Archinect - News2013-05-19T15:05:39-04:00http://archinect.com/news/article/62049028/tasting-history-via-kino-heritage-fruit-trees-project
Tasting History via Kino Heritage Fruit Trees Project Nam Henderson2012-11-24T20:15:00-05:00>2012-11-26T09:46:04-05:00<img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/qy/qyspnvotaq8l68ec.jpg" width="514" height="343" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>In a straightforward sense, Mr. García, 44, is a Mexican ecologist. More broadly, though, he is a self-appointed emissary from the land once known as Pimería Alta, an interpreter of its culture, plants and people.</p></em><br /><br /><p>
Michael Tortorello highlighted the <a href="http://www.desertmuseum.org/center/kinofruittrees.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kino Heritage Fruit Trees Project</a>, which is the work of Jesús Manuel García Yánez’s and Robert M. Emanuel. The project is billed as "<em>a search for what Tucson used to be</em>", an attempt to recover or re-create the Spanish Mission Era orchards and gardens of Tuscon.</p>