[Srm] FW: Mesquite Conference

[Mcclaran, Mitchel P - (mcclaran)]

Calling all innovative bakers and chefs, gourmet locavores, alternative farmers and creative aggies, wildcrafters and nutrition buffs …..

First-ever mesquite conference with presentations by mesquite experts from the UA and the Tohono O'odham Nation as well as non profit organizations that have been working for years to promote modern mesquite harvesting, consumption and recognition for its potential to become a new arid lands food crop.


Mesquite:  New Agricultural Traditions for an Ancient Food


Friday, June 13,   8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Cochise College Benson Center,  1025 State Hwy 90

Sponsored by UA Cooperative Extension, Western SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education) and Baja Arizona Sustainable Agriculture

Registration of $30  ($25 for BASA Members, $20 students) includes lunch and mesquite snacks.

Register on-line at http://bajaaz.org/calendar/mesquite-workshop/
Mail checks made out to BASA at BASA Mesquite Workshop, P.O. Box 40935, Tucson, 85717. Info:  520-331-9821

Speakers include ethnobotanist Dr. Richard Felger, who first envisioned mesquite as a modern agricultural crop.  Mark Moody who is cultivating mesquite on a large scale in Bouse, Arizona.  Amy Valdes-Schwemm representing Desert Harvesters, the non-profit organization that transports its hammermill around southern Arizona putting on  community mesquite millings. Dr. Howard Frederick, UA Dept of Veterinary Science Associate Professor and Dennis Moroney, sustainable rancher, will address mesquite as food for livestock.  Clifford Pablo, Extension Agent from Tohono O’odham Community College will speak on mesquite management and harvesting on the Tohono O’odham Nation and do a walk in the on-site mesquite bosque.  Martha Ames Burgess will address why mesquite is a superb human food and how to cook with it.   Demonstrations will include pod sorting and drying, food safety issues and testing and baking mesquite breads and desserts in solar ovens.  Mesquite flour and baking mixes and mesquite cookbooks will be for sale.


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