In Tucson, Arizona, Brandon Merchant ... can be harvested for sustenance. Velvet mesquite trees, which thrive in the arid conditions of the Sonoran Desert, produce seed pods that can be ground ...

Those heritage ingredients can be found across the state, from desert plains to ... commonly detected by Arizona diners is mesquite, the wood of the mesquite tree which has been used for ...

From late June through September, pods of the mesquite ... from the Desert Harvesters. Saguaro fruit is harvested in early summer. Harvesting classes are planned at the Arizona-Sonora Desert ...

The mesquite tree is another common desert plant in North America that can be found in the deserts of Arizona, California, and Mexico. Commonly found in the desert regions of North America is the ...

Other species of mesquite from South America are sometimes grown in warmer regions such as south Texas and the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. But these trees are not reliably cold hardy in North Texas.

A mile and a half north of the busy Browns Ranch trailhead, a gnarled mesquite tree grows through and around ... ran cattle in the mountainous desert space before being abandoned in mid-century.

“Well, Phoenix is in a desert,” you say ... like velvet mesquite. That gives the trees a higher likelihood of surviving. Arizona’s diverse ecological landscape means its largest communities ...