Gary Nabhan

Writer, professor, and conservationist Gary Paul Nabhan is the director of the Center for Sustainable Environments at Northern Arizona University. Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing, a Western States Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship, Nabhan is author of Coming Home to Eat, The Forgotten Pollinators, and Why Some Like it Hot, among other books.

    Gary's Upcoming Events

    • Gary Nabhan at Pima County Library
      Pima Community College, West Proscenium Theatre, Tucson AZ
      December 9, 2008, 7:00 pm

      Gary Nabhan will deliver the Lawrence Clark Powell Memorial Lecture for the Pima County Library on December 9th at 7:00 pm.

    • Gary Nabhan at Eco-Farm Conference
      Asilomar Conference Center, 800 Asilomar Ave., Pacific Grove CA 93950
      January 22, 2009, 4:00 pm

      Gary Nabhan will give a workshop presentation on his book, Renewing America's Food Traditions, at the Ecological Farming Association's annual conference on Thursday, January 22nd at 4 pm. Visit the weblink above for a complete schedule and further information.

    • Gary Nabhan at National Hispanic Cultural Center
      February 13, 2009, 1:15 pm

      On February 13th at 1:15 pm, Gary Nabhan will give a keynote speech at a symposium on Aldo Leopold and the Southwest at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque NM.

    Gary's Books

    Renewing America's Food Traditions

    Saving and Savoring the Continent's Most Endangered Foods

    Renewing America’s Food Traditions is a beautifully illustrated dramatic call to recognize, celebrate, and conserve the great diversity of foods that gives North America its distinctive culinary identity that reflects our multicultural heritage. It offers us rich natural and cultural histories as well as recipes and folk traditions associated with the rarest food plants and animals in North America. In doing so, it reminds us that what we choose to eat can either conserve or deplete the cornucopia of our continent.