Mango
Follow mango trees through years of growth, seasonal change, flowering, fruit production, and the realities of growing them in Phoenix.
Journey page coming soon →Growing in Phoenix
Follow real plant journeys from The Green Yard in Phoenix and explore years of growing tropical, subtropical, and traditional fruit trees in the desert.
Grow in Phoenix
What Happens When You Grow the Unexpected in the Desert?
Follow years of growing tropical, subtropical, and traditional fruit trees in my Phoenix food forest—from planting and extreme summers to winter cold, flowering, harvests, setbacks, and everything learned along the way.
Follow the Plant Journeys
See What Happens Over Time
These pages bring years of plant updates together in one place. Follow individual trees through planting, extreme heat, winter cold, flowering, fruiting, setbacks, recovery, and harvests as their stories continue to unfold in the Phoenix desert.
Jackfruit
One of the food forest’s boldest experiments, documented through planting, growth, summer heat, winter conditions, setbacks, and recovery.
Journey page coming soon →Longan
Follow a young subtropical tree as it becomes part of the food forest and faces the unusual conditions of the Phoenix desert.
Journey page coming soon →Lychee
Track how lychee responds to Phoenix seasons, establishment, growth, and the changing microclimates around the food forest.
Journey page coming soon →Grumichama
Years of patient growth leading toward flowering, fruiting, and the possibility of a first Brazilian cherry harvest.
Journey page coming soon →Black Sapote
Follow repeated flowering seasons, Phoenix winter conditions, tree development, and the ongoing wait for fruit.
Journey page coming soon →
Understanding the Desert
Growing Food in Phoenix Is Different
Phoenix creates a growing environment unlike most traditional fruit growing regions. These pages explore the conditions shaping the plants in The Green Yard and the patterns that continue to appear across years of growing here.
Phoenix Climate
Explore the seasonal conditions that shape food growing in the low desert.
Coming soon →Summer Heat
See how extreme summer conditions show up across years of growing fruit trees in Phoenix.
Coming soon →Winter Cold
Phoenix winters are mild, but cold nights still shape what succeeds, what struggles, and how plants recover.
Coming soon →Water
Explore how desert conditions and water availability influence an edible landscape over time.
Coming soon →Microclimates
See how different parts of the same property can create noticeably different conditions for plants.
Coming soon →Building a Food Forest
Follow the evolution of The Green Yard as a desert landscape becomes denser, more established, and more productive.
Coming soon →
The Green Yard
Years of Experiments, Documented in One Place
The Green Yard did not appear overnight. It has been built plant by plant and season by season, with successes, mistakes, surprises, losses, and changes along the way.
This section brings that history together so individual plants can be followed across years instead of being reduced to one planting video or a single seasonal update.
Learn With The Green Yard
Want to Go Deeper?
I’m developing classes built around years of growing tropical, subtropical, and traditional fruit trees in the Phoenix desert. These classes will go beyond individual updates and bring those lessons together into a more complete learning experience.
Phoenix Growing Classes
In-person and video-based learning options are being developed. More information will be added here as those programs take shape.
Classes Coming Soon