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The Seedhead News is the official newsletter of Native Seeds/SEARCH, published tri-annually. Current and past issues are made available here in digital format for members and non-members alike. One newsletter per year is mailed to members. Two are distributed electronically.

No. 110: Summer 2011
Investing in our Future  ·  From Our Directors  ·  From Our Board Chair  ·  New NS/S Seed Library  ·  Conservation Farm Surprises  ·  NS/S Expands Seed Line  ·  From Our Friends  ·  New Website  ·  Permaculture Course, Seed School, Grain School  ·  Plant Seeds. Harvest Change.  ·  Flavors of the Desert  ·  Volunteer Salute: Meet Stan Stalker  ·  Photo Diversity Contest  ·  Announcing Seed Watch  ·  Welcome to Seed Central!  ·  NS/S Salons  ·  Harvest Dinner  ·  Wish List
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No. 109: Spring 2011
From Our Directors: Greetings to All Our Wonderful Members!  ·  Seed School: Teaching Gardeners and Farmers to 'Think Seeds First!'  ·  The Seeds of Sustainability: Preserving the Past One Plant at a Time  ·  A Short History of Panic Grass  ·  Volunteer Highlight: Meet Val Plumlee
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SN 107 2010
No. 108: Winter 2011
From Our Director  ·  Two New Reports Forecast Food Security Changes in the Southwest: The Role that Native Seeds/SEARCH Plays  ·  Program Accomplishments  ·  NS/S Staff Highlights: Meet Our 2010 Seed SEARCHers of the Month!  ·  Thank You For Your Support!  ·  Volunteer Highlight: Meet Karen Delay  ·  ¡Adios Amiga! Suzanne Nelson Retires to TANGO  ·  Congratulations Community Seed Grant Recipients!
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SN 107 2010
No. 107: Fall 2010
We've Come a Long Way!  ·  From Our Director  ·  An Intimate Evening with Diana Kennedy  ·  Improvements to the Native Seeds/SEARCH Collections: Current Efforts and Future Goals  ·  NS/S Staff Highlights: Meet Our 2010 Seed SEARCHers of the Month!  ·  From Our Friends...  ·  Volunteer Highlight: Meet David Kelly
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SN 106 2010
No. 106: Spring/Summer 2010
From Our Director  ·  Harvesting the Dream  ·  An Exciting—and Challenging—Time for Ex Situ Conservation of Crop Diversity  ·  Genetic Erosion Through Plant Variety Loss  ·  Interactive Fruit  ·  NS/S Staff Highlights: Meet Our 2010 Seed SEARCHers of the Month!  ·  From Our Friends...  ·  Volunteer Highlight: Meet Suzy Lillis  ·  Native Views on Sustainable Foods  ·  Flavors of the Desert 2010
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SN 105 2010
No. 105: Winter 2010
From Our Board Chair: Growing Forward Together  ·  Our Future Home: NS/S Conservation Center at Brandi Fenton Memorial Park  ·  Update on Our Capital Campaign  ·  Program Accomplishments  ·  Your Generosity Keeps Us Growing!  ·  Volunteer Highlight: Fania Bevill  ·  Meet 3rd Quarter's 2009 Seed SEARCHers of the Month!  ·  Building Partnerships with Native American Communities
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SN 104 2009
No. 104: Fall/Winter 2009
From Our Director  ·  Our Future Home: NS/S Conservation Center at Brandi Fenton Memorial Park  ·  NS/S Staff Highlights: Meet Our 2009 Seed SEARCHers of the Month!  ·  Conservation Update  ·  Adopt a Crop Update  ·  Mother Chiltepin  ·  Volunteer Highlight: Bob Small  ·  Indigenous Farmers Markets of the Great Southwest  ·  Celebrating the Harvest of Native Seeds/SEARCH
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SN 104 2009
No. 103: Summer Solstice 2009
San Juan's Day  ·  From Our Director  ·  NS/S Staff Highlights  ·  Southwest Native American Basketry  ·  Immersion Course in Crop Genetics Returns to UA by Popular Demand  ·  A Short History of Mrs. Burns' Lemon Basil  ·  Review of Amy Goldman's The Heirloom Tomato  ·  Remembering Alice Hannah Brown  ·  Volunteer Highlight: Peadar Hoard
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SN 104 2009
No. 102: Winter Solstice 2008
Potato Parks in Peru  ·  From Our Director  ·  Growing Up Farming in Jemez Pueblo, NM  ·  Gardening with Claire  ·  Review of Renewing America's Food Traditions, Edited by Gary Paul Nabhan  ·  Update on Our Capital Campaign  ·  Program Accomplishments  ·  Your Generosity Keeps Us Growing  ·  Remembering Danny Lopez  ·  Volunteer Highlight: Ed Hacskaylo  ·  Junie Hostetler's Pinole Bars  ·  Staff Highlight: J.P. Wilhite  ·  Janos Harvest Dinner  ·  Volunteers Keep Fourth Avenue Humming
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SN 104 2009
No. 101: Autumn Equinox 2008
Spanish Additions to the Agriculture of the Sonoran Desert  ·  From Our Director  ·  Remembering Harman Lomawaima and Bruce Symonds  ·  Isleta Agriculture  ·  Volunteer Highlight: Maggie White  ·  Goat Cheese and Sun-Dried Tomato Rellenos  ·  Staff Highlight: Meet Lindsay Werth  ·  Review of Brad Lancaster's Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond: Vol. 2  ·  Conservation Update  ·  Thanks Awfully, Julie!  ·  Update on Adopt-A-Crop  ·  Update on Our Capital Campaign
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SN 104 2009
No. 100: Spring Equinox 2008
From Our Director  ·  Remembering Tom Swain and Bob Zahner  ·  Mycorrhizae  ·  Native American Agriculture Fall 2007  ·  Mission-Era Agricultural Legacy of Baja California  ·  Cheri's Arizona Sunrise Muffins  ·  Review of Gary Paul Nabhan's Enduring Seeds: Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation
