Desert & Heritage Foods
Arizona Cactus Ranch
Ranch in Green Valley/Processing plant inTucson
Natalie McGee
(800)582-9903 or (520)625-4419
info@arizonacactusranch.com
www.arizonacactusranch.com
Sugar-free, organic, prickly pear fruit nectar, fruit spread, fruit topping, fruit leather, prickly pear green tea. Pilot mesquite flour operation. (Will ship. Available at Sierra Vista Farmers Market & through Sierra Vista distributor Katherine Zellerbach, (520)458-2237, at Bisbee Food Coop, and at Bashas and NSS Store in Tucson.)
Arizona Chia
Store in Sonoita
Wayne Coates
(520)455-5050
wayne@chiaseedandoil.com
www.chiaseedandoil.com and
www.eatchia.com
Chia is an ancient “health” & energy food of the Aztecs, higher than flax in omega-3s that doesn’t have to be ground or refrigerated. Grown without pesticides. (Available at Sierra Vista Farmers Market (through distributor Katherine Zellerbach, (520)458-2237) and at Native Seeds/SEARCH’s store in Tucson.
Bounty of the Border
Bisbee
Alice Coleman
Healthy foods of the desert for you and your pet. Mesquite flour, prickly pear products & “Crunchers” made with organic mesquite, barley, brown rice flours, water and herbs. (Sold at Bisbee and Sierra Vista Farmers Markets.)
Flor de Mayo
Tucson
Muffin Burgess
(520)742-7270
MarthaAB@aol.com
www.flordemayoarts.com
Ethnobotanist offering desert & NSS foods at farmers markets in Tucson and wild harvesting workshops for desert foods (see
Calendar.)
Montoya Farm
Palominas
Emma and Jim Montoya
bajafish11@netzero.com
Prickly pear pads “nopales” and cut-up “nopalitos” in season. Cactus cookery demonstrations. NSS, heirloom and fresh produce at Bisbee and Sierra Vista Farmers Markets.
Native Seeds/SEARCH, (NSS)
Tucson Seed Bank/ Store at 526 N. Fourth Avenue
Farm in Patagonia
(520)622-5561or toll-free orders: (866)622-5561
info@nativeseeds.org
www.nativeseeds.org
Non profit organization that saves and promotes the seeds and foods of the SW and NW Mexico. Catalogs available for native seeds and products via mail. Heirloom beans, tepary beans, desert-evolved seeds, desert foods (prickly pear, mesquite, chia, cholla cactus buds), desert foods information and cookbooks.
Ramona Farms
Sacaton at Hwy 87 between mile post 152 -153
Terry & Ramona Button
(520)418-3642 or (520)421-0328
Tepary beans.
San Pedro Mesquite Company
Bowie
Kathryn Erhorn
(520)850-2174 or (520)847-1015
info@sanpedromesquite.com
www.spmesquite.com
Mesquite meal, recipe books, cutting boards and mesquite date energy bars.
San Xavier Co-op Farm
Tucson
(520)295-3774
Mesquite flour, traditional crops (tepary beans, 60-day corn, squash, peas, chiles, devil’s claw.)Organization of allottee landowners on San Xavier Indian Reservation.
Seri Fair Trading Post
Sonora, Mexico
Administered by Northern Arizona University’s Center for Sustainable Environments
(928)523-0672 or (928)523-7874
amf43@nau.edu or
laurie.monti@nau.edu
www.environment.nau.edu/seri/
Sonoran mesquite flour, desert lavender, Sonoran Oregano.
Tohono O’odham Community Action (T.O.C.A.)
Sells
(520)383-4966
www.tocaonline.org
Non-profit organization. Traditional produce (yellow-meated watermelon, roasted corn, melon, squash, pink beans) in season, tepary beans, acorns, dried cholla buds, sagurao syrup, saguaro seeds.
Tortilleria Arevalo
11425 W. Camino Lucido in Tucson
Esperanza Arevalo
(520)822-0951
jar102434@tcsat.com
Mesquite flour tortillas and un-sweetened mesquite cookies, apple-sweetened mesquite bread, mesquite meal. Corn tortillas and tamales (green corn, beef, chicken and pork) made with local green chile and tamale corn from Ochoa Farm. (Also sold at Downtown (Tucson), Oro Valley, Sierra Vista and Tucson Farmers Markets.)
