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 Paul Nabhan at Harlan II Symposium lecture - UC Davis
      UC Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis CA 95616
      September 16, 2008, 7:00 pm

      Gary Nabhan will deliver the evening keynote at the Harlan II Symposium at UC-Davis on September 16th. Call 530-754-8507 for more information.

    • Gary Nabhan at Rabelais Books/Slow Food Portland event
      Space Gallery, 538 Congress Street, Portland ME 04101
      September 19, 2008, 7:00 pm

      Gary Nabhan will speak at Space Gallery in Portland, Maine, sponsored by Rabelais Books and Slow Food Portland, on Friday, September 19th at 7:00 pm. Call 207-774-1044 to learn more.

    • Gary Paul Nabhan keynote at Common Ground Country Fair
      294 Crosby Brook Road, Unity ME 04988
      September 21, 2008, 9:00 am

      Gary will deliver the final keynote speech at the Common Ground Country Fair in Unity, Maine. Call 207-568-4142 to learn more.

    • Gary Nabhan at Horizon Books
      243 E. Front St., Traverse City MI 49684
      October 12, 2008, 7:00 pm

      Gary Nabhan will speak at Horizon Books in Traverse City, Michigan on October 12th at 7:00 pm. Call (231) 946-7290 to learn more.

    • Gary Paul Nabhan at Bioneers Conference thru 10/19
      Marin Center, 3501 Civic Center Dr, San Rafael CA 94903
      October 17, 2008, 10:00 am

      Gary will speak on his book, Renewing America's Food Traditions, at the Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, CA.

    • Gary Nabhan at Traditional Knowledge & Botany Symposium
      Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis MO
      November 7, 2008, 9:00 am

      Gary Nabhan will deliver a lecture at the Traditional Knowledge and Botany Symposium held at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, Missouri from November 7-8, 2008. Please call 1-800-642-8842 to learn more.

    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.