ABOUT USDesert Harvesters (DH) is based in Tucson, Arizona, in the beautiful, unique Sonoran Desert. For over twenty years Desert Harvesters has supported and grown community food and water security by inspiring the “re-wilding” of urban and suburban neighborhoods with delicious, drought-hardy, super-nutritious desert food plants, and cooking up affordable, place-based recipes anyone can create in their kitchen: A Grass-Roots Gastronomy! |
Welcome to Desert Harvesters’ new website!The site is under construction until projected completion in 2023. It is being designed in response to community feedback to be more organized, user-friendly, easier to navigate, visually engaging, inspiring and interactive. Thanks to all who have helped improve this site!For updated information about Sonoran Desert plants, tending, processing, cooking etc. see our 15 NEW Native Food Guides
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Desert Harvesters is grateful to be able to work within traditional Tohono O'odham,
O'odham Jeweḍ and Pasqua Yaqui homelands, and acknowledges our ongoing commitment
to un-learn and help change colonial behaviors through personal and group work.
On May 23rd you're invited to our first celebration and fundraiser at La Cocina from 5-8pm. We'll have books and bandannas, and LaCo will be making a special Desert Rain Daquiri with a wild desert herbal bitter- hope to see you there! THANKS to the 170+ people who pre-ordered the cookbook- your up-front funding made it all possible! We are grateful for support from the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona's THRIVING COMMUNITIES GRANT and The Community Foundation for Southern Arizona Viva La Vida Local Fund, which helped fund this work. | 
NEON: Neighborhood Empowerment and Outreach Network Got something to share? Want something to harvest? Sign up to join NEON on our facebook page! NEON was created for folx to connect and exchange desert foods and resources focused on planting, tending, harvesting, processing, sharing, innovating, appreciating, trading and using foods from local native Sonoran Desert food forests and Sky Islands.
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Acknowledgements
Desert Harvesters thanks the following organizations for ongoing partnership, support, and generous funding over many years: