
We have under-invested in field conservation of the very plant diversity that keeps us alive and healthy.
Last week, Nature magazine finally gave global attention to the wild crop relatives and heirloom food varieties tha...

Mark Winne was uninvited to the Arizona Food Summit by the ADA. They must reinvite and apologize to him!
After inviting the great New Mexican food activist Mark Winne to speak at an Arizona Department of Agriculture (ADA...

Four Vows for Food Justice: An Earth Day Prayer
Although the many beings lost or wounded in our foodshed, somehow seem nameless & numberless, we vow to remembe...

We Need Poets, Mystics, & Artists, to Truly Restore Our Common Home!
After spending two days with Mexican poet Homero Aridjis in the desert, I am more convinced than ever THAT WE NEED...

Howard Scott Gentry memory recognized the week of April 28th to May 7th
Let us now praise famous mezcaleros! It was 75 years ago that my mentor, the great plant explorer Howard Scott Gent...
Restoring Our Common Home

A Future in the Ancestral
Mesoamerican culinary traditions spanning millennia have influenced the gastronomic heritage of Baja Arizona. Tacos...

Agave Heritage Week: Greg Starr, Ana Valenzuela, David Yetman, Wendy Hodgson, and much more!
It would be hard to find a group of plants which offer such architectural grace and morphological symmetry as agave...

Did you know that mezcala and tequilas were bottled and savored in Tucson over a century ago?
Did you know that mezcala and tequilas were bottled and savored in Tucson over a century ago? Ironically, only a s...

Gary Nabhan: Solar idea is a viable, job-creating option to border wall
Because I have lived within 20 miles of the U.S./Mexico boundary much of my life, the complexity of the debate rega...

Put a little wildness back into your food and drink, and you will likely become healthier for it!
Put a little wildness back into your food and drink, and you will likely become healthier for it! Ethnobotanists an...
