewalks, and reduce flooding. Building your own basin is a quick and simple project that can be done at your home, school, place of worship, or other places around your neighborhood! Find helpful videos and instructions on the Watershed Management Group site.
Need trees for your basin?? Get two free shade trees by attending an SRP Shade Tree workshop. Classes for 2023 are now open - choose from Jan 12 & 28 or Feb 18. Learn more.
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Work off some calories with these fun ideas for getting out of the house over the Thanksgiving Holiday:
Desert Arroyo Park, 9320 E McKellips Rd. This beautiful 58-acre parcel of native desert uplands is located at the northeast corner of McKellips and Ellsworth Roads. The park takes full advantage of the site’s natural desert landscape with a passive park focusing on experiencing the native desert.
Park of the Canals, 1710 N Horne. This hidden gem of 31 acres got its name as it is the location of prehistoric (Hohokam period), historic, and modern canals. There is also a playground and a botanical garden and walk at the site.
Desert Trails Park, 2955 N Recker Rd. Includes a series of biking trails, a pump track, and a kids’ skills track. The trails consist of a ¾-mile perimeter trail for hiking and non-motorized bike use.
Downtown Mesa. Check out the Saturday Farmers Market, delicious restaurants, breweries/taprooms, museums, Merry Main Street (starting Nov. 25), and more.
Be sure to visit the i.d.e.a. Museum, the AZ Museum of Natural History, Mesa Grande Cultural Park, and the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum in downtown Mesa.
 Have you seen the Acrocanthosaurus dinosaur busting out of our museum walls?
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