Pueblos del Maíz in the Arizona-Sonora Borderland – BorderLore
BorderLore – “On a Friday morning in late April, Duran Andrews drives a “four seater,” or John Deere gator, around the perimeter of San Xavier Cooperative Farm (SXCF), an 823-acre farm just south of Tucson, Arizona. In a few days Andrews and his team will put in the season’s first 60-day corn, a traditional crop the Tohono O’odham people have long planted in dry soils of the Sonoran Desert.
“It grows in 60 days regardless of weather or other stress events, which shows you the resilience it has,” Andrews says.
This is the same resilience the O’odham people themselves have, says Patricia Cerna, a member of both the Tohono O’odham Nation and the SXCF board of directors, along for the ride.”