AHA is a community of desert borderlands eaters, cooks, planters, harvesters and builders with 30+ years of community education and celebration, rooted in Tucson permaculture and desert foods organizations, growing love and care of regenerative places.
Jill came to the market on June 25th with a Saguaro fruit edible display that included chocolate-dipped jun (the Tohono O’odham name for desert-dried saguaro fruit), dusted with an assortmernt of chia, hemp, Mano Y Metate Mole powders, crushed desert willow flowers, and mesquite flour:
Jill Lorenzini has been doing Santa Cruz River Farmers Market demos for the Community Food Bank as an educational project of Desert Harvesters, with a seasonal focus on bean trees (palo verde, ironwood and mesquite).