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2013 CLASSES AND TOURS "Into each life a little rain must fall.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Classes and Tours are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Registration is not necessary. Date Changes: Dates and times may change due to circumstances beyond our control. Please check this webpage for any updates, email us or call us. Get
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here) Classes and tours: Sierra Vista and Bisbee
Sierra Vista Classes and Tours This year, Water Wise is teaming up with The Cochise Water Project, Liberty Utilities, Lowes Home Improvement Store and ACE Hardware to bring you educational presentations. Longer presentations will be at the University of Arizona Sierra Vista (UASV), and "mini" presentations will be at Lowes and ACE Hardware stores in Sierra Vista.
FEBRUARY February"Mini Talks" 1/2 hour presentations at Lowes and ACE Hardware: "Instant hot Water on Demand". Tired of waiting for hot water and wasting money? Come see how you can have hot water when you want it and not waste a drop! Visit the stores for date and time. MARCH
Saturday, March 9 :"Timing Irrigation Systems", 1:00 to1:30 p.m. ACE Hardware, Naco Hwy, Bisbee, AZ. Come learn the basics about timing irrigation systems. A quick and easy primer! SEATING IS LIMITED FIrst-come, first-serve. Presenter: Cado Daily, Water Wise March 15 & 16, look for our information table at the Southern Arizona Contractors Association Home and Garden Show. Buena High School, Sierra Vista. WAM! April is Water Awareness Month! Saturday, April 13:“Water Expo” Come see what products and services are available to you for landscaping, irrigation, plumbing, hot water, rainwater collection and more! Activities for youth. NEW LOCATION: The Mall at Sierra Vista. Time: 9 a.m to 2 p.m. MAY
Movies in the Park: Look for our youth activity table at Veteran's Park in Sierra Vista when you bring the family to watch a movie under the stars!
JUNE
Movies in the Park: Look for our youth activity table at Veteran's Park in Sierra Vista when you bring the family to watch a movie under the stars!
June "Mini Talks" 1/2 hour presentations at Lowes and ACE Hardware: "Irrigation Systems","Timing Irrigation Systems", and "Rainwater Harvesting" with tank door prize. Visit the stores for dates and times.
JULY Saturday, July 13: 10th Annual Guided “Water Harvesting Tour." For a couple of hours each year you get a great opportunity to learn from your neighbors and businesses how they collect rainwater. From residential systems to commercial systems, no system is exactly alike! If you aren't a collector before the tour, you will be after seeing how easy it can be. Contact Water Wise for details. July "Mini Talk" 1/2 hour presentations at Lowes and ACE Hardware: "Rainwater Harvesting" with tank door prize.Visit the stores for date and time.
AUGUST July 31- August 3: Southwest Wings Birding Festival: Look for our "Water Wise Gardening for Wildlife" presentation. Cochise College, Sierra Vista Campus. August "Mini Talks" 1/2 hour presentations at Lowes and ACE Hardware: "Planting Trees and Shrubs" and "Rainwater Harvesting" with tank door prize.Visit the stores for dates and times.
SEPTEMBER
Saturday, September 21, 9-10:30 a.m. : "Harvest Rain!" This presentation will show you how to put together a catchment system from roof to irrigation. Keeping the water clean, gravity fed and pressurizing for irrigation will be some of the many topics covered. Location: University of Arizona Sierra Vista, 1140 N. Colombo Ave, Sierra Vista, AZ, Public Meeting Room. Saturday in September: Sierra Vista Chamber of Commerce Business Expo: Look for our Water Wise information table!
OCTOBER Well Owners Workshop: To be announced. Stay tuned! October"Mini Talks" 1/2 hour presentations at Lowes and ACE Hardware: "Instant hot Water on Demand" and "Fixing Leaks." Visit the stores for dates and times.
