We invite you to a free workshop covering two seasonal ingredients: wild greens/'Quelites' (amaranth, purslane, lamb's quarters) and Tepary beans. Thus, we are calling this "combination-platter" workshop: Tepa-lites!
Some may simply call these greens weeds, but they are native, nutritious and delicious! Tepary beans have been collected, domesticated, and cultivated by the Tohono O'Odham people for thousands of years here in the US/Mexico borderlands. This workshop will demonstrate how to identify and grow the quelites greens as well as tepary beans, and will include delicious samplings of each!
Masks are optional for vaccinated folks, but in an outdoor workshop environment where social distancing may not be possible, wearing a mask is suggested. Thank you.
Our instructor Martha Ames Burgess is a Tucson-based naturalist, ethnobotanist, writer, artist, and alternative teacher and owner of FlordeMayoArts.com. She is an Adjunct Professor at Tohono O'odham Community College and has been involved in hands-on education at Native Seeds/SEARCH, the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, and many other Tucson environmental and educational institutions. She has served on the boards of NSS and AZ Native Plant Society, is a volunteer at the UA Desert Laboratory and Mission Garden, and was one of the original designers of the timeline gardens at Mission Garden.
This workshop will also be viewable via Zoom, and on Facebook Live!
