Earthen Oven & Rain Garden Terrace Workshop

It is mid-November, and yet it is still warm and sunny in the Dunbar/Spring barrio just a mile from the…

Streaming live from the Barrows Lecture Series at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden Wednesday, March 11, 2020, 7:00-9:00 PM…

Members of the Tohono O’odham Nation reaffirmed the modern relevancy of a sacred site in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument impacted by border wall construction.

A group of Tohono O’odham, Hia C-ed O’odham, Pascua Yaqui and their non-Indigenous allies gathered, Sunday, March 8, beside the pond fed by Quitobaquito Springs to discuss how building the border wall and pumping local groundwater to make cement is harming the area cherished by the local Indigenous peoples.

Marlene Vazquez is a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation. She said she regularly visits Quitobaquito Springs, but she’s seen the landscape change to the recent changes.

This last year, we have palpably felt a heightened level of traumatic stress pervasive in the Indigenous communities where all three of us have worked on both sides of the international boundary. Throughout our adult lives, we have provided educational opportunities, technical assistance, and land rights advocacy strategies within the many Indigenous communities that live within 100 miles or so from the U.S.-Mexico border.

Land degradation is impacting farmlands worldwide, affecting almost 40% of the world’s population. Reversing that process and restoring these croplands…

As COVID-19 raised its ugly head in the rural areas of Southwest borderlands this winter, I recalled the conditions among…

The question, of course, is what on earth is going to bring about the transformation that is needed; what is…

Agricultural Ecologist, Ethnobotanist, Ecumenical Franciscan Brother, and author Gary Nabhan joined Peter and Walt to talk about the border wall,…

UNESCO’s first City of Gastronomy in the U.S. relies on its built-in biodiversity and a wide network of food justice…

In recent weeks, the collective sigh of relief from growers in California has been palpable. While the West continues to…

For decades, we have been told that agriculture in the U.S. Southwest evolved from a blending of pre-Spanish-contact Indigenous crops…

On a breezy winter day along the Sonoran coast of the Sea of Cortés in Mexico, six of us went…

Adam Schiff: Today we will hear from two fruit trees who happened to be in the Ukraine at the time…

Climate change is aggravating agricultural crop failures, and the paucity of wild food harvests for Indigenous desert dwellers in Mexico…

Were you among the many citizens of southern Arizona who were caught off guard upon hearing that a designation for…