Flowers & Bullets

06/04/2026

🚒 SAVE THE DATE! 💦
Our 5th Annual Wetdown is
Saturday, July 11, 2026
Midtown Farm
3538 E Ellington Pl
Tucson, AZ 85713

🩵🌊Fun for the whole family! Water jumping castles and other water activities with the 🧑🏽‍🚒 WETDOWN AT 10am! Food and snacks provided!

✨We are looking for sponsors! ✨
Your sponsorship provides a water jumping castle, food and other fun activities for the kids of the Barrio Centro, Julia Keen neighborhoods and wider Tucson Community.
As a sponsor we will put your logo on our flyer and on the recap video.  Please fill out the form in bio or QR code by June 30, 2026.

Our Annual Firefighter wetdown is a community event with a focus on strengthening cultural identity and building community. We aim to bring back a tradition of community engagement, like the past school events with firefighters. Thank you for your support and love for this community! 🫶🏽

06/02/2026

✨No Second Saturday in June!✨

Enjoy the rest! We will be taking time to build relationships within our organization.

🚒🧑🏽‍🚒Join us Saturday, July 11th for our 5th Annual Wetdown!
9-12pm! The firefighter wetdown is family friendly, where we have food and kids water activities! 🌊

See you then!

05/24/2026

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Gracias a todos los miembros del co-op que votaron por nosotros. Con su apoyo estamos construyendo una cocina en la granja que nos va ayudar a procesar nuestros alimentos, ofrecer más talleres y apoyar el crecimiento de negocios comunitarios. Este premio nos va permitir comprar equipo esencial para la cocina gracias al apoyo de: 🌽
La construcción de nuestra cocina va comenzar este verano y nos gustaría colaborar con ustedes. Si quieren aprender más sobre nuestra cocina o nuestros programas, no duden en contactarnos a: [email protected]

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Thank you to all the co-op members who voted for us. With your support we are building a kitchen at the farm that will help us process our foods, offer more workshops, and incubate businesses. This award will allow us to purchase essential kitchen equipment powered by: 🌽
Our kitchen build will start this summer and we would like to partner with you. If you would like to learn more about our kitchen or our program, please feel free to contact us at: [email protected]

05/22/2026

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¡¡La semana pasada nos tocó trabajar con Apollo Eagles!!!
Este grupo de estudiantes fue bien divertido de trabajar. Se sentía como tener a todos nuestros sobrinos y sobrinas en un taller.
🧀Haciendo queso:
Hicimos este taller en Apollo Middle School con las clases de 5to y 6to periodo. Tuvimos 4 estaciones donde los estudiantes tuvieron la oportunidad de aprender sobre las cabras y hacer queso de cabra.
🌽Visita a la granja:
Llevamos a los estudiantes a la granja para enseñarles el poder de organizarse en comunidad. Pudieron aprender sobre la granja, dar un tour rápido y después participar en algunos juegos de trabajar la tierra. Luego nos dividimos en 3 grupos: haciendo tortillas, jugar con cabritos y hacer bombas de semillas. Los estudiantes divertieron mucho, especialmente porque les tocó salir de la escuela por un rato.
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Muchísimas gracias a por unirse con Flowers & Bullets para hacer esto posible. Estamos emocionados de seguir ofreciendo más talleres y oportunidades comunitarias para las familias de Apollo y las comunidades del sur de Tucson.
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Last week we got to work with the Apollo Eagles!!!
This group of middle schoolers was so fun to work with. It was like having all our nephews and nieces over for a workshop.
Cheese making🧀:
We held this workshop at Apollo Middle School with 5 period and 6 period classes. We had 4 stations where students got the opportunity to learn about goats and make goat cheese.
Farm visit🌽:
We brought the students to the farm to show them the power of organizing. They got to learn about the farm, so a shirt tour then move into some games about working the land. We then broke into 3 groups. Tortilla making, interacting with goat babies, and making seed bombs. The students had a really good time, especially since they got to skip school.
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Special thanks to for teaming up with Flowers & Bullets to make this happen. We’re excited to offer more workshops and community engagement opportunities to Apollo families and south Tucson communities.

05/21/2026

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¿Qué tiene que ver el trabajo de intervención de violencia con la soberanía alimentaria?
Sembrar comida es la alternativa, la sanación y la conexión.
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Aprender sobre intervención de violencia nos ayuda a trabajar con nuestra comunidad con intención y al ritmo de la confianza, usando la granja como un espacio para aprender, reconectarnos y encontrar propósito.
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Estamos agradecidos con Scaling Safety por creer en nuestra organización y en nuestra comunidad, y por invertir en este trabajo.
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What does violence intervention work have to do with food sovereignty?
Growing food is the alternative, the healing, the connection.
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Learning violence intervention allows us to engage with our communities with purpose and at the speed of trust, all while utilizing the farm as a place to learn, to reconnect, and find to purpose.
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We’re grateful for Scaling Safety and their investment in our organization and community.

05/20/2026

🌟 Growing Good Together 🌟 We’re excited to announce the recipients of this year’s Cooperative Community Fund grants! This initiative supports local nonprofits doing incredible work in our community. Each organization will receive a $500 grant and be featured in our Round Up at the Register program!

🌱 Casa de los Niños supports vulnerable children and foster families across Southern Arizona through crisis services, education, and behavioral health programs. Grant funds will help stock their food pantry with nutritious and culturally familiar foods for foster families in need.

🌱 Community Gardens of Tucson creates spaces where families can grow food, build community, and access fresh produce. Funding will support their Garden to Pantry program with seeds, compost, irrigation supplies, and volunteer support to help fight food insecurity.

🌱 Flowers & Bullets advances environmental justice through Midtown Farm, providing education on sustainability, food systems, and traditional knowledge. Grant funds will help purchase equipment for their commissary kitchen and indigenous food education programs.

🌱 Youth On Their Own supports local students experiencing homelessness with food, school supplies, and essential resources so they can stay focused on graduation and brighter futures. Funding will help keep their Mini Mall pantry stocked with food and essentials.

Thank you to all the nonprofits who applied: we were inspired by your work. Thank you to our Co-op owners for helping select this year’s recipients!

05/01/2026

Fiesta in the park tomorrow, May 2nd.
Come check out the grand opening of the storm water park in the neighborhood.
Free food, resources, community, music and more.
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When: Saturday May 2nd
Where: Parkview Park 1521 s. Chrysler ave.
Time: 10am-12pm
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Flowers & Bullets collaborated with and the Julia Keen Association to reimagine our neighborhood park. A park that needed much improvement and so much investment. Come check out all the work that went into the park.
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Flowers & Bullets is so grateful to be working along side so many leaders to let the love that we put into the farm spill out past our property lines and into the road ways, the parks, alleys, and to our neighbors.

04/21/2026

Meal train for the Garcia family. Let’s show them what community looks like.

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It has been a week since our lives have shifted completely. The passing of our precious Anna has impacted us all. The amount of support has been overwhelming. Our dear friends have expressed they do not have the right words to explain the amount of gratitude and love they have felt from the communit...