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Fall Planting for Spring Blooms

November 09, 2017 | Laura Neff

Spring wildflower season is one of the desert’s most colorful periods. But planning for those multicolored displays in the spring requires planning in the Fall. The prime time to plant spring flowers in the low desert areas of southern Arizona is during late September through early December.

Community Partner Highlight: Las Milpitas Farm

November 02, 2017 | Nicholas Garber

By Nicholas Garber, Conservation Program Manager. Published November 2, 2017. This cool season NS/S is partnering with the Las Milpitas de Cottonwood Community Farm in Tucson to growout accessions from our Seed Bank Collection. The Las Milpitas de Cottonwood Community Farm is one of the many a...

Cool Season Growing in the Desert

October 19, 2017 | Laura Neff

We are lucky in the Southwest. Generally, we are lucky because of our beautiful ecosystem, but more specifically because we can grow year-round. There is always something that can be planted. The trick is knowing what to plant and when. What is usually a period when gardeners across much of the c...

Great Grasshopper Plague of 2017

September 27, 2017 | Sheryl Joy

Published by Sheryl Joy, Collections Manager on September 17, 2017. Walk across any patch of ground at the Conservation Farm these days and you’ll meet our uninvited guests. Any step through the grass or the crops fields will set off a multitude of little explosions, hordes of grasshoppers leapi...

Conservation Center Garden Updates: September 2017

September 14, 2017 | Michelle Langmaid

Article by Michelle Langmaid, Americorps VISTA Garden and Volunteer Coordinator, published September 14, 2017. The NS/S Garden Crew has been very busy this summer, and while we’ve had fun, nobody is going to say it has been easy! Our dedicated, albeit small, group of Garden Volunteers has accompl...

Tale of Two Seed Libraries

August 16, 2017 | Laura Neff

Seed libraries come in all shapes and sizes but the one thing they all have in common is their main purpose which is to make seeds available and accessible to everyone in a community. They can range from a few shoe boxes in a closet, an old library card catalog in a well-known public space like t...

Adaptation of Ancient Maize to High Elevations of North America

August 08, 2017 | Melissa Kruse-Peeples

A recently published paper in the journal Science, features research results derived from the Native Seeds/SEARCH maize collection. The international team of researchers concluded that key genetic changes allowed maize to be grown in the U.S. southwest highlands 2,000 years ago, a much colder cli...

Monsoon "Weeds"

July 21, 2017 | Melissa Kruse-Peeples

The term weed generally assumed to be unwanted, undesirable wild growing plants. What is unwanted or undesirable is really a matter of personal preference as many of the plants identified as weeds appearing this time of year are considered edible and delicious plants that have a place in the gard...

Everything Mesquite

June 22, 2017 | Laura Neff

What comfort food is sweet, nutrient-dense, has double the protein of the average bean, and helps prevent and treat diabetes? From the title, you probably guessed mesquite! This desert legume has been a food source to Native Americans for thousands of years. But it now seems that mesquite pods ar...

Celebrate Dia de San Juan

June 22, 2017 | Melissa Kruse-Peeples

The annual tradition of celebrating the onset of monsoon season in the Southwest begins with San Juan’s Day or Dia de San Juan on June 24. San Juan’s Day is the feast day for St. John the Baptist, the patron saint of water. The monsoons are coming and soon the life giving water from the sky will ...

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