Although the many beings lost or wounded in our foodshed, somehow seem nameless & numberless, we vow to remember their…
Did you know that mezcala and tequilas were bottled and savored in Tucson over a century ago? Ironically, only a small…
Because I have lived within 20 miles of the U.S./Mexico boundary much of my life, the complexity of the debate regarding President Trump’s border wall proposal is not lost on me. I have worked in communities on both sides of the Arizona-Sonora border, the border in the world with the greatest disparity for dwellers on its two sides.
Let us now praise famous mezcaleros! It was 75 years ago that my mentor, the great plant explorer Howard Scott…
Put a little wildness back into your food and drink, and you will likely become healthier for it! Ethnobotanists and…
“Welcome to the Agave family!” was the way that late Arizona botanist Howard Scott Gentry used to greet aficionados of…
Gary Nabhan, an internationally-celebrated nature writer, agrarian activist and ethnobiologist, was the Convocations speaker Thursday in the Gilbert Great Hall…
On December 11, 2016, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced designation of the City of Tucson…
This paper addresses how food systems and transboundary food supply chains are mediated and shaped by (cross-) cultural and geopolitical…
Conservationists hope to boost livelihoods along the poverty-stricken Arizona–Mexico borderlands by repairing habitat for more than 900 species of wild…