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Our 2008 Adopt-A-Crop is Sweet and Spicy!
Melons and chiles are popular the world over, and by adopting one of these rare heirloom crops, you help preserve varieties unique to the Greater Southwest.
download a pdf of 2008 Sweet and Spicy! Adopt-A-Crop
how you can adopt-a-crop
The Capital Campaign
Native Seeds/SEARCH has exciting plans to build a new facility that will provide a larger, safer and more secure location to house our seed collection. This will allow us to continue and expand our work!
download a pdf for more information The Capital Campaign
 The NS/S Seedbank houses, for future generations, the seeds of crops and wild plants traditionally used as food, fiber and dyes by prehistoric and more recent cultures inhabiting the arid southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico. Learn more.
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SEED LISTINGS >>
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Chiltepines only $5.00 |
| These wild chiles are small, round and very fiery. Crumble 4-5 in hot stir-fry, chile, or anything you want to spice up. A tasty surprise in ic cream! Picked by Chiltepneras, women of a cooperative, in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico. View items in this category. |
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Upcoming Events |
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21 June. Saturday.
Gary Nabhan Book Signing!
 
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm LOCATION: Fourth Avenue Store (526 N. Fourth Avenue)
event details
Renewing America's Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continent's Most Endangered Foods, 2008
THis beautifully illustrated book is a call to recognize, celebrate, and conserve the great diversity of foods that give North America its distinctive multicultural culinary identity.
Arab/American: Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts, 2008
The landscapes, cultures, and cuisines of deserts in the Middle East and North America have commonalities that have seldom been explored by scientists—and have hardly been celebrated by society at large. Sonoran Desert ecologist Gary Nabhan grew up around Arab grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins in a family that has been emigrating to the United States and Mexico from Lebanon for more than a century and he frequently travels to the deserts of the Middle East.
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22 June. Sunday.
Patagonia Annual San Juan's Day Celebration!
10:00 am - 1:00 pm LOCATION: NS/S Conservation Farm in Patagonia
Come tour the farm, help out with a special project and learn all about sweet and spicy grow-out this year focusing on varieties of chiles and melons! And, of course, our the famous Native Seeds/SEARCH potluck lunch!
download the San Juan details
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12 July. Saturday.
Tarahumara, Mayo & Yaqui Craft Presentation & Sale
11:00 am - 1:00 pm LOCATION: Fourth Avenue Store (526 N. Fourth Avenue)
Barney Burns and Mahina Drees, NS/S Co-Founders, will do a presentation on Tarahumara, Mayo and Yaqui crafts. A blue corn food tasting is included and items will be for sale.
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AUGUST
Cooking demonstration by Janos Wilder, chef extraordinaire & Native Seeds/SEARCH board member.
Date & Time: TBA Location: Westin La Paloma Resort & Spa - 3770 East Sunrise Drive
event details will be posted soon!
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