- Slowing the Water: A Deep Dive into Check Dams for Desert WashesA few weeks into our first monsoon season at AeroZona, the desert gave us our first land-restoration project. Strong winds knocked down two dead palo verde trees on the property. We could have cut them up and hauled them away. Instead, we started looking at the washes running across the farm and asking a different… Read more: Slowing the Water: A Deep Dive into Check Dams for Desert Washes
- Sometimes the first farm project chooses you.Recent monsoon winds brought down two dead palo verde trees at AeroZona. Rather than treating the fallen trees as waste to haul away, we saw an opportunity to put that material to work—and to start preparing the land for the rain we hope is still to come. So our first real land project is underway:… Read more: Sometimes the first farm project chooses you.
- A New Chapter for AeroZona: Putting Down Roots in La Paz CountyAeroZona is growing. Although, perhaps not in quite the way we originally imagined. What began as a vision for an aeroponic tower farm in rural western Arizona has evolved into something broader: a place to explore what sustainable agriculture, food access, water conservation, education, and rural resilience can look like here in the desert. We… Read more: A New Chapter for AeroZona: Putting Down Roots in La Paz County