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SN 104 2009
No. 99: Winter Solstice 2007
25th Anniversary Issue  ·  Conservation Update  ·  Fall NS/S Events  ·  Recipes  ·  Your Generosity Keeps Us Growing!  ·  NS/S Goes to College
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SN 104 2009
No. 98: Fall Equinox 2007
Conservation at Native Seeds/SEARCH  ·  San Juan's Day Celebration
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SN 104 2009
No. 97: Summer Solstice 2007
The Mexican "Tortilla Crisis" of 2007  ·  Conservation Update  ·  Flavors of the Desert 2007  ·  Running Seeds in the Sierra  ·  Poetry by Ed Mendoza
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SN 104 2009
No. 96: Spring Equinox 2007
A Week in Alamos  ·  Terra Madre 2006: Reflections and Future Actions  ·  Terra Madre: A Summary  ·  Slow Food  ·  Wild Things  ·  Our Financial Health: Fiscal Year 2006  ·  A Recap from Fall Events
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SN 104 2009
No. 95: Winter Solstice 2006
Cowpeas  ·  Phoenix College Students Plant with the Monsoons  ·  Review of Jeff Biggers's In the Sierra Madre  ·  Investing in the Future, Banking on the Past: Capital Campaign for a New Seed Bank Announced  ·  Your Generosity Keeps Us Growing  ·  10th Anniversary Harvest Dinner  ·  Harvest Dinner Recipes  ·  Home Garden Tour
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SN 104 2009
No. 94: Fall Equinox 2006
Journeys into Native America: A Year of Outreach to Native American Communities and Farmers  ·  Conservation Update  ·  San Juan's Day Celebration  ·  Culinary Challenge: Plant the Seed, Tell the Story
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SN 104 2009
No. 93: Summer Solstice 2006
Apples to Oranges: Southwest Regis-Tree Expands Conservation of Historic Heirloom Orchards  ·  Conservation Update  ·  Flavors of the Desert 2006
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SN 104 2009
No. 92: Spring Equinox 2006
Amaranth: A Grain for All Ages  ·  Our Financial Health: Fiscal Year 2005  ·  In Memoriam: Louisa R. Beck
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SN 104 2009
No. 91: Winter Solstice 2005
Conservation Update  ·  We've Got the BEST Board  ·  Recipes from the Arizona Harvest Dinner  ·  NS/S and the Western National Parks Association Cook Up a New Publication  ·  Your Generosity Keeps Us Growing  ·  Chia  ·  Book Reviews  ·  More Fall Events and Happenings at NS/S
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SN 104 2009
No. 90: Fall Equinox 2005
The Mission Grape  ·  Kino Fruit Tree Project  ·  Arizona Regis-TREE  ·  First Ever Farm Tour and Native Foods Celebration  ·  A Visitor from the Sierra Madre!  ·  San Juan's Day Celebration 2005  ·  Conservation Program Update  ·  Oh, to Bee a Pollinator Intern  ·  An Unbroken Circle: Volunteering at Native Seeds/SEARCH
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SN 104 2009
No. 89: Summer Solstice 2005
Ten Years of Seed Conservation  ·  Okra  ·  Flavors of the Desert 2005
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No. 88: Spring Equinox 2005
Sierra Madre Project Update  ·  Only With the Rains  ·  Conservation Program Update  ·  New NS/S Cookbook Available Soon  ·  Our Financial Health: Fiscal Year 2004  ·  Geneologies of Globalization
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SN 104 2009
No. 87: Winter Solstice 2004
RAFT: A 21st Century Ark  ·  Crops and Culture: A Visit to the Hopi Mesas  ·  Storing Traditions for the Future: the Cultural Memory Bank Project  ·  Your Generosity Keeps Us Growing  ·  A New Home for the NS/S Tractor Fleet  ·  Announcing the New NS/S Gardeners Network
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SN 104 2009
No. 86: Fall Equinox 2004
Sun Trackers: Genius of the Genus Helianthus  ·  Recipes  ·  Conservation Farm Update  ·  NS/S Attends First World Conference on Organic Seed Production  ·  San Juan's Day Celebration 2004
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SN 104 2009
No. 85: Summer Solstice 2004
The Mystery of Maize  ·  Adopt-A-Crop 2004  ·  Living Treasures of the Sierra Madre  ·  Flavors of the Desert 2004  ·  NS/S Hosts Yale Grad Student in Research on Traditional Farming in NW Mexico  ·  Cool Chiles, Hot Harvest
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SN 104 2009
No. 84: Spring Equinox 2004
Blessings and Laments: Danny Lopez Prescribes an Ancient Diet to Overcome Modern Disease  ·  Teps for TOCA  ·  Conservation Farm Update  ·  Financial Highlights - Fiscal Year 2003  ·  The Seed Loophole  ·  Research at Native Seeds/SEARCH  ·  Adopt a Crop Update
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SN 104 2009
No. 83: Winter Solstice 2003
The World of Melons  ·  Review of Amy Goldman's Melons for the Passionate Grower  ·  Conservation Farm Update  ·  The Next Three Years  ·  Many Thanks to Our Donors  ·  Review of Daniel Imhoff and Roberto Carra's Farming with the Wild: Enhancing Biodiversity on Farms and Ranches  ·  Native Seeds/SEARCH Joins Wild Farm Alliance  ·  Kestrels Find New Home on the Conservation Farm
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SN 104 2009
No. 82: Fall Equinox 2003
Pollination and Purity: Some Seed Saving Basics  ·  Wild Chiles Threatened  ·  Sonoran Panic Grass  ·  Conservation Farm Update
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SN 104 2009
