Project Roots News Today

Ahwatukee professor Dr. Neal Lester is leading a panel discussion on Black farmers, gardening, food and sustainability “through the lens of race, gender, and culture.”

The story of Project Roots begins with co-founders taking note of the lack of fresh produce to people of color in low income areas.

State lawmakers win $300,000 for trees and $100,000 for school gardens, bringing greenery to campuses that need it. But it may require ongoing action.

Roughly $300,000 in this year’s state budget went to a Trees for Kids program aimed at making public and charter school campuses more lush.Supporters held a news conference at the Arizona Capitol on Wednesday to say the money is now available to certain schools.Dionne Washington with Project Roots wants fruit-bearing trees native to the Sonoran Desert.

PHOENIX (KVOA) - Senate bill 1689 has passed which creates a budget to fund tree-planting in public schools.

As the deadline for hearing new bills approaches, environmental advocates fear most of their proposals will die at the Legislature without a hearing.

Arizona will soon release "justice reinvestment" funds from marijuana revenue. South Phoenix groups have ideas about how the money should be used.

Folks around the Valley are certainly feeling inflation, as costs everywhere continue rising.

Although a large portion of the state is a desert, Arizona has a deep agricultural history. In fact, more than a third of the state is still considered farmland. But the pandemic revealed vulnerabilities when it comes to supplying ourselves with food.

A Highbury-based artist is bringing nature into people’s homes through detailed wall-art of trees.