Why Don't We Grow More Mesquite?
Mesquite, crucial to Indigenous diets for centuries, works miracles with water and needs no fertilizer.
05The CounterScience & Technology2020
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In a Southwest that's getting hotter and drier while its population steadily grows, ecologists and Indigenous food activists are increasingly touting mesquite's potential as a widespread, sustainable drylands crop and food source.
This is the apex desert food that today's suburbanites sweep from yards into trash bags, that pops unnoticed under car tires and browns like rock — while millions of people instead buy wheat flour trucked in from the Midwest.
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