No. 81: Summer Solstice 2003
Grow them Sustainably, Irrigate them Slowly: Honoring Farmers and Ranchers in the Painted Desert  ·  Biopharming: Food Crops Become Pharmaceutical Factories  ·  Flavors of the Desert 2003  ·  Conservation Farm Update  ·  Review of Kim Nelson and Cynthia Miller's Southwest Kitchen Garden
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SN 104 2009
No. 80a: Spring 2003
20th Anniversary Issue  ·  Here's a Look at What We've Been Doing Over the Past 20 Years!  ·  San Juan's Day  ·  Native Seeds/SEARCH Collecting History  ·  Welcome to Our New Executive Director! (Kevin Dahl)  ·  Fiscal Year 2002 Financial Performance Highlights  ·  Keeping Alive Food Options in Deserts: Native Seeds/SEARCH (originally printed in 1983)
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SN 104 2009
No. 80: Winter Solstice 2002
Hooked on Devil's Claw  ·  Ancient Seeds Come to Life - A Report on the 2002 Season  ·  Thank You for Your Generous Support!  ·  Farewell to Michael McDonald and Deron Beal
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SN 104 2009
No. 78: Fall Equinox 2002
Trinchera Tradition in the Sierra Madre  ·  Busy as Bees in Summer: News from the Conservation Farm  ·  Memories from Summer Intern Kevin Uehlinger  ·  Red Hot Strawberries
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SN 104 2009
No. 77: Summer Solstice 2002
Farming Project's Hopeful Vision of a Future Better Connected to Its Past  ·  Clayton Brascoupe Talks About Spiral Herb Gardening  ·  Closing the Circle - Returning Guarijio Seeds  ·  Flavors of the Desert 2002  ·  Farm News  ·  Letter to the Editor  ·  Announcing the New Native Seeds/SEARCH Website
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SN 104 2009
No. 76: Spring Equinox 2002
GMO's and the Oaxacan Connection  ·  Review of Gary Paul Nabhan's Coming Home to Eat  ·  Tepary Tidbits  ·  Filling the Need - Mahina Remembers  ·  Fiscal Year 2001 Financial Performance Highlights  ·  Tasty Chiles from Isleta, NM
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SN 104 2009
No. 75: Winter Solstice 2001
Old World Crops Meet New World Needs  ·  A Taste of Oaxaca  ·  Tohono O'odham Community Action  ·  Conservation Farm Harvest Report  ·  Year-End Letter from the Executive Director  ·  Thanks to All Our Friends
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SN 104 2009
No. 74: Fall Equinox 2001
Beautiful Beans: Protein from the New World  ·  6th Annual Native American Permaculture Design Course  ·  News from the Furrow  ·  Mayocobas and Enolas: Beans by Any Other Name  ·  Bean Family Cover Crops: Nitrogen-Fixing on the Farm  ·  Adopt-A-Crop News  ·  The Amazing Acorn  ·  Samuel Michael, Volunteer Extraordinaire
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SN 104 2009
No. 73: Summer Solstice 2001
Wheat - the Well Traveled Grain  ·  Flavors of the Desert  ·  The Whole Wheat  ·  Global Genes - Who Can Use Them and What's It Worth to You?  ·  National Seed Bank Asks Congress for $10,000,000 Increase in Budget  ·  A Volunteer's Perspective  ·  Gardening with the Monsoon in the High Desert  ·  News from the Furrow  ·  Review of Mary Hodgson's Food Plants of the Sonoran Desert  ·  Giving Back
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SN 104 2009
No. 72: Spring Equinox 2001
Protecting Precious Life  ·  Meet Michael McDonald  ·  A Strategic Jump-Start  ·  A Farewell to Felipe Molina  ·  Board Member Profile: Phyllis Hogan  ·  Herb Profile: Poliomintha incana  ·  Once Common Crop Varieties Returned to Farmers' Fields
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SN 104 2009
No. 71: Winter Solstice 2000
On the Significance of Weeding  ·  Harvest 2000: A Study in Speckles, Stripes, and Solids  ·  Mesquite: Nutritious, Tasty, and There When You Need It  ·  Volunteer's Perspective  ·  From Chiltepines to Chivas, It's Been a Wild Ride! A Farewell from Executive Director, Angelo J. Joaquin, Jr.  ·  NS/S Receives USDA SARE Grants
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SN 104 2009
No. 70: Fall Equinox 2000
Diversity is the Spice of Life  ·  Peppers, Peppers, Peppers  ·  Late-Breaking Report: Adopt-a-Crop  ·  To Our Members and Friends from the Executive Director  ·  My San Juan's Day  ·  We Are Fortunate to Have Many Dedicated Supporters: Meet Ed (Board), Amy (Staff), and Janos (Member)  ·  A View from the NS/S Furrow  ·  Desert Walk Interns  ·  Storefront Makeover
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SN 104 2009
No. 69: Summer Solstice 2000
The Conservation Farm 2000: Fulfilling the Mission  ·  Flavors of the Desert 2000  ·  Evolution and Growing Pains for Native Seeds/SEARCH  ·  A Week in the Life of a Native Seeds/SEARCH Intern  ·  Adiós Amiga: Junie Hostetler Departs after Thirteen Years  ·  Stories from the Road  ·  Ode to Brett Bakker
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SN 104 2009
No. 67-68: Spring Equinox 2000
Hiding, West of Here: A Short Story by Simon Ortiz  ·  Conservation Farm Update  ·  Year 2000 Aconcagua Journey to Benefit NS/S  ·  Desert Walk March 10-21, 2000 Raises Funds for Native American Internships  ·  Volunteers Keep the Seeds Sprouting  ·  Our Favorite Potluck Treats  ·  Indigenous Plant Knowledge Forum  ·  Review of Dave DeWitt's The Chile Pepper Encyclopedia
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SN 104 2009
No. 66: Fall Equinox 1999
