Calendar
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2009 Calendar of Events
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August 22 – Chile Festival at Bisbee Farmers Market
8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Locally grown green chile without pesticides by San Simon Chile Company available roasted or unroasted by the pound or by burlap sack. A couple of large roasters should keep up with orders but ordering ahead from farmer Jane Wyatt at jwyatt@zekes.com or 520-428-1490 will shorten your wait. Enter your favorite salsa in the Salsa Contest for prizes. Salsa making demo and salsa tasting will follow judging under the special events tree. Live music, Mexican food and handmade arts and crafts. Contact Laura Smith at 236-8409 for more information.
October 10 – Mesquite Milling at Tucson Meet Yourself, Tucson
Main Library courtyard in downtown Tucson, noon to 4 p.m. Desert Harvesters staff and hammermill will be on hand to grind mesquite pods into delicious flour at this wonderful event. For more information go to www.tucsonmeetyourself.org
October 17 – 4th Annual Mesquite Milling & Pancake Breakfast, Bisbee
Bisbee Farmers Market, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Bring clean, dry mesquite pods that snap in half for milling by hammermill. Breakfast includes mesquite pancakes with sugar-free prickly pear syrup or agave nectar & local apple cider. Take home some mesquite goodies from Mesquite Bake Sale. B
y Baja AZ Sustainable Ag, (520)378-2973 or valerie.mccaffrey@bajaaz.org
October 17 - Planting the Future Conference, Tucson
United Plant Savers & Tucson Herbalist Collective at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. This conference on National Herb Day will include presentations by speakers on a variety of topics relating to southwest medicinal plants, preservation and cultivation and their uses. For more information go to www.plantsavers.org and contact: DesertBounty@hotmail.com
November 7 - 7th Annual Desert Harvesters Mesquite Milling Fiesta and Mesquite Pancake Breakfast, Tucson
Dunbar/Spring Organic Community Garden, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mesquite pancake breakfast from 9am to noon, mesquite milling from 8am to 2pm. Breakfast is made with all organic, local ingredients including velvet mesquite pods, organic Arizona wheat and with prickly-pear syrup, mesquite syrup, organic back yard honey, agave nectar, and sometimes (if we are really lucky) saguaro syrup. There are also a variety of locally-made teas and organic coffee for people to try. The price of the pancake breakfast is $1 per pancake, and you get a raffle ticket with each pancake purchased. Live music, and a playground for all to play in. Rain location is Dunbar Auditorium, just north of the garden. Local organic and wild foods will be for sale (mesquite flour; prickly
pear syrup, jam, and juice; mesquite pancake mix; baked goods; chiltepines; cholla buds; olive oil; cured olives; fresh mole mixes) as well as native herbal medicines and teas, organic Desert Harvesters T-shirts, mesquite cookbooks and rainwater harvesting books for sale.
Bring harvested pods (up to 15 gallons) and to be ground into flour for $3 for any amount under 3 gallons, $1 per gallon over this amount of pods.Three hammermills will be operating. You are encouraged to bring at least 3 to 5 gallons of whole pods (5 gallons of whole pods will provide you with about 1 gallon of fine, edible flour in about 5 minutes of milling). If you don’t want to wait to have your pods milled you can leave fully cleaned, mold-free, dry pods with us in sealable containers - each with you name and contact info on them, and we’ll grind them up and call you when all is done. Go to www.desertharvesters.org for more on how we run our millings. The event is hosted by, and is a fundraiser for, Desert Harvesters.
Directions to Dunbar-Spring Community Garden: The garden is located at the corner of 11th Avenue and University Blvd. The nearest major intersection is Speedway & Stone. From Speedway & Stone: Go south on Speedway 3 blocks, and turn right on University Blvd. Go 3 more blocks to 11th Ave. The garden is at the northwest corner of University and 11th.
