Some Tucson residents see the mesquite pods dotting their yards this time of year and start having visions of rakes and garbage bags. Amber Arvidson sees pancakes. Arvidson, a 27-year-old hiking ...

The long, string bean-like seed pods are abundant in the Valley. They appear throughout the summer on the mesquite tree, a popular choice for suburban landscapes. For the unknowing, the pods are ...

Even if you don't intentionally grow edibles in your garden, you may have a crop to harvest pretty soon. From late June through September, pods of the mesquite tree begin to ripen into a yellow-beige ...

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Come taste the desert on Saturday, Sept. 12, at the Cooper Center for Environmental Learning’s first-ever Prickly Pear Party and Mesquite Pod Milling event. People of all ages are welcome to attend, ...

They’re underfoot in the parking lot. They’re caught in your lawnmower blades. Heck, your dog’s probably chewing on one right now. That’s right, folks. Mesquite bean season is here. But as omnipresent ...

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 ...

In the blistering haze of a sunny June morning, Mark Moody sat sweltering on his tractor, clearing a centuries-old stand of mesquite trees from his farm near Bouse, Ariz. Searching for a sustainable ...

IT had a beautiful aroma. There was something roasted, like coffee or chocolate, then a stronger smell suggesting some fruit (perhaps dried cherries -- or was that coconut?) together with a note of ...

A 5 gallon bucket of mesquite pods will yield 1 gallon of mesquite flour. Because it has no gluten, the flour should be mixed with standard flour in recipes. For example, says Schwemm, in a recipe ...