Toasting El Chiltepin!  ·  The Chile Man: Josh Tewksbury's Chile Experience  ·  Bugs at the Farm!  ·  Achieving a State of Balance - A Letter from Executive Director Angelo J. Joaquin, Jr.  ·  Volunteers Help Us Grow  ·  History in the Making at the Conservation Farm
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SN 104 2009
No. 65: Summer Solstice 1999
From the Freezer to the Furrow: Regenerating the Seeds of the Past  ·  Review of Burning Sky's Enter the Earth  ·  Diabetes Artist in Residence  ·  Friends of the Farm  ·  "En Boca Cerrada, No Entran Moscas..."  ·  A Successful Flavors of the Desert  ·  Easter in the Sierra Madre
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SN 104 2009
No. 64: Spring Equinox 1999
Native Seeds/SEARCH Launches Friends of the Farm  ·  Partnership with the Nature Conservancy  ·  The Aconcagua Journey  ·  Terminator Technology: A Brief Overview  ·  Kyoto Traditional Vegetables  ·  Results of a Survey on our Free Seed Policy for Native Americans  ·  Meet Lois Friedman  ·  Book Reviews  ·  Friends of the Farm Contributors
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SN 104 2009
No. 63: Winter Solstice 1998
Winter Activities in the Spotlight  ·  Native American Outreach Program  ·  Review of Under the Green Corn Moon  ·  Guiding People to Better Health  ·  A Hermit's Progress  ·  Chiles, Checks and Wild Grapes  ·  Managing the First-Year Bounty in Patagonia  ·  In Memory of Sean Burlew
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SN 104 2009
No. 62: Fall Equinox 1998
Reflections on Turning Fifteen  ·  Review of La Vida Norteña: Photographs of Sonora, Mexico  ·  Review of Wood that Sings: Indian Fiddle Music of the Americas  ·  A Mammoth "Muchas Gracias" to All of the Dedicated Volunteers at NS/S  ·  New Native American Membership Policy  ·  On the Farm: First Season Recap
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SN 104 2009
No. 61: Summer Solstice 1998
Cultural Memory Bank Project Update: Trips to the Navajo Nation  ·  Review of The Great Sunflower Book  ·  Reflections on 20 Years of Seed-Saving  ·  Wild Chile Botanical Area  ·  Views from the Farm  ·  Prescott College Collaborates on Regis-TREE
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SN 104 2009
No. 60: Spring Equinox 1998
The NS/S Conservation Farm  ·  The State of the Seedbank (More on Why We Bought the Farm)  ·  An Appetizing Quartet (Cookbook Reviews)  ·  So Long and Thanks for All the Fun  ·  Garden Reports  ·  Notes from New Mexico
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SN 104 2009
No. 59: Winter Solstice 1997
A Tale of Two Interns  ·  Kelina's Spicy Soup  ·  Review of Southern Scratch's Piast Tas ("Fiesta Time")  ·  Volunteers Keep NS/S Thriving  ·  Meet Mary Sarvak, Volunteer Coordinator  ·  Tohono O'odham Community Action  ·  Returning the Seed to the Seri: Wild Teparies Reclaimed by "Keeper of the Desert Treasure"  ·  A Native Seeds/SEARCH Conservation Farm  ·  Voices of the Land: Benefit Reading a Literary Success  ·  In Memory of Gail Meyers
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SN 104 2009
No. 58: Autumn Equinox 1997
"Desert Foods for Diabetes" Receives Harry Chapin Self-Reliance Award  ·  Diabetes Program Outreach Targets Kids and Cooks  ·  11th Annual La Fiesta de los Chiles  ·  Grand Opening and New Retail Store a Huge Success  ·  The Shape and Scope of Diversity  ·  Review of Healthy Mexican American Cooking
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SN 104 2009
No. 57: Summer Solstice 1997
We're On the Move to a New Home  ·  Cultural Memory Bank Deposits are Growing  ·  Lemon Basil and Tomato Pasta  ·  Squash May be the Oldest Sister  ·  Picking Peas  ·  Proyecto de Recursos Tarahumara: the NS/S Sierra Madre Project  ·  NS/S - New Mexico Update  ·  NS/S Embarks on New Leg of Journey
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SN 104 2009
No. 55-56: Winter Solstice 1996 - Spring Equinox 1997
Brother Corn, Sister Moon: Traditional American Indian Gardening  ·  Diabetes Project Coordinator Felipe Molina Survives Sabbatical  ·  Native Soil: Lakotas Garden for Health and Independence  ·  Tohono O'odham Elected President of the North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance  ·  Garden Reports  ·  Book Reviews  ·  Report from the Board Chair
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SN 104 2009
No. 54: Autumn Equinox 1996
From The Forgotten Pollinators: The Survival of Mayan Beekeeping  ·  Summer 1996 Grow-Out Project Success  ·  It's the 10th Annual La Fiesta de los Chiles!  ·  Ten Reasons to Spend Ten Years Celebrating the Chile Pepper  ·  Garden Reports  ·  NS/S Demonstration Garden Thrives with Monsoon Rains  ·  New Cultural Memory Bank
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SN 104 2009
No. 53: Summer Solstice 1996
Karnal Bunt: There is Fungus Among Us and Our Wheat is Off the Street  ·  1996 Regis-TREE Awards  ·  We Own It - Our Sylvester House Annex!  ·  Changes and New Faces  ·  Garden Reports  ·  Review of Sweet Heat: Spicy Desserts (& More!) For Chile Lovers
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SN 104 2009
No. 52: Spring Equinox 1996
Native American Gardening and the Circle of Life  ·  Springtime at Sylvester House  ·  Review of Cilantro  ·  Activities to Celebrate Your Place in the Springtime Sun  ·  Garden Reports  ·  Chiltepin Seed Germination
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SN 104 2009
