Local food, and sustainability are about much more than simply growing food in one’s backyard, or in their locale. Food localization means cultivating a sense of place, of shifting the way we eat, garden and heal ourselves by reconnecting to our California heritage and diversity.  Learn how Brad Lancaster turned his barren neighborhood in Tucson, Arizona into a beautiful, thriving,native food and medicine producing, habitat providing, shaded oasis using no imported water, energy, or fertility. Learn about his work with Desert Harvesters, an amazing nonprofit that  strives to promote, celebrate and enhance local food and water security by encouraging the planting of rain along with indigenous, food bearing perennial plants which are planted within or around rainwater harvesting features.

Gain a truly local perspective with Alicia Funk, and her incredible work with The Living Wild Project. Wrap your taste buds around local, native foods and beverages! We don’t have to look to the rain forests to find exotic super-foods and medicine: They grow here! Learn about some of our local indigenous plants, their extreme health benefits, ( who knew that manzanita berries have three times the antioxidants of blueberries?! And they don’t need supplemental irrigation!) recipe ideas, and how to plant them along with the rain that will nourish them.

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