In the northern region of the Sonoran Desert, surrounded by five mountain ranges and 350 days of sunshine, lies Tucson where native edible plants grow. The saguaro, barrel and nopal cacti are staples ...

PHOENIX — The Sonoran Desert is clearly distinct by its dry, hot, and prickly appearance but did you know most of it is edible? “I just want to connect to the native plants around us,” said Kelly ...

Niethammer, 67, has been researching edible desert plants for more than 40 years. In "Cooking the Wild Southwest," she recounts her introduction to native foods and tracking down two Tohono O'odham ...

Tagging along with my daughter, Ann, to her conference in Palm Desert, Calif., last week was part of my vacation. The really, really hot part. “The surface of the sun” was what Ann called it. Yet the ...

Some see the Sonoran Desert as a harsh wasteland, but Paul "Crash" Marusich sees it as a garden of nutritional and medicinal wonder. And, as an Arizona native, the interpretive ranger has exactly one ...

When you think of an indoor garden, your mind likely goes to abundant tropical plants offering plenty of ornamental value. But, this isn't the only possibility for growing plants indoors. There are ...

Jean Groen and Don Wells are kind of like Sonny and Cher - if Sonny and Cher lived in Apache Junction and did comedy bits about edible desert plants. The pair, who have written three books about foods ...

There is a trend of growing plants that take a lot of care to flourish in the desert. These include tropical or subtropical plants for permaculture “food forests” like avocado and sapote and tender ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Young volunteers with Socially Equal Energy Efficient Development, also known as SEEED, are hoping to make a difference in Knoxville by planting an edible forest to serve local ...

This is the latest in a series we call Plant PPL, where we interview people of color in the plant world. If you have any suggestions for PPL to include in our series, tag us on Instagram ...

From the archive: This story originally published in The Desert Sun in 2019. On this south-facing slope in Morongo Valley there is a forest of very old Yucca schidigera, known as the Mojave yucca.