Summary
Taste the Desert Southwest! Our five and a half acres include a permaculture-designed orchard of diverse Mission-era heritage fruit and nut trees, century plants, prickly pears, olives and native desert annual crops, as well as a pond and a small nursery, all supported by water harvesting. Our high desert acreage overlooks the 60 acre Native Seeds/SEARCH farm that Gary helped found two decades ago, where guests can also volunteer. We are at 4000 feet in a ranching, grape-growing and wine-making region called the Mountain Empire just north of the border with Sonora, Mexico in Patagonia, a town of less than a thousand.
Participation in wild foraging, year-round gardening, ecological restoration, agricultural terrace building and swimming on site can be complemented by some of the greatest birdwatching, horseback riding, hiking and heritage tourism anywhere in the desert regions of North America.
Gary and Laurie have dedicated their two-room guest house for prospective visitors, whether affiliated with such programs or on their own. Gary can mentor students in desert agro-ecology, agro-biodiversity, seed-saving, water-harvesting, on-farm pollination enhancement or climate-friendly strategies for local food production. All training opportunities are customized and personalized for individuals or small groups.
Our desert permaculture-oriented experimental farm and orchard are on six acres of hills overlooking the sixty-acre Native Seeds/SEARCH floodplain farm in Patagonia, Arizona, just eighteen miles from the Mexican border. We grow the largest collection of Mission-era heirloom fruits, nuts, grains, beans, herbs and vegetables of any private farm in the U.S. Southwest. Much of it uses ancient watrer-harvesting techniques pioneered by Arab, Moorish, Hispanic and indigenous desert farmers.
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Activities & Animals
Gardening, Bird Watching, Teaching Farm, Orchards, Nature walk, Jam making/canning , Organic farming