A local scientist and member of the Navajo Nation is on a mission to track down Southwest peach trees so we can learn more about how these peaches are so well-suited to grow in the desert. At a live ...

In our climate, peach varieties start flowering ... matter in the soil than we have in most of our desert soils. I would not surround this tree with rock or rock mulch on the surface of the ...

Native Americans have grown food in the desert for ages, but many tribal agricultural traditions ... and traditional foodways that could be an answer.” The Southwest peach tree is a prime example.

Peach trees that are 7 feet tall and 7 feet wide ... percent more water in July and August than they do in January in our desert climate. This increase is done primarily by watering more often ...

But in spring it’s loaded with deep pink flowers like a flowering peach tree – but needs a fraction of the irrigation. Like true peaches, this desert cousin is deciduous. The fuzzy fruit is ...

But this season his trees, which number in the hundreds ... The quandong, also known as a desert peach or native peach, grows throughout arid and semi-arid areas of Australia.