The Southwest Agroforestry Action Network (SWAAN) mission: Helping people integrate trees, crops, and animals to regenerate Southwest landscapes. SWAAN’s scope of interest is forest-agricultural activities on tribal, state, federal, county, municipal and private lands in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah.  

• Agricultural producers, Tribes, ranchers, community gardeners and orchardists, permaculturalists, water harvesters, and others who produce food for themselves.
•  Representatives of government agencies, cooperative extension, universities, and nonprofit organizations who support sustainable solutions for agriculture, forestry, and communities through their programs.  
•  People interested in community food forests and forest-agricultural activities including alley cropping, forest farming, riparian forest buffers, silvopasture, windbreaks, and shelterbelts.  

Tucson, Arizona: Southwest Agroforestry Challenges and Best Practice Solutions  

AGENDA OVERVIEW

 Keynote Speakers and Presentations

• Morning Keynote – Kathleen Merrigan, Director, Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems, Arizona State University
• Afternoon Keynote – Brad Lancaster, Author, Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond
• The USDA National Agroforestry Center and SWAAN
• Technical and financial assistance for agroforestry activities
• Challenges and best-practice solutions for agroforestry in the southwest
• Urban applications, including water harvesting and food forests

Field Trips

• Agroforestry sites in Sonoita and Wilcox
• Dunbar Spring neighborhood tree planting project, Tucson
• Mission Garden, a modern re-creation of 4000 years of agriculture, Tucson

SWAAN’s annual business meeting