Lavender is Diné and her mother, sister and aunt still live in the Nation in Four Corners area of Arizona. “Mesquite has been culturally important to more than 20 tribes in Arizona alone,” says ...

The free potluck will feature gluten-free mesquite-flour pancakes with prickly-pear syrup and coffee. We encourage participants to bring a potluck item to share. Those without mesquite pods to mill ...

Looking out on the Tucson streets, it may feel a bit like the city has become a dead zone. While pedestrians have taken shelter from the heat inside, now is actually a very interesting time in the ...

Mesquite flour adds its sweet, delicately nutty, uniquely Arizonan flavor to everything it’s used in. But you’ll need to know a couple of things about it before you begin your mesquite flour journey.

The long, string bean-like seed pods are abundant in the Valley. They appear throughout the summer on the mesquite tree, a popular choice for suburban landscapes. For the unknowing, the pods are ...

Even if you don't intentionally grow edibles in your garden, you may have a crop to harvest pretty soon. From late June through September, pods of the mesquite tree begin to ripen into a yellow-beige ...