NOVEMBER Saturday, November 16, 9-11:30 a.m.: "Septic Care." If you have a septic system and have not attended this talk, it is a "must do"! Owning a septic system is responsibility to make sure it works properly to protect groundwater supplies keeping you and your family's well water safe. Come learn how simple preventative maintenance can keep your system in good working order for years to come. Presenter: Dr. Kitt Farrell-Poe, UA Water Quality Specialist. Location: Location: University of Arizona Sierra Vista, 1140 N. Colombo Ave, Sierra Vista, AZ, Public Meeting Room. November "Mini Talk" 1/2 hour presentations at Lowes and ACE Hardware: "Winterizing Your House". Visit the stores for date and time. Location: Ecoasis, 54 Brewery Ave., Old
Bisbee February 6: “Strawbale Gardening - Get
Ready for Spring Gardening” Garden without bending
down or battling rocks! Planting in straw bales is easy and successful.
Come learn how. Presenter: Cado Daily, UA Water Wise
Program.
SATURDAY, June 1:“Amazing
Agaves and Colorful Cacti” TIME: 1 to 3 p.m. These
tough, durable plants are right at home in the hot, dry climate of southeastern
Arizona. Come out and learn about the variety of succulent plants that
make spectacular landscape specimens. Greg Starr, Starr Nursery
from Tucson. Plants will be for sale after the talk.
SATURDAY, July 20:"Guided
Water Harvesting Tour." For a couple
of hours each year you get a great opportunity to learn from your neighbors
and businesses how they collect rainwater. From residential systems
to commercial systems, no system is exactly alike! If you aren't a collector
before the tour, you will be after seeing how easy it can be. Contact
Water Wise for details.
February 14 & 15, look for our information table at "High on the Desert" Cochise County Master Gardeners Association Conference. Windemere Hotel and Conference Center, Sierra Vista. Registration is required.
Cochise
Chapter of the Arizona Native Plant Society
For Cochise County Residents: Need help with your landscape? Don't know how to water or what that plant is in your yard? No fear, Water Wise is here! Water Wise specialists are available to visit your home or business and help you do what you want, but more water efficiently. A qualified water conservation educator will visit your home or business and give tips specific to you! Contact us! (Phone numbers listed below).
University of Arizona Cooperative Extension
Water Wise Office County Locations: 66 Brewery Gulch Cochise County Building
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Saturday, March 9 :"Timing Irrigation Systems", 9 to 9:30 a.m. ACE Hardware, Fry Blvd, Sierra Vista and 10:30 to11:00 a.m. Lowes Home Improvement, Martin Luther King Blvd, Sierra Vista. Come learn the basics about timing irrigation systems. A quick and easy primer! SEATING IS LIMITED at ACE HARDWARE. FIrst-come, first-serve. Presenter: Cado Daily, Water Wise
Saturday, May 4, 9 to 10:30 a.m:
"Play in the Rain! Watershed Health Begins at Home." .
"Come learn how to make your property a healthy watershed by
harvesting water on the land and from the roof. Presenter:
Watershed Management Group. Location:
Saturday, May 4:
May,"Mini
Talks" 1/2 hour presentations at Lowes and ACE Hardware: "Irrigation
Systems". Irrigation systems can
be terrific - if you know how to use them. Come learn tricks and tips
for having a good irrigation system that works for you. Visit the stores
for date and time.
Saturday,
June 1, 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.:“Amazing Agaves and Colorful Cacti”
Spring in the desert is a tough time for most plants because
of the heat and dry winds, but succulents love it! Come learn about
the wide variety of succulents you can plant in your yard and how to
care for them. Presenter: Gregg Starr, Starr Nursery,
Tucson. Plants will be for sale after the talk. Location:
Sunday,
September 8, 1 - 4 p.m.: 16th Annual Water Wise/Master Gardener Fall
Xeriscape Tour: This self-guided tour
in the Sierra Vista area is a great way to see lovely low-water landscapes.
From design to plants, visitors can get ideas for use in their own yards.
Docents from the Cochise County Master Gardener program will be at each
site to answer questions and point out features. Contact 
