Carolyn Niethammer
Carolyn Niethammer writes about Southwest cuisine and edible wild plants of the Southwest. She is happiest when working in her flower or vegetables gardens, out on the desert gathering wild foods, or devising new recipes for the plants she has gathered. Her five cookbooks range from a look at the way Native Americans cooked wild plants to a collection of recipes devised by the Southwest’s top restaurant and resort chefs for incorporating the area’s iconic ingredients in delicious dishes. http://www.cniethammer.com
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Martha Burgess
Mentored by Tohono O’odham Elders, Martha Ames Burgess came into ethnobotany from the inside out, learning how to harvest, prepare, store, and eat many Sonoran Desert edibles, and to make use of desert plant “first aid”. With O’odham farmers and Native Seeds/SEARCH cofounders, she was taught desert gardening with native heirlooms. Her mission is to pass along this wildcrafting and gardening knowledge so that new Baja Arizona dwellers may better appreciate and adapt to our desert home, especially in these times of climate change. She uses on site outdoor teaching, poetry and art for sharing the awareness.
Amy Valdes Schwemm
Amy Valdés Schwemm
With her family’s love of cooking as her inspiration, Amy founded Mano Y Metate, offering freshly ground mole powders for people to make and serve mole at home. She inspires Tucsonans to become Desert Harvesters, to plant and harvest native foods in their yards. At Tucson Community Supported Agriculture, she advocates for underappreciated veggies and celebrates food’s seasons. She loves to hike the deserts and forests, make plant remedios, and feed people.
Savor the Southwest: 
Hey,
I just discovered your website by looking for Tohono O’odham seeds.
Do you sell them? I used to have the variety, but my chickens got to my last batch and destroyed the roots, leaving me with no seeds. I can’t currently get them anywhere any more.
Could you sell some to me? I really liked them. (c.rafael9@protonmail.com)
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Dear Rafael, I don’t sell seeds but Native Seeds SEARCH does! Go to nativeseeds.org and click on “Buy Seeds” and you’ll see lots of varieties. Good luck. — Carolyn
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Hello SBP’s — I’m a writer of books on foods native to the United States. I’m gathering research for the 3rd book in the series, and was hoping to speak to one or more of you about these unique flavors, along with the festivals, champions, and environmental underpinnings of particular indigenous foods. I am happy to give you more info about the project (and the series, and my publisher), if you are interested. Thank you! –DN
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Hello, My name is Walter Matteson and I am producing a new travel and cooking show.
The show’s mission is to take on America’s food waste crisis and change the way people cook and think about food. We are setting out to learn from experts in cities across the country.
The structure of the show will consist of Joel Gamoran (National Chef, Sur La Table) and a local co-host putting a dinner together to inspire people to cook with scraps. Throughout the episode the co-host will introduce Joel to interesting scraps. The scraps will then be used to create a memorable dinner in an awesome location that will show people what is possible with everything we think is waste and inspiring them to share the SCRAPS message!
We are planing to do an episode in the Santa Fe (April 4th and April 5th) and I would love to get in touch about the work you are doing.
I can be reached at 646.427.6616 – wmatteson@gmail.com
Thanks,
Walter
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Hello – I am very interested in herbal medicine, have taken a few classes online, and am looking for information about wildcrafting local medicinal herbals, as well as cultivating what grows well around here in my garden. Is there someplace to contact locally here in Tucson where I can get some mentoring? Thanks!!
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Try John Slattery at Desert Tortoise Botanicals. He is extremely knowlegeable and runs frequent courses. The perfect guy to go to for what you want.
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Thank you SO SO much that is perfect!!!
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I would like to subscribe to your blog but it am having some difficulty. Can you please help?
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We have added an enchaned follow button on the main page. Hope this helps.
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please put me in contact with a professor/teacher in botony dept. who would know a good site or expert to talk to about the edible plants in Prescott/N. AZ areas that could be made into syrups
I was given your names by two different people
Dandy Wharton, who is a character in several writings who has Sonoran and Father Kino syrups already, is looking to expand into N. AZ and the plants there
My family all retired and now in Prescott.
My character Dandy Wharton has access to Saguaro due to marrying into Tohono O’Odham. Her name is Bahi, short for the name of the fruit.
My professor, who taught at both my HS and ASU was one of the top AZ history guys in AZ. Professor McBride. I did something in the past concerning AZ mining town family and he had it placed in ASU archives. (I still use some of these real people’s lives to make great characters)
I am passionate about AZ/history and through the Father Kino fruits, Sonoran desert and I hope what you folks come up with in N. AZ it can be put into writing just how rich and diverse a syrup man can make his company by just using what the land offers there.
aloha from Hawaii, Robert Beckvall
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I did much of the research for my first book “American Indian Cooking: Recipes from the Southwest” in the Prescott area. Your character could gather chokecherry, wild currants, wild grape, ground cherry, manzanita, wolfberry and wild rose to make syrup. Maybe combine several, yum. You can read more about each of these plants in the book, available from Amazon.
Carolyn Niethammer
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thank you so much. I will research each of those next week. Aloha from this little Pacific Island!
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Hello Ladies,
I am looking for vendors for our Prickly Pear Festival on August 23rd at the Holiday Inn on Palo Verde in Tucson. How can I contact you to tell you more about our non profit and what we do. I await to hear from you.
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