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 Desert Plant Workshops
Some might call them primitive skills—we call them timeless technologies which every citizen of the desert should know. Throughout the seasons we schedule outdoor hands-on workshops to share knowledge of the desert shared with us by Native elders. We guide you in sustainable harvesting of desert foods and traditional medicines, then through culinary alchemy, into the joy and good health they provide.
Martha Burgess of Flor de Mayo has been nominated to the Board of Native Seeds/SEARCH. She taught a Monsoon Gardening Workshop for NSS members at the recent San Juan's Day Celebration at the Conservation Farm in Patagonia. Look for upcoming events sponsored by Flor de Mayo teaching about traditional Native foods, gardening, and harvesting, in support of Native Seeds/SEARCH.
Other workshops include traditional basketry techniques using native plants.
Our events are sponsored by several different organizations. For details, please see below.
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Ongoing Native Foods Events:
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(SE corner Campbell Avenue and River Road, Tucson, 8-noon in warm weather, 9-1 in winter)
Look for the heirloom beans, Native baskets, and traditional Native wooden utensils at the Flor de Mayo booth, just inside the north gate. See you Sundays with a colorful array of desert heirlooms--genetic diversity before your eyes, and lots of good nutrition info, gardening info, great recipe ideas, and sharing info about.....the seed-saving organization Native Seeds/SEARCH! In Tucson, SE corner of River Rd and Campbell.
See www.farmersmarkettucson.com. |
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Watch for announcements of activities sponsored by Santa Cruz Valley Heritage Alliance.
Check out www.santacruzvalleyheritagealliance.org. |
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Watch for new gardening and ethnobotanical workshops thru Native Seeds/SEARCH at www.nativeseeds.org and thru Baja Arizona Sustainable Agriculture at www.bajaAZ.org. |
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Upcoming events:
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Join us for 4 days and nights of learning, relaxation, quiet and renewal in Nature. Learn about local medicinal plants, medicine making, native foods, and plant spirits. Gain a deeper sense of place in the Sonoran Desert. Contact Martha at 520.907.9471 or Pam at 520.743.3980. Click here for more information.
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8:30- 11 A.M.
Join us on an adventure as we harvest the suprisingly delicious and nuritionally rich buds of the misunderstood cholla cactus. Using traditional harvesting methods, participants will be taught how to carefully remove spines and cook cholla buds, while learning about their ecology, anatomy, ethnobotany, nutritional and medicinal qualities. This is the ultimate experience in eating local; you will leave with new recipe ideas to surprise friends and family. More info/register at: www.dbg.org/shop/courses/cholla-buds-treasure-of-the-desert-4-7-12.
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Martha Burgess teaches a desert harvest and cooking class entitled: Treating Diabetes and Elevated Cholesterol with Desert Untouchables—Cholla, Nopal and Others.
Other events at the conference include: pre-conference Intensive with Robert Rountree, MD: Natural Medicine for Immune Disorders and Chronic Inflammatory Disease. Conference topics: Chinese Herbs for Athletes; Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; Botanicals for Functional Heart Palpitations; Medicinal Plants of the Havasupai; Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome; Therapeutic Uses of Low-Dose Botanicals and much more. Herbal experts include: Paul Bergner, Mary Bove, Martha Burgess, Deborah Frances, Cascade Anderson Geller, Phyllis Hogan, Mimi Kamp, Jason Miller, Rhonda PallasDowney, Kenneth Proefrock, Robert Rountree, Jill Stansbury and David Winston. The program includes medicine making demonstrations, herb walks, and a panel discussion on the latest developments in clinical herbal medicine. CE credits for health professionals.
Information www.botanicalmedicine.org or 541.482.3016. |
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7:30 to 10:30am
Join Baja Arizona Sustainable Agriculture (BASA) and Flor de Mayo to learn how to harvest, process, preserve, and cook with cholla buds and nopalitos, both traditional foods of the Native Peoples of the Sonoran desert. Cholla buds are a superfood with high available calcium and complex carbohydrates that help balance blood sugar levels and provide sustained energy. Click here for more information. |
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6:00 to 9:00pm
Flor de Mayo will be contributing prints for the silent auction.
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