Composting is so cool. I mean, you can turn all of your vegetable scraps into rich soil! I don’t know about you, but just the idea really excites me… and that’s even before thinking of all of the added benefits.

Composting reduces plant material which go into landfills. As a docent at Tucson Botanical Gardens, [...]

What Is It?

Buffelgrass (pennisetum ciliare) is an invasive plant originally from Africa, which was imported into Arizona in the 1930s as livestock forage. It is speading rapidly has radically invaded about a third of the Sonoran Desert.

Why Is It Bad?

Listed as a noxious weed, buffelgrass crowds out and kills native [...]