Mesquite is mostly thought of as a shrubby, weedy tree that dots landscapes throughout the drier regions of the state, needing very little water or care to thrive. While some have come to value the ...

Lavender is Diné and her mother, sister and aunt still live in the Nation in Four Corners area of Arizona. “Mesquite has been culturally important to more than 20 tribes in Arizona alone,” says ...

Mesquite seedpods will produce gluten free flour. The desert surprises me on almost a daily basis. I originally came from a rainy climate where the soil was fertile, and everything seemed to grow on ...

Q: We bought what we believe to be an Arizona mesquite around April of last year. It was transplanted right away and watered about once a week, as the nursery worker said it didn’t need much water.

Each summer, Dana Helfer of Tucson collects the long, yellowish string-bean-like pods produced by mesquite trees on her property and around her neighborhood. And each fall, she has the sweet-tasting ...

Chase Choate beamed as he explained the plan for the morning. The goal was to plant 700 trees before noon. The cottonwoods and willows, Choate said, would be pretty straightforward. The honey mesquite ...

Ranch manager Farron Sultemeier calls the mesquite a blessing and a curse. The San Antonio Express-News reports this most iconic of Texas trees is a blessing because the beans provide late summer feed ...