Mission Garden

April 1, 2022
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Mission Garden entrance photo

From Friends of Tucson's Birthplace

Friends of Tucson’s Birthplace is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization focused on the re-creation of Tucson’s Birthplace at the base of Sentinel Peak (‘A’ Mountain) known as Tucson Origins Heritage Park (TOHP). Design and initial construction of TOHP was funded by Rio Nuevo (a special taxation district). TOHP Projects include: Mission Garden, Mission San Agustín, S-cuk Son Native Area, Carrillo House, Festival Area. Our mission is to preserve, honor, protect, restore, re-create and promote the cultural heritages and historic landscapes of Tucson’s Birthplace at the foot of Sentinel Peak.

Mission Garden is one of the key projects of Friends of Tucson's Birthplace. Mission Garden’s multi-generational, outdoor, hands-on educational setting encourages interactive exchange of traditional knowledge gathered from diverse community elders and historical documents. By exclusively growing heritage crops and heirloom trees, we aspire to test, refine, and evaluate the practical wisdom of long-term arid-adapted agricultural practices. The basis of our educational template is to exchange and promote agricultural techniques that combine traditional knowledge with modern science. Mission Garden’s primary mission is to preserve, transmit and revive the region’s rich agricultural heritage by growing garden plots representative of more than 4000 years of continuous cultivation in the Tucson Basin.

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  • How your organization/business supports the priorities of Food Justice and Sustainability

Mission Garden demonstrates not only the traditional agriculture of our region but promotes the use of traditional, drought-adapted crops in backyard gardens and local organic farms. We are developing classes, demonstrations and other events that teach people about traditional crops. In addition, Friends of Tucson's Birthplace is developing plans for Tomorrow's Garden, our plot that will explicitly combine traditional knowledge with new techniques and technologies to create a model of how local gardening can adapt to future climatic conditions. 

  • Ideas for the UA community members to improve support food access, recipes, shopping tips, policy advocating, etc.

Organizations involved in supporting food justice and local food production should coordinate efforts to create and maintain local collaborative systems of education about gardening, farming, distribution and preparation of healthy food. 

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www.missiongarden.org

Links to our Facebook and Instagram pages, and YouTube channel, are available at the top of our home page. 
 
 
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