Invitation From Daniel Baker

Eleventh Annual
CASCABEL MESQUITE MILLING AND LOCAL FOODS POTLUCK
November 14, 2009
9 AM to mid-afternoon
Join us at the Cascabel Community Center for a festive day of processing and eating native mesquite, plus tons of other local foods dishes.

The day begins with a mesquite pancake and waffle breakfast served from 9 to 10 AM.

Then, from 10 AM to 1 PM, we will mill your collected mesquite pods. Milling is free for non-commercial home use (Donations gratefully accepted). Cascabel Hermitage Association and Desert Harvesters will both run mills.

While the milling is going on there will be a variety of other activities to participate in:

~Listen to local musicians, Little Homestead (a family Country Band) and Keny Templeton and Ralph Waldt

~Help make mesquite flour tortillas

~Join the kid's activities: making mesquite milkshakes and painting with mesquite dye

~Prepare a dish in the earth oven which will be fired up for your use (for example, vegetables to roast, something to bake, fruit crisps or cobblers, etc.)

A native/local foods potluck will follow milling. The kitchen will be available to prepare a dish, in addition to the earth oven.

What to bring:
~the mesquite pods you have gathered, which should be CLEAN (free of gravel, twigs, etc.) and BRITTLE DRY (test for dryness by bending pods. They should nap in two)
~containers for finished mesquite meal
~hat and sunscreen
~dish for native/local foods potluck if desired

Directions:
Take 1-10 Exit 306 just east of Benson and go north on Pomerene Road.
Turn right at stop sign in Pomerene and proceed north on Cascabel Road to mile marker 23.
About halfway between mile markers 23 and 24, look on right side for the green and white county address sign #5871 and a sign for mesquite milling.
Proceed up the lane to the Cascabel Community Center.
Allow about 1 1/2 to 2 hours driving time from Tucson.

Ride Sharing:
Please contact us if you need a ride or can offer one and we'll share the information.

This event is being sponsored by the Cascabel Hermitage Association and the Cascabel Community Center.

See you there!
David and Pearl
520-212-4628