No. 51: Winter Solstice 1995
Losing Species, Languages and Stories: Cultural and Environmental Change in the Binational Southwest  ·  Traditional Native American Farmers' Association Moves to Seventh Generation Fund  ·  Lack of Diversity Zaps U.S. Crops  ·  NS/S Helps to Introduce Traditional Foods to Indian Health Service Hospital at Sells  ·  Misadventures in Seed Collecting  ·  Connecting to Earth's Healing  ·  New Seed Policy for Native American Gardeners  ·  The Developing Story of Native Seeds' Growth  ·  Cooking with Native Seeds  ·  Members Offer Free Seeds to Native American Growers  ·  Seed-Collecting Quandries: What's in a Name?  ·  Garden Reports
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SN 104 2009
No. 50: Autumn Equinox 1995
Sylvester House Nears Completion  ·  Arizona RegisTree Gets a Boost from Busy Intern  ·  A Promise Fulfilled: the Sylvester House Grow-Out Gardens are All Dug and Planted  ·  Visit the NS/S Demonstration Garden During the Chile Fiesta  ·  A Circle Closed: Jose Ramos Oyengue  ·  50 Issues of Seedhead News: Treasuring Seeds and Peoples  ·  Garden Reports  ·  Review of Wild Foods of the Sonoran Desert
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SN 104 2009
No. 49: Summer Solstice 1995
It Grows in My Grandma's Back Yard  ·  Cultural Equity: The Dialogue Continues  ·  Native Seeds and Sonoran Institute to Expand Garden and Conservation Efforts in Sierra Madre  ·  A Growing Legacy at the NS/S Seed Bank  ·  A Celebration of Garden Wild Places  ·  Garden Reports  ·  Cookbook Reviews
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SN 104 2009
No. 48: Spring Equinox 1995
To Change in a Good Way  ·  A Celebration of Desert Cultures  ·  Gardens, Eats, and Workshops - March Madness at Sylvester House  ·  Looking for Tobacco  ·  Springtime in the Sierra Madre  ·  Garden Reports  ·  Seed Bank Workshop at NS/S  ·  Who Controls Your Seeds  ·  Mid-America Prayer
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SN 104 2009
No. 47: Winter Solstice 1994
Desert Follies and Border-Line Fools  ·  Changing of the Guard: Angelo Joaquin, Jr., Replaces Mahina Drees as Native Seeds Director  ·  Tarahumara Famine Relief; Sierra Madre Project Update  ·  Intellectual Property Rights: A Forum of Ideas and Views  ·  Native Seeds/SEARCH Principles for Honoring Indigenous Knowledge  ·  Survey Results: Solving Cross-Cultural Conflicts  ·  Plants and Seeds as "Intellectual Property"  ·  Garden Reports  ·  New Seed Collections from New Mexico  ·  Forging Links with the Conservation Community
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SN 104 2009
No. 46: Autumn Equinox 1994
The Corn's Song  ·  Native American Cultural Property Rights: Taking the Symbols Out of the Wares  ·  La Fiesta de los Chiles  ·  Sierra Madre Orchards and Gardens Project Gets Growing  ·  From the NS/S Seedlisting: Crop Profiles  ·  All Fired Up: Chile Recipes from NS/S Staff, Members and Harvest Catalog Cookbooks  ·  Garden Reports  ·  The Mother of All Chiles: Wild and Hot at Rock Corral  ·  Native Seeds Welcomes New Board Members  ·  Review of Seeds of Change: The Living Treasure
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SN 104 2009
No. 45: Summer Solstice 1994
Tohono O'odham Cowpea Scores Well in Intercropping Test  ·  1994 Regis-TREE Awards  ·  First Steps in the Sierra Madre Garden and Orchards Project  ·  Three Who Served  ·  Seed Savers' Alert!  ·  Sustaining Wild Plant Harvests  ·  Gardening at Sacred Mountain  ·  Thank You for Your Donations to Sylvester House  ·  Garden Reports  ·  Bates College Ecology Students Test Devil's Claw Germination  ·  Review of Living Community: A Permaculture Case Study at Sol y Sombra
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SN 104 2009
No. 44: Spring Equinox 1994
Children in Touch, Creatures in Story  ·  Old-Growth Forest Jewels of the Sierra Madre  ·  Planting and Growing at Sylvester House  ·  Tasting the Blessings in Pueblo Chiles  ·  The Cholla Bud Harvest: A Desert Gift  ·  Cholla Buds - Great Tasting, Good for You  ·  Garden Reports
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SN 104 2009
No. 43: Winter Solstice 1993
The Battle for the Treasure of the Sierra Madre  ·  Sylvester House Update: Corn and Squash, Plumbing and Plaster  ·  The Thai-Sonoran Desert Connection  ·  A Gift of Seeds, a Gift of Life  ·  Native American Farmers Association Gets Down to Business  ·  Garden Reports  ·  Brett's New Mexico Farm Report  ·  Juanita Ahil, 1913-1994
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SN 104 2009
No. 41-42: Summer Solstice - Autumn Equinox 1993
Gardens Galore! The Renovation of Our New Sylvester House Annex is Under Way  ·  How the Sylvester House Gardens Will Save Native Seeds  ·  News from Chile Heaven  ·  More on Germinating Chiltepines: Try a Little Tenderizer  ·  Thanks for Your Help  ·  Corn, Melons, and More  ·  Trees That Speak: Arizona Regis-TREE Honorees  ·  International Diabetes Conferences Highlight Health Through Native Foods and Traditional Culture  ·  New Hope for Diabetics: Slow-Release Foods Control Blood Sugar Levels, Boost Endurance  ·  Southwest Food Literacy Quiz  ·  Garden Reports  ·  Garlic-Growing Tips from the Ugalde Family  ·  NS/S Garlic Trials  ·  Highlights of Native Seeds' 1992 Annual Report  ·  NS/S Native American Membership Triples  ·  Mayordoma: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico  ·  Review of Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves: An American Naturalist in Italy
