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The Community Wild Foraging Project

June 29, 2012 By admin

Modern-Day Hunter-Gatherers Flagstaff, Arizona · By Gary Paul Nabhan and Rose Houk Patty West and Teresa DeKoker may be the only university employees in the United States to boast job descriptions as “hunter-gatherers.” As coordinators of the country’s first community wild foraging project, they gather wild foods from farms, ranches, and public lands on the […]

Filed Under: Arizona, Gathering and Hunting, Harvesting Nature, Program - university, SW book, Wild fruit, Wildfoods

Dennis Arp’s Mountain Top Honey

June 29, 2012 By admin

The Sweet Life Mountainaire, Arizona · By Peter Friederici When he was a teenager growing up on an Iowa farm, Dennis Arp once went squirrelhunting with friends and came across some beehives. The boys decided they’d try to extract the honey. Dennis borrowed a veil from his dad, who’d kept bees in the past. Lacking […]

Filed Under: Arizona, Harvesting Nature, SW book

The Diablo Trust

June 29, 2012 By admin

It Takes a Village Coconino County, Arizona · By Sue and Tony Norris The Prosser and the Metzger families have been neighbors for more than eighty years. Their combined ranches, the Bar T Bar and the Flying M, consist of 426,000 acres of federal, state, and private lands spread across a broad swath of northern […]

Filed Under: Arizona, Beef and Dairy, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Forest Preservation and Restoration, Livestock, Program - community, Program - government, SW book, Wildlife Management

Phyllis Hogan’s Winter Sun

June 29, 2012 By admin

Reverence and Reciprocity Flagstaff, Arizona · By Ashley Rood and Rose Houk Phyllis Hogan lives life according to her own script. Applied ethnobotanist-trader, mother-community leader, mentor-scholar, activist-musician – these are the many roles she assumes as part of her philosophy of reverence and reciprocity. Phyllis’s business, Winter Sun Trading Company, is in a historic building […]

Filed Under: Arizona, Arts and Culture, SW book

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