Food & Agriculture

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Farmers Markets in the Tucson Area

Find fresh, locally grown produce year round, every day of the week.

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Affiliated Organizations

  • Baja Arizona Sustainable Agriculture
    "a 501c3 non-profit organization working to increase local sustainable food production and marketing in southern Arizona."
  • Canelo Project
    "A small non-profit dedicated to the exploration and education of natural, local and artistic building techniques Workshops in straw bale, earthen and lime plasters...
  • Center for Sustainable Environments
    "CSE is a national leader in university-based sustainability science" (Northern Arizona University)
  • Community Food Security Center
    "... supporting community organizations, schools and individuals in becoming more food secure through education, advocacy, food production and desert gardening, and providing healthy food access through markets."
  • Community Gardens of Tucson
  • Desert Harvesters
    Desert Harvesters is a volunteer -run, grassroots organization based in Tucson. We strive to promote, celebrate, and enhance, local food security and production by encouraging the planting of indigenous, food-bearing shade trees (such as the Velvet mesqui
  • Food Conspiracy Co-op
  • Iskashitaa Refugee Harvesting Network
    “We empower refugees by creating opportunities to use their knowledge and skills from Africa to help their families and their own community and to better integrate with the larger Tucson community while gaining life skills that serve them in America.”
  • Slow Food Tucson
    This group holds events exploring the joys of locally-produced--and savored--foods and beverages.
  • Sonoran Kitchen Gardens
    "We started Sonoran Kitchen Gardens to make sure every school in the Sonoran bioregion has a drylands kitchen garden linked into our local food economy."
  • Tucson Area Farmers Markets
  • Tucson Botanical Garden
  • Tucson Community Food Bank

Other Local Organizations

  • Community Food Security Center
    "... supporting community organizations, schools and individuals in becoming more food secure through education, advocacy, food production and desert gardening, and providing healthy food access through markets."
  • Sonoran Kitchen Gardens
    "We started Sonoran Kitchen Gardens to make sure every school in the Sonoran bioregion has a drylands kitchen garden linked into our local food economy."
  • Sustainable Seafood Program - Desert Museum
    Resources on sustainable seafood choices (including a downloadable wallet card), with a special focus on the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez).

Local Businesses

Other Resources

  • Green Drinks Tucson
    Every month people who work in the environmental field meet up for a drink at informal sessions around the world known as Green Drinks.

Global Organizations

  • Community Solution
    Community Service, Inc. (CSI), founded in 1940, is a non-profit organization that educates on the benefits and values of small local community living. We envision a world where people live sustainably and cooperatively in local communities which are diver
  • Farm & Garden
    Farm & Garden is an online magazine and community website. We publish news, information and resources related to living in a sustainable fashion with a focus on food, flowers, fiber and families. We publish monthly columns in addition to continually e

Local Discussion Groups

  • Green Drinks Tucson
    Every month people who work in the environmental field meet up for a drink at informal sessions around the world known as Green Drinks.
  • Tucson Permaculture discussion group
    Getting started with projects like growing food, harvesting rainwater, harnessing solar energy? This email discussion group is a good place to post questions, share knowledge, and make connections.

Articles

  • What to do about world food crisis?
    (From the Desmoines Register) Food shortages are suddenly front-page news, but they are not new. Hundreds of millions of people were left starving or malnourished last year, and this has been going on for decades. The only change is that it has become more difficult for the institutions that control...
  • Out of the Yard and Onto the Fork
    In the Garden, By ANNE RAVER, New York Times, April 17, 2008 MY peas are coming up - sugar snaps and snow peas - and the seeds I scattered out in my cold frame a month ago are now a blanket of baby greens. A few mornings ago, while weeding, I popped a tiny bok choy seedling into my mouth and let its...
  • Have excess fruit or vegetables on your property?
    Either donate your excess grown produce OR simply have your resource added to the database. Iskash*taa is an inter-generational group of refugees from Africa and Tucsonan volunteers harvesting approximately 20,000 lbs. of fruits and vegetables each year from backyards and local farms and redistributing...
  • Farmers Markets in the Tucson Area
    Farmers Markets (in the Tucson Area) Sunday - Civano Artisans and Farmers Market - Civano Nursery, 5301 S. Houghton Road. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sundays. 248-9218. - St. Philip's Plaza Farmers Market - 4280 N. Campbell Ave. 8 a.m.-noon Sundays. 918-9811. Tuesday - Community Food Bank Farmers Market, 3003 S...
  • Where to Water
    By Katherine Kizilos, published December 5, 2007 by The Age (Australia) The inventor of permaculture is among those calling for backyard farmers to be freed from water restrictions. Katherine Kizilos reports. In a drought year, during an era of climate change, what does it mean to be a responsible...
  • Invasive, Indeed
    One species-Homo sapiens-consumes nearly a quarter of Earth's natural productivity by Sid Perkins Science News, Oct. 13, 2007, Vol 172, #15, pg 235 Some people live lightly on the land: Bedouin clans roam the deserts of the Middle East and North Africa; small groups of indigenous people follow reindeer...
  • Tucson Area Farmers Markets
    Sunday Civano Artisans and Farmers Market - Civano Nursery, 5301 S. Houghton Road. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sundays. 248-9218. St. Philip's Plaza Farmers Market - 4280 N. Campbell Ave. 8 a.m.-noon Sundays. 918-9811. Tuesday Community Food Bank Farmers Market, 3003 S. Country Club Road. 8 a.m.-noon Tuesdays....
  • Farm Bill 2007: Why it matters: Small farms are good for our health, economy
    Guest Opinion by Lindianne Sarno Why should Tucson's citizenry care about local food production? Let's start with the scary fact that virtually all of the food we eat travels an average of 1,500 miles to get to our tables in Tucson, according to the USDA. Tucson's food supply is vulnerable to events...
  • Corn Can't Solve Our Problem
    The world has come full circle. A century ago our first transportation biofuels -- the hay and oats fed to our horses -- were replaced by gasoline. Today, ethanol from corn and biodiesel from soybeans have begun edging out gasoline and diesel. This has been hailed as an overwhelmingly positive development...
  • Ten Ways to Prepare for a Post-Oil Society
    Ten Ways to Prepare for a Post-Oil Society By James Howard Kunstler, Kunstler.com. Posted February 10, 2007. The best way to feel hopeful about our looming energy crisis is to get active now and prepare for living arrangements in a post-oil society. EnviroHealth RSS Feed Editor's Note: James Howard...