Field Notes from a Tucson Garden
Here I document life, cultivation, and experimental approaches to gardening in the Sonoran Desert. It follows what can be grown, made, learned, and restored from an average Tucson backyard.
This is where I keep practical notes about what I’m doing in the garden. It includes what I planted, changes I made, things I tested, and observations I want to remember.
The Journal is the blog part of Desert Soil. This is where I share stories, thoughts, photos, and things I’ve learned while working in the garden and paying closer attention to the desert.
For the past three years, I’ve been working to bring life back into the soil in my backyard. I started Desert Soil because I wanted a place to document what I’ve tried, share what I’ve observed, and show that the Sonoran Desert is much more welcoming to life than we often think.
These are photos from the garden, including the plants, animals, soil, water, and projects that are part of it. I want to keep a visual record of how everything changes over time.
This is where I share the projects I’m working on around my backyard, from building soil and growing plants to creating habitat and using water differently. I’ll document what I did, how it turned out, and what I would change next time.
Located in Tucson, Arizona
“The crazy thing is more rain falls on Tucson in an average year than the entire population consumes of municipal water in a year.” — Brad Lancaster
