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Cohousing Creates Permaculture Urban Forest

Codicts Team
  • March 27, 2008
  • Social Justice
  • Sustainability

Manzanita Village Cohousing Community received a grant from the Arizona State Land Department to help expand its permaculture urban forest on its site in Prescott Arizona.

The community will be holding a workshop in April to install water catchment systems for their common house which will irrigate the urban forest.

The community’s 12.5 acre site has Alligator Juniper, Utah Juniper, Pinion Pine and Scrub Live Oak on its steep slopes and the water catchment system will benefit these and and other species to be interplanted.

Read the Cohousing Urban Forest Article in Read it Here.

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