Make Flour from Mesquite Pods

15202 S. 14th Pl.,Phoenix AZ 85048

08 January, 2023

Description

SOLD OUT! Please join the waitlist. Go to the red "get tickets" button and you will be directed to leave your contact information to be put on the waitlist. I plan to have another mesquite milling workshop in March 2023 or sooner if there are many on the waitlist. This is the same workshop as the one on December 17th. We will use the sweet velvet and honey mesquite beans we harvested in June to make flour. Items you will receive: You will receive a bag of desert edamame (paloverde beans), 1/2 cup of mesquite flour, and 1 cup of prickly pear/mesquite tea at the end of the workshop. You are free to take home an elephant food cutting and an aloe vera plant as well. Knowledge you will receive: You'll learn everything from how to identify a sweet mesquite tree, how and when to harvest, how to freeze, roast, and store them, how to make tea or "coffee" with them, and how to clean, prepare, and mill them for flour. What machines can you use at home to mill the beans into flour? How do you make flour manually? How do you prevent bugs and holes in the pods? How to sift the flour. What to do with the leftover "chaff" or "mash." Recipes. Nutritional content. Historical uses by local tribes. We'll sample the mesquite pod, mesquite flour, and mesquite tea. Take one-half cup of flour home, enough to do one or two baking projects. We can not help but be depressed when we look at global problems. So then we can think locally for our piece of the solution. How about getting to know trees in our yards, know which are edible, how to use them for nutritional and tasty eating, how we can plant foods native to our area so our yards become a patchwork of native ecosystems recreating what has been destroyed by human development? Yes, we can do a little something in our niche of the globe. We thank the O'odham tribes and others for their understanding of these trees and their beans, and passing on their knowledge to future generations. Fry bread is a 3 generation tradition. Mesquite cakes are a 300 generation tradition for at least the last 6,000 years. How do we know this for sure? The archaeological answer will be revealed at the workshoip. Did you know?? The landscaper/developers' South American Mesquite trees attract 6 types of pollinators. Our native Velvet or Honey or Screwbean Mesquite Trees bring in approximately 66 types of pollinators. Ten times as many types of important pollinators. Why not plant native plants in our yards? Most plant nurseries don't know about native or edible plants. Except for a select few in Tucson such as Spadefoot Nursery. They create passionate Instagram educational posts every day.