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
Series
Books
Cultures of Habitat
On Nature, Culture, and Story
1997
Renewing America's Food Traditions
Saving and Savoring the Continent's Most Endangered Foods
2008
Where Our Food Comes From
Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine
2008
The Geography of Childhood
Why Children Need Wild Places
1994
Why Some Like It Hot
Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity
2004
Coming Home to Eat
The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods
2001
Gathering the Desert
1985
Desert Terroir
Exploring the Unique Flavors and Sundry Places of the Borderland
2012
The Nature of Desert Nature
Meditations on the Nature of Deserts
2020
Chasing Chiles
Hot Spots along the Pepper Trail
2011
Enduring Seeds
Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation
1989
Mesquite
An Arboreal Love Affair
2018
Food from the Radical Center
Healing Our Land and Communities
2018
Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land
Lessons from Desert Farmers on Adapting to Climate Uncertainty
2013
Food, Genes, and Culture
Eating Right for Your Origins
2013
Cumin, Camels, and Caravans
A Spice Odyssey
2013
Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves
1993
Arab/American
Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts
2008
Cross-Pollinations
The Marriage of Science and Poetry
2004
The Desert Smells Like Rain
A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country
1982
Jesus for Farmers and Fishers
Justice for All Those Marginalized by Our Food System
2021
