Enjoy beautiful Mission Garden with one of the garden's expert birders. We'll look for seasonal and resident birds and learn to identify some common calls and songs. The garden is a good place for beginning and intermediate birders to learn about many of the birds common to the greater Tucson area. (Click photo for event details)

$10. Join herbalist Pam Hyde-Nakai on a walk through the Michael Moore Medicinal Garden. Learn about herbs native to the greater Southwest Deserts, many of them local to our area, and the approach herbalists use to employing these herbs for good health. (Click photo for event details & ticket purchase)

$35. Jesús García, Conservation Research Associate at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, teaches about the history of agave use in Arizona and Mexico, and demonstrates how to extract and use fiber from agaves. (Click photo for event details & ticket purchase)

Archaeologists come to Mission Garden with hands-on activities for kids of all ages. Archaeology Southwest's Hands-on Archaeology program, hosted by Allen Denoyer, gives people opportunities to explore many ancient technologies and techniques. (Click photo for event details)

Mission Garden’s Maegan Lopez and Ajo CSA agriculturalist Sterling Johnson, both O’odham tribal members, discuss and demonstrate O’odham agricultural techniques and traditions. (Click photo for event details)

Enjoy beautiful Mission Garden with one of the garden's expert birders. We'll look for seasonal and resident birds and learn to identify some common calls and songs. The garden is a good place for beginning and intermediate birders to learn about many of the birds common to the greater Tucson area. (Click photo for event details)

(CLASS FULL) $35. This class will teach the best ways to harvest & dry herbs, infuse dried herbs into oils, and make the salve from our infused oils.. (Click the photo for event details & ticket purchase)

(CLASS FULL) $10. Herbalist Donna Chesner leads this walk in Mission Garden's Michael Moore Medicinal Garden, showing herbs native to the greater Southwest Deserts that are used in herbal medicine. (Click photo for event details & ticket purchase)

Archaeologists come to Mission Garden with hands-on activities for kids of all ages. Archaeology Southwest's Hands-on Archaeology program, hosted by Allen Denoyer, gives people opportunities to explore many ancient technologies and techniques. (Click photo for event details)

Mission Garden’s Maegan Lopez and Ajo CSA agriculturalist Sterling Johnson, both O’odham tribal members, discuss and demonstrate O’odham agricultural techniques and traditions. (Click photo for event details)

Enjoy beautiful Mission Garden with one of the garden's expert birders. We'll look for seasonal and resident birds and learn to identify some common calls and songs. The garden is a good place for beginning and intermediate birders to learn about many of the birds common to the greater Tucson area. (Click the photo for event details)

Our Mission Garden team gets so many questions about how we grow such healthy and productive heritage fruit trees and native trees that we’ve decided to host a workshop and answer them all. Some topics that we will cover include choosing varieties, location and planting, organic soil amendments and pest control, irrigation, pruning, and protection from extreme weather conditions. (Click on the photo to LEARN MORE & SIGN UP).

(CLASS FULL) $10. Herbalist Diane Dearmore leads this walk in Mission Garden's Michael Moore Medicinal Garden. Learn about herbs native to the greater Southwest Deserts, many of them local to our area, and the approach herbalists use to employing these herbs for good health.(Click the photo for event details & ticket purchase)

Archaeologists come to Mission Garden with hands-on activities for kids of all ages. Archaeology Southwest's Hands-on Archaeology program, hosted by Allen Denoyer, gives people opportunities to explore many ancient technologies and techniques. Old Pueblo Archaeology brings Sherry Eisner and others to help people learn pottery, rock art, and other skills. John Palacio demonstrates rock art techniques! (Click on the photo to LEARN MORE).

$10. Herbalist Linda Sherwood leads this walk in Mission Garden's Michael Moore Medicinal Garden. Learn about herbs native to the greater Southwest Deserts, many of them local to our area, and the approach herbalists use to employing these herbs for good health. (Click the photo for event details & ticket purchase)

Have you ever wondered how to grow heritage fruit trees like those at Mission Garden in your own yard? Every year in February Jesús García teaches about these trees and how to grow them from cuttings. (Click on the photo to LEARN MORE & SIGN UP).

