FREE: Learn about the incredible edible desert: How to identify and harvest beans from the paloverde, mesquite, and ironwood trees, and harvesting weeds and cactus fruits! This event is hosted by the Old Town Scottsdale Farmers Market through the Original Arizona speaker series of Chmachyakyakya Kurikuri. Presentation from 10-10:45 includes the audience making mesquite bean flour! I'll answer questions and you can buy products such as prickly pear juice, weed chips, paloverde beans, and herbal tea until 12:30. WHEN: Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 10 AM – 12:30 PM WHERE: The booth where I'm speaking is in the SW corner of the Farmers Market. This event is hosted by the Old Town Scottsdale Farmers Market through the Original Arizona speaker series of Chmachyakyakya Kurikuri. The booth has banners that say "Original Arizona" and "Chmachyakyakya." Old Town Farmers Market in Scottsdale E 1st St at N Brown Ave, Scottsdale, Arizona 85251 More details: http://www.facebook.com/events/809799202730495/ SAMPLE of what you'll be learning and tasting from Cactus Kelly:
Any type of mesquite tree bean is edible. Just take a bite around June when they've dried from green to tan and see if they taste sweet. Some beans are chalky and others are sweet. Make sure the pods taste very sweet, break up the pods into smaller pieces, put up to 2" high's worth in a Vitamix blender, Bullet blender, or coffee grinder, blend it for 30 seconds or until all is made into a meal; put in a cone-shaped grinder and push the meal through with a metate grinder stick like you see in the photo above. Kids love to do this! Keep your mesquite flour in the freezer, as it's sometimes a little moist and you don't want it to molder. Before making the flour: Dry out the mesquite beans first in the back window of your car with the windows down a little in the summer heat. A bug was laid with every flower on the catkin so it's full of bugs which you can't taste and won't hurt you. They will fly out as the bean dries. They will fly out of your car. More little green flying insects will keep flying out for a year if you keep them in heat or room temp. Freeze them after drying to freeze the bugs and keep the beans from moldering. Keep the leftover gritty pieces from making the flour. This is called the "mash." Add water and boil it to make a delicious mesquite tea. The more mash you use and the longer you steep it, the stronger and sweeter it tastes. Add cinnamon if you'd like. FREE: Learn about the incredible edible desert: How to identify and harvest beans from the paloverde, mesquite, and ironwood trees, and harvesting weeds and cactus fruits! This event is hosted by the Old Town Scottsdale Farmers Market through the Original Arizona speaker series of Chmachyakyakya Kurikuri. Presentation from 10-10:45 includes the audience making mesquite bean flour! I'll answer questions and you can buy products such as prickly pear juice, weed chips, paloverde beans, and herbal tea until 12:30. WHEN: Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 10 AM – 12:30 PM WHERE: The booth where I'll be presenting is in the SW corner of the Farmers Market. This event is hosted by the Old Town Scottsdale Farmers Market through the Original Arizona speaker series of Chmachyakyakya Kurikuri. The booth has banners that say "Original Arizona" and "Chmachyakyakya." Old Town Farmers Market in Scottsdale: E 1st St at N Brown Ave, Scottsdale, Arizona 85251 More details: http://www.facebook.com/events/809799202730495/
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