cooking

For more than 25 years Native Seeds/SEARCH has worked to preserve the seeds of crops grown in the Southwest. For just as long, volunteers and staff have enjoyed sharing meals, food preparation tips and recipes.

All recipes include ingredients that you can buy at our store

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gardening

Successful gardening depends on utilizing what nature has provided. While there are basic tenets that hold regardless of the environment in which you’re gardening, certain approaches and techniques are unique to different environments. What it takes to garden successfully in Seattle differs from Boston, which differs from Tucson. If you’re familiar with gardening in humid climates, you will quickly discover `that many of those practices no longer work well in the desert.

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seed saving

At one time, seed saving was a necessity. Gardeners and farmers carefully selected and stored the best seeds from their harvests, ensuring they had seed for planting in subsequent years. The knowledge of pollination, purity, harvesting and storage of seeds was all part of survival and learned within the family and community.

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