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Native Foods

Wild/native food gathering group. This group is especially focused on the mesquite bean harvesting, milling and pancake breakfast for 2008. However, other wild foods are also of interest

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Created By: Jennifer
Latest Activity: Jul 2

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Community garden at SCC 2 Replies

Hello. Anne Goldfeld and I are starting a community garden at Scottsdale Community College. We decided that we are going to grow native plant life here. Can anyone suggest anything that would be e...

Started by Andrew Pisher. Last reply by tanya Jul 2.

mesquite? 8 Replies

Has anyone seen any ripe mesquite beans yet? The Chileans around here are dropping, but others don't seem to be. Saw some this morning that were dropping beans that were a little green and not very...

Started by Anne Goldfeld. Last reply by Casey Christian Jun 29.

Mesquite Bean walk about 8 Replies

Hi All~ At the class this past weekend, I had mention that I would attach the file that contained the handout to this discussion list. Unfortunately, it appears that the file has been corrupted and...

Started by Heather Welch. Last reply by Jennifer Jun 29.

Website on Native SW foods 6 Replies

http://www.omick.net/native_foods/native_foods.htm

Started by Jennifer. Last reply by Lindy Ross Barnes Jun 28.

Blood Sugar and Prickly Pear 9 Replies

My sister is hypoglycemic, she found this out after she crashed this weekend at work. Her blood sugar level was 30 2 hours after a healthy lunch of salad, trout and milk. She works in the nursing f...

Started by Nichol. Last reply by Yumiko Jun 28.

Saguaro harvesting

So I had an idea... We should go out in small groups (1 or 2 people) to our own little off the beaten path places, collect fruits, and meet in a central location to do the preperations. This would ...

Started by Nick Jun 28.

Native Pancakes 2 Replies

I am wanting to help create a mesquite pancake breakfast. Any ideas? I am hoping to do a couple. One in the East Valley for sure and the other.......? The idea behind the breakfast is to alert our...

Started by suean stewart. Last reply by Heather Welch Jun 27.

Harvesting Saguaro Fruit!? 3 Replies

The O'odham "new year" according to Gary Nabhan is almost upon us. In his book he tells of a good luck rain ritual with the saguaro fruits. Anybody interested in going out to harvest some fruits fr...

Tagged: food, native, harvest, fruit, saguaro

Started by Nick. Last reply by Rachel Jun 24.

hammer time 2 Replies

do y'all have a mill, or use the desert harvester's mill, or just eat pods whole like cows? The husband claims a hand mill ill work on paloverde seeds, but they're pretty hard.

Started by tenacity. Last reply by Rachel Jun 24.

Front yard conversion to a native food garden, please help! 20 Replies

I am finally going to do it. The front yard is part bermuda (if I ever find the people responsible for bringing Bermuda to Phoenix, it will be a messy affair) and part gravel (on black plastic) wit...

Started by Rachel. Last reply by Rachel Jun 20.

Mesquite Bean Harvesting Walk-about on June 15th 2 Replies

Heather Welch has scheduled a Mesquite bean harvesting class on Sunday, June 15th. See full details here: http://www.phoenixpermaculture.org/events/ev at least one CLEAN 5-gal bucket (preferrably o...

Tagged: harvesting, bean, mesquite, walk-a-bout

Started by Jennifer. Last reply by Jennifer Jun 7.

Gary Nabhan's books 5 Replies

Gary Nabhan has written many extraordinary books on harvesting, preparing, and eating native (Sonoran Desert) foods as well as history and culture of these foods and of the people who have, in the ...

Started by Jennifer. Last reply by Jennifer Jun 4.

Slow Food & The Ark of Taste

If anyone is heading to Flagstaff around June 22 you may be interested in the following: "Heather M. Farley" wrote: Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 08:49:53 -0700 From: "Heather M. Farley" Subject: Local F...

Tagged: food, local

Started by Lindy Ross Barnes May 31.

Carob beans 15 Replies

Looks like we're going to get an opportunity to harvest carob beans either this week or next. Who's interested? I'm trying to get all the details now. The property is located around 48th St and McD...

Tagged: harvest, carob

Started by Jennifer. Last reply by TCarmichael May 9.

Locations, locations, locations

Carob bean gathering time is upon us. Soon mesquite bean time will be here (June) as well as cactus fruit season. We need the following: --locations where we can harvest any of the above --people ...

Tagged: cactus, harvesting, locations, carob, mesquite

Started by Jennifer May 1.

 
 

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