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Gary Paul Nabhan is an internationally-celebrated nature writer, seed saver, conservation biologist and sustainable agriculture activist who has been called "the father of the local food movement" by Utne Reader, Mother Earth News, Carleton College and Unity College. Gary is also an orchard-keeper, wild forager and Ecumenical Franciscan brother in his hometown of Patagonia, Arizona near the Mexican border. For his writing and collaborative conservation work, he has been honored with a MacArthur "genius" award, a Southwest Book Award, the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing, the Vavilov Medal, and lifetime achievement awards from the Quivira Coalition and Society for Ethnobiology. —from the author's website
Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts
2008
Hot Spots along the Pepper Trail
2011
The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods
2001
The Marriage of Science and Poetry
2004
On Nature, Culture, and Story
1997
A Spice Odyssey
2013
Exploring the Unique Flavors and Sundry Places of the Borderland
2012
Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation
1989
Healing Our Land and Communities
2018
Eating Right for Your Origins
2013
1985
Lessons from Desert Farmers on Adapting to Climate Uncertainty
2013
Justice for All Those Marginalized by Our Food System
2021
An Arboreal Love Affair
2018
Saving and Savoring the Continent's Most Endangered Foods
2008
1993
A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country
1982
Why Children Need Wild Places
1994
Meditations on the Nature of Deserts
2020
A Pilgrimage
2026
Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine
2008
Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity
2004
