Desert Harvesters is a volunteer -run, grassroots organization based in Tucson. We strive to promote, celebrate, and enhance, local food security and production by encouraging the planting of indigenous, food-bearing shade trees (such as the Velvet mesquite) in water -harvesting earthworks, and then educating the public on how to harvest and process the bounty. In 2003 we were able to purchase a hammermill with funds from a PRO-Neighborhoods grant. The mill is able to quickly grind mesquite pods into flour, and provide people with a fresh and nutritious local food product. We've put the mill on a trailer so we can take it to various milling events around southern Arizona.