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Sonoran Desert Series:Berries, Seeds, Greens, Herbs & Flowers with Jill Lorenzini
Less well-known than the bean trees and cactus foods, berries, greens, herbs, and flowers add unique flavors, textures, and health benefits to your diet. Wolfberry, hackberry, and canyon hackberry offer sweet and bittersweet treats. Summer and winter greens and herbs (mustard, LQ, chickweed, malva, peppergrass, verdolagas, amaranth, aloysia, etc), and seasonal flowers (desert willow, chuparosa, palo verde, ironwood, ocotillo, etc) provide pungent and colorful additions to foods, and seeds (chia, amaranth, panic grass, plantago, etc) add crunchy protein and visual…
Find out more »Sonoran Desert Series: Resources for Regeneration with Jill Lorenzini
Recommended reading, books to look at, local and regional partner organizations, sharing, ideas, brainstorming, Desert Dreams DVD. Sample mesquite chocolate chili sauce with fruit.
Find out more »Sonoran Desert Series: How to Localize Your Foods with Jill Lorenzini
We have many choices when it comes to feeding ourselves--for now. Inventory these choices and understand the benefits, embodied energy, and consequences of your food choices. Native perennial wild foods, traditional native cultivated crops, heritage foods, locally grown crops, regional foods, local seeds and plant starts, local soil amendments, etc. Explore the richness of edges and adjacencies: Sky Islands, Sonora MX, Baja, CO River Plateau and other SD subdivisions, Mojave Desert, Chihuahuan Desert, Gulf of CA
Find out more »Sonoran Desert Series: Using Sonoran Desert Foods with Jill Lorenzini
Sonoran Desert foods, like the place they grow and thrive, are potent, pungent, and unique. Usually a little goes a long way. In this class we will review Uplands AZ native foods pallette, guidelines, seasonality, harvesting ethics, and best storage practices. Then we will prepare and sample a feast of desert foods! Series wrap-up, Qs, evaluations and feedback, sharing, etc.
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