Non-member Price: $60.00Member's Only Price: $48.00 Login
to purchase at this price.
Ethnobotanist Martha Burgess leads this exciting new summer workshop to harvest mesquite beans and process them for use in the kitchen. Participants will learn traditional harvesting methods, natural history, anthropological and nutritional significance of this vitally important tree of our desert. Then it’s off to the kitchen to try your hand at traditional mortar and pestle grinding of the pods, as well as using our modern conveniences to create mesquite flour. Learn new innovative ways to use mesquite beans and even create a few sample foods for all to share. Limit 12.
