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Your Southeast Pinal County Master Gardeners (formally SaddleBrooke/SaddleBrooke Ranch Master Gardeners) are pleased to invite you to attend “Mission Garden: A Living Agricultural Heritage Museum”, presented by Kendall Kroesen, PhD, Community Outreach Coordinator at the Mission Garden on Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at 1:00 pm. This presentation will be at the DesertView Performing Arts Center, 39900 Clubhouse Dr., Tucson, AZ
Kendal will share how Mission Garden recreates over 4,100 years of local agriculture on the historic site considered to be the birthplace of Tucson. Mission Garden is a living agricultural museum of Sonoran Desert-adapted heritage fruit trees, traditional local heirloom crops and edible native plants.
The presentation will describe the history of the location, the many cultures that have farmed and gardened there, and the gardens plots that depict what different groups planted throughout all the seasons of the year. Kendal will also cover plans for additional garden plots and finish with some important lessons learned over the 12 years the recreated garden has been in existence.
Mission Garden’s multi-generational, outdoor, hands-on educational setting encourages interactive exchange of traditional knowledge gathered from diverse community elders and historical documents. By exclusively growing heritage crops and heirloom trees, they aspire to test, refine, and evaluate the practical wisdom of long-term arid-adapted agricultural practices.
Questions contact: diliegghio@arizona.edu