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SN 104 2009
No. 40: Spring Equinox 1993
10th Anniversary Issue  ·  Sowing Native Seeds for a Decade of Growth  ·  Yaqui Deer Songs: Maso Bwikam  ·  Diabetes Coordinator Felipe Molina Brings Yaqui Insights to NS/S Staff  ·  Concern Grows Over Sierra Madre Logging Plans  ·  Historic Tucson Ranch House Soon to be NS/S Office Annex  ·  Garden Reports  ·  Review of A Full Life in a Small Place, and Other Essays from a Desert Garden
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SN 104 2009
No. 39: Winter Solstice 1992
A Desert Diet Demonstration in Utah  ·  The Endangered Peoples and Species of the Sierra Madre: World Bank Forestry Project Update  ·  Forester's Critique: Sierra Madre Forestry Project Will Not Sustain Biological Diversity  ·  Endangered Plants, Animals, and Places in Native American Traditions  ·  Helen's Story (Helen Hai'cu A:ga)  ·  Garden Reports  ·  NS/S Staff Changes  ·  Thanks, Eloise
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SN 104 2009
No. 38: Autumn Equinox 1992
Reflections on a Native Harvest of Seeds  ·  As the Soil Turns: Patagonia Farm Comes Up Dry; Land Hunt Continues  ·  Seedy Energizers  ·  The World Bank Responds  ·  The Corn Maiden's Song  ·  Daniel's Story  ·  Exploring Parallels Between Australian and Southwest Indian Diabetes  ·  Garden Reports
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SN 104 2009
No. 37: Summer Solstice 1992
Native Farmers Meeting an Outstanding Success!  ·  Questions for the World Bank  ·  Garden Reports  ·  Gourds: Prehistoric Tupperware  ·  Shelling Corn in the 1930s  ·  Diabetes Program Update  ·  Ear Today, Gone Tomorrow  ·  Holy Pinole!  ·  NS/S Sells Pueblo Sculpture to Phoenix's Heard Museum
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SN 104 2009
No. 36: Spring Equinox 1992
Havasupai Sunflower: Unique Resistance to Major Crop Disease  ·  Garden Reports  ·  The Latest News from the Sierra Madres  ·  Why Save Seeds?  ·  Safe Sex for Common Garden Crops  ·  The Gift of Colored Corn  ·  Native American Seedbank Workshop
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No. 35: Winter Solstice 1991
Reports from Your Gardens  ·  Sierra Madre "Development" Update  ·  Research Begins at Chile Reserve  ·  Herbarium Specimens
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No. 34: Fall Equinox 1991
Restoring and Re-storying the Landscape  ·  Status of the NS/S Corn (Maize) Collection  ·  NS/S Nominates Sierra Madre as a Global Center of Plant Diversity  ·  Sierra Madre Logging Project Update  ·  An August Day at the New Mexico Grow Out Plot  ·  Conserving Biodiversity in North America: A Report from the 1991 Keystone Consultation  ·  Garden Reports  ·  Ramada, Roundhouse Built Near Demonstration Garden  ·  Tucson Grow Out Report  ·  Southwest Native Farmer Network  ·  NS/S Joins NAJA
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No. 32-33: Spring Equinox - Summer Solstice 1991
Sierra Madre World Bank "Development" or Logging Project?  ·  Garden Reports  ·  Conserving Traditional Zuni Crops  ·  Saving Seeds for the Future  ·  Diabetes Project Update  ·  Introducing Intern Tina Scott  ·  Seed Collection and Native American Rights  ·  Seed Collection Curation at Native Seeds/SEARCH  ·  RegisTREE Update  ·  1991 New Mexico Growout
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SN 104 2009
No. 31: Winter Solstice 1990
Garden Reports  ·  Bush Food: Australia's Revival of Wild Edibles  ·  Southwest Seed Summit Convenes  ·  Indian Food is Healthy Food  ·  Diabetes Project Update  ·  Endangered Varieties Grow Out  ·  NS/S Conservation Farm: The Search Heats Up  ·  Navajos Train with NS/S  ·  RegisTREE Update  ·  Forestry Threatens Tarahumara
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SN 104 2009
No. 30: Fall Equinox 1990
Gary Nabhan Awarded Two Felloships  ·  Garden Report from Supai  ·  New World Dyeplant: Palo de Brasil  ·  Send In Your Phytoliths  ·  Native Foods and Diabetes Project Takes Off  ·  My Appetite Belongs to the Convenience Store  ·  Why are Chile Peppers so HOT?  ·  Wild Chile Reserve Plans Proceed  ·  Two Chiltepin Recipes  ·  New NS/S Project Will Honor Folk Variety Fruit, Nut Trees
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SN 104 2009
No. 29: Summer Solstice 1990
Diversity and Change in Hopi Crop Repertoires  ·  In Memoriam: Rodney Engard  ·  NS/S Proposes Rock Corral Canyon Tributary as Forest Service Botanical Area  ·  1989-90 Annual Report  ·  Epazote: Aztec Herb for Today's Table and Medicine Chest  ·  Nutritional and Pharmacological Properties of Yerbaniz, Epazote and Mountain Pima Oregano  ·  Review of Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Diversity  ·  Garden Reports  ·  The Rose and the Amaranth
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No. 28: Spring Equinox 1990
Garden Reports from Our Members  ·  Good Gourd! They've Taken Over the Yard!  ·  Growers Network Suspended  ·  Handspinning Home-grown Cotton  ·  Javelinas Teach Us: Planting Song is Not Enough  ·  NY's 1925 Indian Garden  ·  Introducing New Interns  ·  Hohokam Agave Status as Threatened Species "Warranted"; Still No Federal Protection  ·  Nabhan to Return to NS/S Staff on Research Sabbatical  ·  Sonoran Snaps
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No. 27: Winter Solstice 1989
