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How to Clean Gourds

How to Clean Gourds

| Laura Neff
Gourds are cleaned depending on what the use is to be – artistic crafts, food/water, birdhouse, rattle, etc. If it's intended for food/drinking the cleaning of the gourd must be precise to ensure that any mold or fungus is removed and disinfected. Gourds come in a diversity of sizes and shapes. ...
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Recipe: Spicy Pumpkin Cake

Recipe: Spicy Pumpkin Cake

| Melissa Kruse-Peeples
Wowza! We have been enjoying some spicy pumpkin cake made by our amazing volunteer Esther. She used squash from Rancho Marques variety and added some Habenero powder for some extra kick. Yummy!
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Favorite Staff Varieties

Favorite Staff Varieties

| Betsy Armstrong
Published March 2, 2017. By Melissa Kruse-Peeple, Education Coordinator Spring is here! Or at least coming soon for some parts of the country. At Native Seeds/SEARCH our staff definitely love all seeds but we have a few favorites that are essentials in our gardens. In this article a few staff mem...
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Happy 5th Anniversary to Tucson Seed Libraries

Happy 5th Anniversary to Tucson Seed Libraries

| Store Staff
Article published by Melissa Barrow, NS/S Retail and Membership Associate, published January 31, 2017. In January 2012, Native Seeds/SEARCH started the first seed library in Arizona, quickly followed by the Pima County Public Library. January and February 2017 mark the 5th year anniversaries for ...
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Proposed Monsanto Development in Pima County

Proposed Monsanto Development in Pima County

| Melissa Kruse-Peeples
Native Seeds/SEARCH joins with other community organizations, local farmers and food advocates that have expressed concerns about Monsanto’s plans in Pima County. While we realize that it may be difficult, if not impossible, to stop Monsanto from moving forward with its planned operation, we stro...
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Passing on Chiltepin Seeds and Stories

Passing on Chiltepin Seeds and Stories

| Sheryl Joy
One of the wonderful things about working at Native Seeds/SEARCH is that you never know when you will uncover a treasure … which is not so surprising in a storehouse full of treasures like this one! With over 1900 different seed accessions stewarded in our seed bank, most of which have multiple ...
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People and Seeds

People and Seeds

| Laura Neff
Seeds have always been with us. They appeared on the planet some 354 million years before humans. There has never been a time when humans and seeds did not interplay. They have helped us, taught us, fed us, sheltered us. Seeds have changed us; we have changed seeds.
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Tucson: UNESCO City of Gastronomy

Tucson: UNESCO City of Gastronomy

| Melissa Kruse-Peeples
In 2015, Tucson was the first city in the United States designated as a World City of Gastronomy by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Native Seeds/SEARCH celebrates this important honor and the local ingredients, cuisine, farmers, and chefs that contr...
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Updates from the Conservation Farm: Spring Growout

Updates from the Conservation Farm: Spring Growout

| Melissa Kruse-Peeples
Article by Melissa Kruse-Peeples, NS/S Education Coordinator, published May 9, 2016. As you know, at the heart of NS/S is the seed bank, where thousands of priceless, traditional crop seed varieties are protected and conserved for current and future generations. We are all indebted to the farmers...
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Farm Field Day Recap

Farm Field Day Recap

| Melissa Kruse-Peeples
Article by Melissa Kruse-Peeples, NS/S Education Coordinator, published September 27, 2016. Last weekend Native Seeds/SEARCH hosted over 100 participants at our Conservation Farm in Patagonia, Arizona for a field day. The event provided an opportunity for people to learn more about growing crops ...
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