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 Desert Plant Workshops
Click here to watch "Cuisine of the Desert: Foraging for Cholla Buds".
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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6:00 A.M.
We will be having a San Juan’s blessing of the garden grounds at the NSS Conservation Center, (River Road at Alvernon), facilitated by Martha Burgess, and followed by a Monsoon Gardening Workshop. Prepare to do some digging in the morning sun. Bring hat, water, sunscreen. We will plant a small plot of summer heirlooms which NSS needs grown out, and we’ll share ideas for the more appropriate plants for Tucson monsoon gardens, planting strategies, effective patterns, companion planting, mulching, and desert gardening traditions. Workshop is free to Native Seeds/SEARCH members, and $10 to guests/non-members. Please contact mmoynihan@nativeseeds.org to register.
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Around 5 P.M.
On San Juan’s Day proper, down at the Native Seeds/SEARCH farm in Patagonia for Native Seeds/SEARCH members and guests, we will have a little Blessing of the Land and Calling the Rain late afternoon Sunday, June 24, around 5pm, followed by a pot luck in the barn. Bring heirloom or locally grown dishes and prepare to get wet.
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