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Workshops and Studio Open House Schedule
| You can register for workshops at Mudnjoy@aol.com Please list date, number of people attending with you and a Tucson contact phone number or email address. April and May workshops are FREE |
| All workshops and Artist's Open Studio at Holdread Environmental Art Studio unless otherwise noted. |
| What | Where | When | Terms |
| Tucson Organic Gardeners, “Organic Gardening in the Tucson Desert”, powerpoint presentation by Melody Peters followed by a panel discussion. Panel: Maribeth Slobdnik, an experienced Master Gardener coming to Arizona noting how different gardening is in the high desert; Nicci, a new member speaking about being a new gardener; and Joy Holdread talking about developing a city lot and what she's done to develop her garden, “Making a Desert Oasis from a inner city bulldozed miserable lot of goatheads, Bermuda, and caliche.” | Virtual or in person TucsonOrganicGardeners.org |
Sept 20, 2022, 6:00pm | Free |
| Joy is staffing the Desert Composting section of the Tucson Organic Gardeners Plant Fair - Free, Open to the public | 3809 E. 2nd St. 1 block W. of Alvernon, 2 blocks S. of Speedway | Oct 15, 2022, 9am - 1pm | Free |
| Sustainable Tucson Meeting: Low Water, Low Labor, Hot, Wet Composting in the Desert. Holdread describes how to compost easily in the desert with a few modifications to traditional methods and commercial bins to accommodate the desert's dryness as well as conserve water. Turn your yard, kitchen and office waste into great growing soil without using extra potable water. | Virtual SustainableTucson.org | Nov. 8, 2022, 6:00pm | Free |
| Artist’s Open Studio Tour. | HoldRead Environmental Art Studio | I am not participating in open studio tours this fall. If you would like to buy email me at MudnJoy@aol.com or call me at 520-881-8283 (Landline, NO texting) | |
| Compost Bin Tour | HoldRead Environmental Art Studio | To be scheduled | FREE |
| Water Harvesting Garden Tour Come enjoy an Organic Garden with extreme water harvesting tour and chickens! Check out the waist high vegetable gardens, solar panels and eight styles of Rehabbed Compost bins modified for low water desert conditions. Walk around a yard scape designed to capture rain water. Make notes of reclaimed materials for growing containers, display, walkways, and helpful yard and garden ideas general yard tips. Lots of creative, resourceful, practical, Green, and humorous solutions to planting containers to inspire you. |
HoldRead Environmental Art Studio | To be scheduled | FREE |
| DESERT COMPOSTING: Low Water, Low Labor Composting Workshop You can compost easily in the desert with a few modifications to traditional methods. Make good use of your yard, kitchen and office waste without using extra water. |
HoldRead Environmental Art Studio | To be scheduled | FREE – Space limited – Preregister: mudnjoy@aol.com |
| TOUR: Solar, Water Harvesting, Gardens, Landscaping Composting and a Micro Chicken Flock. Look over Joy's creative, fun, innovative, resourceful, inexpensive Passive/Aggressive approaches to sustainability in the desert. Solar Panels, and rain barrel installations along with passive designs give you ideas you can use to suit your needs. Potluck Follows, please bring your own dinner ware. |
HoldRead Environmental Art Studio | To be scheduled | FREE – Space limited – Preregister: mudnjoy@aol.com |
| Clay Recycling and Clay Modification for clay artists, teachers and hobbyists. Make your clay the exact softness/hardness you need. Modify for sculpture or paper clay needs. NO LUMPS, no heavy work. Tried and true. | HoldRead Environmental Art Studio | To be scheduled | FREE – Space limited – Preregister: mudnjoy@aol.com |