Hopi Agriculture: A Tradition for the Future  ·  Seed Savers in Their Own Right: Erik-Anders Shapiro  ·  Survey Reveals an Active Membership  ·  Welcome New Board Members  ·  Native American Interns  ·  To Change in a Good Way
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No. 26: Fall Equinox 1989
The Havasupai Gardening Tradition  ·  Uranium Mining: Havasu Canyon Threatened  ·  Threatened Hohokam Agaves Need Your Help  ·  Seed Storage Tip  ·  Singing Up the Corn  ·  Mesa Verde National Park 1989 Experimental Garden  ·  Fiesta de los Chiles 1989  ·  Past Seedhead Articles  ·  Good Gourd!  ·  Hopi Dye Seed Crops
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No. 25: Summer Solstice 1989
1988 Farm Grow Out Report  ·  The Three Sisters  ·  1988-89 Annual Report  ·  Membership Survey  ·  Declaration of Belem
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SN 104 2009
No. 24: Spring Equinox 1989
Invisible Erosion: The Rise and Fall of Native Farming  ·  The Planting Stick  ·  Farm Notes  ·  San Juan's Day: Evening Celebration and Planting Workshop
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No. 23: Winter Solstice 1988
Most Recent Updates from Northwest Mexico  ·  Seed Savers in Their Own Right: Rodney Engard  ·  Thinking Globally, Saving Diversity Locally: Highlights of the Latin American Seminar on the Conservation of Genetic Resources  ·  NS/S Seed Conservation Efforts Praised  ·  Spring Planting Day: Seed Sale and Planting Workshop  ·  Diversity and Small-Scale Traditional Agriculture  ·  Book Reviews  ·  Fiesta de los Chiles 1988  ·  Enjoying the Fruits of Our Labor  ·  Mail Order Tales  ·  New Office Space and Land Fund Update
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No. 22: Summer Solstice - Fall Equinox 1988
Plants and People of the Sonoran Desert: A New Trail at the Desert Botanical Garden  ·  Seed Savers in Their Own Right: Bob Sullivan and Judy Goettert  ·  1987-88 Annual Report  ·  Environment and Edible Flora of the Cocopa  ·  Second Annual Fiesta de los Chiles  ·  Genetic Vulnerability, Genetic Erosion and How to Avoid Them  ·  Research on Low-Input Desert Agriculture  ·  Book Reviews  ·  Fall-Winter Crops for Low Desert Areas  ·  Collection Sites Map  ·  Growout Farm Report  ·  Germination Requirements for Wild Crop Relatives  ·  The Importance of Wild Genetic Resources in Sunflower Breeding  ·  Some Like 'Em Hot!  ·  Biotechnology and Indigo Dye  ·  Mexican Drought Update
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No. 21: Spring Equinox 1988
Pollination for the Seed Savers  ·  Seed Savers in Their Own Right: Kathryn Michel  ·  Gardening the Zuni Way  ·  Feast of San Juan Celebration  ·  Board of Directors Adds Members  ·  Cholla Bud Workshop  ·  New National Focus Brewing on Indian Agriculture  ·  Nurturing Diversity: Indian Information Center  ·  Drought  ·  Garden News  ·  Land Fund Update  ·  Review of The New Seed-Starters Handbook
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SN 104 2009
No. 20: Winter Solstice 1987
Preparing for a Spring-Summer Garden in the Low Desert  ·  Seed Savers in Their Own Right: Phyllis Hogan  ·  Land Fund Drive Begun to Ease Native Seeds/SEARCH's Workspace Crunch  ·  "Land Fund" An Early Success  ·  Native Crop Conservation Featured in Two National Symposia in March  ·  Traveling Slide Show Update  ·  Chile Fiesta Great Success  ·  New Growout Farm  ·  Farming Like the Senecas  ·  Garden Experiences  ·  Tepary Beans in Old World Desert Cuisine  ·  Review of The Herb Garden Cookbook
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No. 19: Fall Equinox 1987
Native Foods of Desert Peoples Found to Control Diabetes  ·  Seed Savers in Their Own Right: Maude Andrews and Alice Lopez  ·  New Gardeners  ·  La Fiesta de los Chiles  ·  Fall Garden Update  ·  Wild Rice  ·  Native Seeds Experimental Results  ·  A Visit to Seed Savers Exchange's New Farm  ·  From Amaranth Grain to Breakfast Bars  ·  Book Reviews
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SN 104 2009
No. 18: Summer Solstice 1987
Recent New Mexico Collections  ·  Seed Savers in Their Own Right: Agricultural Resources Project, Salt River Indian Reservation  ·  1986-87 Annual Report  ·  Seed Stratification  ·  Floods  ·  Rural Outreach  ·  Enchilada Recipes  ·  Native American Agriculture at DQ University  ·  Book Reviews
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SN 104 2009
No. 17: Spring Equinox 1987
Spring Gathering at Esperero Canyon  ·  Seed Savers in Their Own Right: Homer Owens  ·  Growers Network Update  ·  Collecting Crop Seeds on the White Mountain Apache Reservation  ·  Rural Outreach Program  ·  Seed Dormancy  ·  Native Crops are Good Food  ·  Meet Our Staff  ·  Review of Altered Harvest: Agriculture, Genetics, and the Fate of the World's Food Supply  ·  Near Extinct Gourd Refound
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SN 104 2009
No. 16: Winter Solstice 1986
San Carlos Apache Native Crops Collected  ·  Seed Savers in Their Own Right: Erv Wilson  ·  Oscar Will's Seeds: Learning from Agricultural History  ·  North American Fruit Explorers  ·  Tohono Chul's Ethnobotanical Garden  ·  Cucurbit Viruses in the Southwest  ·  Book Reviews  ·  Woody's Corn Bread
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SN 104 2009
No. 15: Fall Equinox 1986
