2012 Crop of Mesquite beans

Almost had a start this year, the beans are mostly green and some mature and many flowers on trees here in San Antonio.
Down by Laguna Madre mostly mature beans.
On the road from San Antonio to Laguna Madre all the crop still on trees on different degrees of maturity.
The possible investor did not agree with the many routes I propose to follow with the Total Mesquite Industrialization and believes the flour is the way to go, told him that I have no claim on the mesquite or what to do with it and that he is free to do with it as he pleases.
Being right there at the brush and not improve it at the same time that we harvest it for twigs, for wood, for the beans is not comprehended by me as this approach does not seem to be shared by the investors I visit with.

Phoenix Desert mesquite Club meeting

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UA Mesquite Bean Harvest

Are you interested in volunteering this summer for the UA Mesquite Bean Harvest? Our first harvest event is Sunday, July 1, at 7:30am. We will be meeting at the park in the Southwest corner of Mabel St. and Cherry Ave at the University of Arizona. If you plan on volunteering, please contact Ome at elondrae@email.arizona.edu! Hope to see you there! We need help picking mesquite pods a couple times every week. As volunteers, what days/times are you able to come help harvest with us?

This summer, the UA Mesquite Bean Harvest Project is excited to be partnering with the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture to design a harvest net that will more cleanly and efficiently gather the edible mesquite pods from trees scattered across campus. They started developing a design of the structure this past week. The UA Mesquite Bean Harvest Project is looking for any suggestions from harvesters that have experimented different techniques of gathering mesquite pods. This project will be experimenting with these nets on UA campus while continuing to hand-pick mesquite pods, which, with the help of local non-profit Desert Harvesters, will be ground into flour and used by UA Dining Services in delicious, gluten-free cakes, cookies, and breads. If you have any suggestions or ideas for a net structure, please contact the UA Mesquite Bean Harvest Coordinator, Ome Eichenberger, at elondrae@email.arizona.edu or call 520-621-1756. Thank you!


Mesquite workshop and tasting at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix

Enjoy one of the most abundant, tasty and nutritious local foods from the Sonoran Desert. Turn the bounty in your backyard into (Lori Adkison's famous) sweet mesquite ice cream and (Darcey Blue's) savory, gluten-free mesquite almond chia crackers. You will learn which trees to harvest and which to avoid, how and when to harvest, and how to prepare your cache for storage. After harvesting, you will learn how to process mesquite pods into flour or meal using both ancient and modern ways. Instructor Amy Valdés Schwemm. Friday, July 20, 6:30-8:30pm, OR Saturday, July 21, 8-10am. Members $55, General $68. To register, http://www.dbg.org/shop/courses/mesquite-bean-harvest-7-20-12

NEW Just added to the class:
Mano Y Metate Mesquite Mole on thin mesquite crust pizza!
Sonoran Cookies (gf mesquite shortbread cookies)