# Gary Paul Nabhan **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [January 16, 2023, 2:15am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/gary-paul-nabhan/597 "2023-01-16T02:15:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WilliamGrowsTomatoes](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/goingtoseed.discourse.group/williamgrowstomatoes/32/173_2.png) [@WilliamGrowsTomatoes](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/WilliamGrowsTomatoes)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 2:15am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/gary-paul-nabhan/597/1 "2023-01-16T02:15:49Z")
One of my early influences in gardening is a guy named Gary Paul Nabhan. He writes a lot of books. I think I read Enduring Seeds first maybe around 1999 [https://www.amazon.com/Enduring-Seeds-American-Agriculture-Conservation/dp/0816522596/](https://www.amazon.com/Enduring-Seeds-American-Agriculture-Conservation/dp/0816522596/) In Enduring seeds there is even a story from Eastern MT and old varieties of the Mandan Arikara and Hidatsa peoples. Then there is The Desert Smells Like Rain [https://www.amazon.com/Desert-Smells-Like-Rain-Naturalist/dp/0865470502/](https://www.amazon.com/Desert-Smells-Like-Rain-Naturalist/dp/0865470502/) > **[Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine:...](https://www.amazon.com/Where-Our-Food-Comes-Retracing/dp/1610910036)** > > Buy Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders In where our food comes from Gary talks about the famous Russian botanist who traveled the world looking for crop diversity to prevent future famines. > **[Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land: Lessons from Desert Farmers on Adapting to...](https://www.amazon.com/Growing-Food-Hotter-Drier-Land/dp/1603584536)** > > Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land: Lessons from Desert Farmers on Adapting to Climate Uncertainty \[Nabhan, Gary Paul, McKibben, Bill\] on Amazon.com. \*FREE\* shipping on qualifying offers. Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land: Lessons from Desert... In growing food in a hotter drier land Gary talks about how to adapt to climate change. Gary co-founded native seeds search [Shop – Native-Seeds-Search](https://www.nativeseeds.org/pages/shop) Where you can still find and buy historical landraces from the southwest. He talks about landraces and the historical landrace concept in a lot of his books even for Turkeys. He also talks alot about wild crop relatives and the importance of geneflow with them and how indigenous peoples allowed that. He definitely was an influence on me that led me to a similar place as Joseph even prior to 2016-2017. That along with Carol Deppe. ---
**Author:** ![Samra](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/goingtoseed.discourse.group/samra/32/21974_2.png) [@Samra](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Samra)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 4:09pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/gary-paul-nabhan/597/2 "2026-10-05T16:09:29Z")
i know this is an old post, but i’m just starting to dive into gary paul nabhan’s work. currently reading _mesquite: an arboreal love affair_; _growing food in a hotter, drier land_; and a 2010 research paper titled “desert oases as genetic refugia of heritage crops”. i’m in southernmost baja california on the edge of the sonoran desert region, so his writings are very relevant for me here. but i think that _growing food in a hotter, drier land_ could be useful to anyone experiencing a hotter, drier climate, as he himself says in the book! ---
**Author:** ![WilliamGrowsTomatoes](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/goingtoseed.discourse.group/williamgrowstomatoes/32/173_2.png) [@WilliamGrowsTomatoes](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/WilliamGrowsTomatoes)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 1:31am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/gary-paul-nabhan/597/3 "2026-10-06T01:31:02Z")
I grew my little collection of Native Seed Search tomatoes this year and attempted a few crosses with them. I think the traditional landraces Native Seed Search sells and that Gary Paul Nabhan writes about in his many books are a great basis for adaptation gardening. Especially if things get hotter and drier as gary writes about in the growing food in a hotter drier land book. Though I really think everyone should read Enduring Seeds.