Enjoy beautiful Mission Garden with one of the garden's expert birders. We'll look for seasonal and resident birds and learn to identify some common calls and songs. The garden is a good place for beginning and intermediate birders to learn about many of the birds common to the greater Tucson area. (Click photo for event details)

Learn to cook Chinese vegetable dishes with chef Jin Ting Gow. This class will make vegetarian dishes with the kinds of vegetables Mission Garden grows in its Chinese Garden plot. (Click photo for event details)

Archaeologists come to Mission Garden with hands-on activities for kids of all ages. Archaeology Southwest's Hands-on Archaeology program, hosted by Allen Denoyer, gives people opportunities to explore many ancient technologies and techniques. Old Pueblo Archaeology brings Sherry Eisner and others to help people learn pottery, rock art, and other skills. John Palacio demonstrates rock art techniques! (Click on the photo to LEARN MORE).

Enjoy beautiful Mission Garden with one of the garden's expert birders. We'll look for seasonal and resident birds and learn to identify some common calls and songs. The garden is a good place for beginning and intermediate birders to learn about many of the birds common to the greater Tucson area. (Click the photo for event details)

This class, taught by local food writer and jam expert Carolyn Niethammer, will cover the basics of making quince jam and using quince in other sweet and savory dishes. You will also learn origins and history of quince trees and fruit and use through the centuries. $60 (Click on the photo to LEARN MORE & SIGN UP).

Enjoy beautiful Mission Garden with one of the garden's expert birders. We'll look for seasonal and resident birds and learn to identify some common calls and songs. The garden is a good place for beginning and intermediate birders to learn about many of the birds common to the greater Tucson area. (Click the photo for event details)

(Class FULL) Herbalist and native plant expert Donna Chesner leads a small group on a walk through Mission Garden looking at medicinal foods and herbs. Learn about the medicinal plants of Mission Garden as you stroll through the garden and visit the Michael Moore Medicinal Garden plot. She will talk about uses and preparations of local and regional herbal medicines. Free with suggested donation of $5 at the entrance. Spots limited. (Click the photo for event details & sign-up)

Teacher and local food expert Jesús García teaches a technique largely unknown in the Southwest for preservation and storage of winter squash. This class provides you with two traditional O’odham squashes from Mission Garden–one prepped for use in the class and another one to take home for later practice!. You will get step-by-step instructions on how to make bichicori, and a recipe for how to use the dried squash. The class also includes tasting a dish made with bichicori. $60. The class is limited to 12 people. (Click the photo for event details & ticket link)

Archaeologists come to Mission Garden with hands-on activities for kids of all ages. Archaeology Southwest's Hands-on Archaeology program, hosted by Allen Denoyer, gives people opportunities to explore many ancient technologies and techniques. Old Pueblo Archaeology brings Sherry Eisner and others to help people learn pottery, rock art, and other skills. John Palacio demonstrates rock art techniques! (Click on the photo to LEARN MORE).

Topics include sense of place and heritage farming, site selection, soil preparation, irrigation, choosing winter crops, sourcing seeds and starts, timing, wildlife, soil fertility, planting, thinning, mulching, weeding, record keeping, crop rotations, tools and materials. (Click the photo for event details & ticket link)

Enjoy beautiful Mission Garden with one of the garden's expert birders. We'll look for seasonal and resident birds and learn to identify some common calls and songs. The garden is a good place for beginning and intermediate birders to learn about many of the birds common to the greater Tucson area. (Click the photo for event details)

(CLASS FULL) Pam Hyde-Nakai is an herbalist and native plant expert from the team that manages Mission Garden's Michael Moore Medicinal Garden. She will lead a small group on a walk looking at medicinal herbs. Learn about the medicinal plants of Mission Garden, especially the Michael Moore Medicinal Garden plot. Pam will talk about preparations of these local and regional medicinal herbs. Free with suggested donation of $5 at the entrance. Limited to 10 people. (Click the photo for event details)

Archaeologists come to Mission Garden with hands-on activities for kids of all ages. Archaeology Southwest's Hands-on Archaeology program, hosted by Allen Denoyer, gives people opportunities to explore many ancient technologies and techniques. Old Pueblo Archaeology brings Sherry Eisner and others to help people learn pottery, rock art, and other skills. John Palacio demonstrates rock art techniques! (Click on the photo to LEARN MORE).

Leisurely walk through Mission Garden looking for seasonal and resident birds with birder and Mission Garden Outreach Coordinator Kendall Kroesen. Learn some common calls and songs. The garden is a good place for beginning and intermediate birders to see birds common to the greater Tucson area. (Click the photo for event details)