Fall Harvest Seed Saving  ·  Interview of Rita Buchanan  ·  Nutricomp: A Nutritional Outreach Project  ·  Cultivated Crops of the Yuman Tribes  ·  When the Rains Don't Come  ·  Work Party Success!  ·  Mexican Bookshelf on Genetic Resources  ·  Corn Smut  ·  Cooking Winter Squash
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SN 104 2009
No. 14: Summer Solstice 1986
Dyeing Yarn with Homegrown Indigo  ·  Office Notes  ·  Jean Andrews  ·  1986 Annual Report: A Bountiful Harvest  ·  Seeds of Life  ·  We Get Letters!  ·  Update on Grassroots-USDA Collaboration  ·  Burros or Burritos?  ·  Garden Report  ·  Cookery Know-How
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No. 13: Spring Equinox 1986
How is Land Degradation Affecting Plants?  ·  Book Reviews  ·  Grow Your Corn and Eat It Too  ·  Boxes on a Low Budget
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SN 104 2009
No. 12: Winter Solstice 1985
Sonoran Desert Farming in the Past  ·  Field Collecting the Plant Diversity of a Tepehuan Indian Village  ·  Book Donations in Memory of Gabriel Williams  ·  Book Reviews  ·  Staff Changes  ·  SEARCH Opens Office at Tucson Botanical Gardens  ·  Highlights of Seed Conference, October, 1985
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No. 11: Fall Equinox 1985
New Garden Takes Shape at Tucson Botanical Gardens  ·  Interesting Characteristics Noted for Mt. Pima Yellow Sweetcorn  ·  Seed Saverrs in Their Own Right  ·  Putting Teparies Back on the Map  ·  Book Reviews  ·  Garden Seed Inventory Revisited  ·  SEARCH Recognized by Governor's Commission
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SN 104 2009
No. 10: Summer Solstice 1985
Tumamoc Globe-berry: the Sonoran Desert's Endangered Cucurbit  ·  1985 Annual Report: Growth and New Activities  ·  Seed Conference  ·  Book Reviews  ·  Dean Portman - Spring Intern  ·  Tepary Workshop
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No. 9: Spring Equinox 1985
New Seeds for Spring  ·  Book Reviews  ·  Seed Savers in Their Own Right  ·  Is Sonoran Panic Grass Endangered?  ·  Linda Parker is Winter Intern  ·  Survey Points to Interest in Native Gardening
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No. 8: Winter Solstice 1984
In Hot Pursuit of Wild Chiles  ·  Native Seeds/SEARCH is in Focus  ·  I'Itoi's Mystery Onion  ·  Book Reviews  ·  Seed Savers in Their Own Right  ·  Wild Beans and Useful Genes  ·  Native Foods Analysed  ·  Internship News
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No. 7: Fall Equinox 1984
In Situ Conservation of Native Crop Diversity in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands  ·  Mexicans Receive Seed Collection  ·  Seedkeepers in Their Own Right  ·  Review of El Fin del Principio  ·  Keeping Squash Seedstocks Pure  ·  The Squash that Ate New York  ·  SEARCH Recognized for In Situ Conservation  ·  New Grant for Native Corn Collection
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No. 6: Summer Solstice 1984
Desert Adapted Criollo Cattle  ·  Book Reviews  ·  We've Come Full Circle: Native Seeds/SEARCH Annual Report 1983-1984  ·  Seedkeepers in Their Own Right  ·  SEARCH is Looking For a Few Good Understudies  ·  Safekeeping Mexican Genetic Resources
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SN 104 2009
No. 5: Spring Equinox 1984
Board of Advisors to NS/S Initiated  ·  Sonoran Panicgrass: Does It Merit U.S. Endangered Species Status?  ·  Seedkeepers in Their Own Right  ·  Book Reviews  ·  Native Food Nutrition Update  ·  New Sprout Arrives
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SN 104 2009
No. 4: Winter Solstice 1983
We're Tax Exempt!... and Other Good News  ·  Historic Prescott Dry Farm Yields Suggest Future Opportunities  ·  Saving Seeds and Breeds of AmerIndian Heritage  ·  Book Review  ·  Native Blue Corn Cookery Know-How  ·  Seedkeepers in Their Own Right  ·  Publications Reviewed
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No. 3: Fall Equinox 1983
Conserving Beans - From the FAO to the Mountains of Mexico  ·  Tucson Goes Native for San Juan  ·  Seedkeepers in Their Own Right  ·  Volunteers  ·  Recent Writings by NS/SEARCHers  ·  Book Reviews  ·  Wild Chile Search  ·  Winter Crops Available
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SN 104 2009
No. 2: Summer Solstice 1983
Wild Relatives of Crops in the Southwest  ·  Tarahumara Indian Country Explored for Seeds  ·  Native Seeds/SEARCH Update  ·  Seedkeepers in Their Own Right  ·  Book Reviews  ·  Price Increases of Native Foods: Will They Rise Out of Reach?  ·  Keeping Alive Food Options in Deserts: Native Seeds/SEARCH
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No. 1: Spring Equinox 1983
Native Seeds/SEARCH Projects  ·  Seed-Keepers in Their Own Right  ·  Book Reviews
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What Came Before... Meals for Millions Southwest Traditional Crop Conservancy Garden and Seed Bank
 
Introduction  ·  Purpose  ·  Seed Distribution Policy  ·  Seeds Available  ·  Exchange Corner  ·  Seed Companies Providing Southwest Traditional Crop Seeds  ·  Increase Garden  ·  Documenting the Value of Native Crop Diversity  ·  Mahina's Journal Notes on Germination, Flowering and Harvest Times of Desert Crops  ·  Cooking and Recipes  ·  Nutrition and Tradition: Where Do Seeds Fit In?  ·  New Additions to Our Seed Collections  ·  Spreading the Word  ·  Publications Available  ·  Acknowledgements
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