Rita Herbst and Richard Felger harvesting big sacaton at the CommonsJosh Reeves and Chelsea Rittchen threshing/winnowingChelsea Rittchen, Gabe Feldman and Xavi Khera
displaying a small portion of grain from the sacaton harvestRichard Felger and Eric Lynch
bagging dried sacaton in Jane Spinti's atticAt the meeting of the Gila Native Plant Society on Friday, March 17, 2017, Richard Felger, Gabriel Feldman, Chelsea Rittchen, Xavi Khera and Adrienne Booth will present a program entitled "Gila Region Food Plants: Recipes, Tasting, and Farming for Global Sustainability". Come and enjoy New Crops taste treats while they share what they have learned through hands-on experience about farming native food crops: in agriculture, in community gardens or in your own yard. Fields of big sacaton and Apache redgrass, for instance, can be grown enclosed in multi-species food-plant hedge-rows. As Dr. Felger explains, "big sacaton, the G