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Our 2020 Events & Fun Stuff ARE CANCELLED Until Further Notice





Seasons are changing, and so is Desert Harvesters!



~After many years of being under the fiscal sponsorship of NEST, Inc, we are starting a new partnership with GARDEN Inc.

NEST, under the guidance of Bob Cook, has served as a non-profit community development organization in Tucson since 1989. Bob also started Sustainable Tucson in 2006. We appreciate NEST and wish them well as they re-organize and continue to support sustainability in the community. We look forward to working with GARDEN Inc into 2020 and beyond.



~Check out last year’s Calendar of Events page, chock full of new events and activities from September through the end of the year; including free demos at The Santa Cruz River Farmer’s Market, free presentations at local library branches, trainings, festivals, guided harvest walks, hands-on workshops, and mesquite millings! Please let us know of other events to include in our calendar.

~Announcing the 17th Annual Mesquite Milling and Fiesta!

Because of your feedback, we’ve scheduled a Fall milling event in Tucson, since we missed the opportunity to schedule a pre-summer monsoon milling as we have for the last few years. If you harvested pods pre-monsoon, or if you’re finding pods now at higher elevations, or if you harvested last season and stored pods for milling, or if you plan on harvesting pods when trees put on a second crop of pods in October, please attend this event! See details below. Email inquiries to: milling@desertharvesters.org

Come Volunteer with us! Sign-up to help with our milling, we sure could use you and your skills.



17th Annual Mesquite Milling and Fiesta

November 16th 2019 Tucson Arizona

Las Milpitas Farm 10am-3pm



Featuring:

Vendors, info tables, mini farmers market, music, food trucks, raffle,

mesquite milling services, guided farm tours, cob and solar oven

demos and treats, community, fun, dancing, seasonal celebrations!



See Best Harvest Practices and Milling Fees and Requirements

Keep checking Calendar of Events for updates



~We are looking for Volunteers to be part of this event!

Please contact us, and tell us what you’d like to do: milling@desertharvesters.org

Volunteer opportunities include help with: pod inspection, tickets and sales, cob oven and solar oven baking demos, event setup/breakdown, mill helpers, assisting musicians, kids area organizer, sell raffle tickets, welcome table, parking, event signs, etc. How would you like to help? Perks for volunteering include free raffle tickets!



Desert Harvesters is also seeking Event Supporters, including major sponsors, sponsors, and contributors. Your tax-deductible donations help defray event expenses and ensure that this community tradition continues. See: Event Supporter Perks.



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~Desert Harvesters website is an amazing storehouse of information and inspiration! For years it has served those curious about the native plants and foods of the Sonoran Desert, and their long history of use by people who lived and thrived here thousands of years ago and, not without hardship, into to the present. That legacy informs and guides our current appreciation for the Sonoran Desert, the amazing plants that evolved here, and the people who form relationships with place, plants, and people, for all kinds of sustenance.

WEBSITE UPDATE:



In response to feedback from devoted followers, and the reality of changing technology and communication, we are embarking on a much needed website update and overhaul, to make the website more user and mobile-friendly, to intersperse the density of information with more photos and graphics, and to refresh information and format for accuracy and interest. In addition, new features include:



-More photos, slideshows, videos, maps, art, stories

–NEON: Neighborhood Empowerment and Outreach Network

-More products, presentations, and ways to support Desert Harvesters

-More educational offerings and materials

-Rainwater Harvesting and Sonoran Desert Food Forest Design/Install/Maintain Referrals



Look for the new website, in stages, in early 2020!



Funding is always an issue for our milling & training events, if a few big sponsors want to donate, that allows the milling to happen. A fall milling is a possibility, for storage and harvesting tips, go here :

Have a great harvesting summer!

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